Role Description
As a Privacy TPM at Dropbox, your primary role is leading projects within the Privacy Engineering team, focusing on safeguarding customer privacy and ensuring legal compliance. We are committed to exceeding customer expectations by prioritizing privacy across all Dropbox products and proactively complying with privacy laws, aiming to be leaders in privacy protection. This encompasses initiatives such as enhancing data control options, managing user consent, and ensuring robust privacy measures across our internal systems, thereby prioritizing privacy in all our operations.
We are seeking a talented Technical Program Manager to join the Security PMO, contributing to critical programs related to Privacy Engineering. The ideal candidate will be highly self-motivated and adaptable to new challenges, showcasing exceptional skills in prioritization, innovative thinking, and collaboration on cross-functional initiatives.
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Responsibilities
- Lead and manage projects supporting Privacy Engineering's strategy and operations, including developing project briefs with stakeholders
- Collaborate with the Privacy Engineering leader to drive innovation, define OKRs, portfolios/roadmaps, and long-term strategies, and communicate these effectively to the team
- Engage with key stakeholders across Dropbox to understand and deliver program requirements, identifying process gaps for improvement
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to define, evaluate, and prioritize program dependencies, manage project schedules, and ensure clear communication throughout the project lifecycle
- Present program/project status and updates to senior management, ensuring on-time delivery and implementing risk mitigation strategies as needed
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience with 5+ years of related work experience
- Strong project planning skills and a proven track record of successfully launching software projects
- Project or program management experience with cross-functional teams, demonstrating collaborative, team-oriented, and consensus-building abilities
- Exceptional interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Ability to navigate competing business and technical priorities, translating business needs into technical requirements, and vice versa
- Deep understanding of organizational tech stacks to identify dependencies, risks, and mitigation strategies
- Experience working on strategic programs and fostering a remote-friendly culture
Preferred Qualifications
- Privacy experience, including an understanding of privacy laws and related technology
- Curiosity or experience with AI
- Passion for data protection and privacy
Total Rewards
US Zone 1
$175,100—$236,900 USD
US Zone 2
$157,600—$213,200 USD
US Zone 3
$140,100—$189,500 USD
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What We Do
Dropbox is a special place where we are all seeking to fulfill our mission to design a more enlightened way of working. We’re looking for innovative talent to join us on our journey. The words shared by our founders at the start of Dropbox still ring true today. Wouldn’t it be great if our working environment—and the tools we use—were designed with people’s actual needs in mind? Imagine if every minute at work were well spent—if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. This is possible, and Dropbox is connecting the dots. The nearly 3,000 Dropboxers around the world have helped make Dropbox a living workspace - the place where people come together and their ideas come to life. Our 700+ million global users have been some of our best salespeople, and they have helped us acquire customers with incredible efficiency. As a result, we reached a billion dollar revenue run rate faster than any software-as-a-service company in history. Dropbox is making the dream of a fulfilling and seamless work life a reality. We hope you’ll join us on the journey.
Why Work With Us
Our remote work model is a deliberate shift to provide greater flexibility, create a level-playing field, and evolve our culture to focus on people over places. Being a Virtual First company has allowed us to focus on our impact and effectiveness, by making investments in our employees according to what they need to do their best work.
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