Staff Content Designer

Dropbox

Remote - US: Select locations
full-time senior $159100 - $215300
Posted 4 days ago
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Summary

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Role Overview

This role is for a Staff Content Designer on the Dropbox Dash team, focusing on AI-powered products. The designer will be responsible for the end-to-end content strategy and user experience, ensuring AI features are intuitive, trustworthy, and helpful.

Key Responsibilities

Lead content strategy and UX writing for key Dropbox Dash features.
Define, evolve, and champion content principles, frameworks, and reusable patterns.
Prioritize high-impact projects and ensure content reflects user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
Ensure content adheres to best practices for localization and accessibility.
Mentor other content designers and foster knowledge sharing within the Dash Design team.
Collaborate with cross-functional partners including product designers, researchers, product managers, and engineers.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in UX writing, content design, or related fields.
Proven expertise in UX writing, content strategy, and systems thinking.
A portfolio demonstrating leadership and impact on user-centric projects.
Track record of influencing cross-functional partners.
Experience mentoring other content designers and raising the bar for quality.

Expected Impact

The Staff Content Designer will significantly shape the user experience of Dropbox's next-generation AI products, making them more intuitive, helpful, and trustworthy for millions of users. They will also contribute to elevating the content design discipline within the company and mentor junior designers.

Why Apply

Opportunity to be at the forefront of AI product development and shape the future of work.
Role offers craft leadership, mentorship, and the chance to influence company-wide content design practices.
Dropbox fosters a "Virtual First" model, combining autonomy with connection, and offers comprehensive benefits and perks.
This summary was generated from the original job posting (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, visit the company's site.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary, benefits, and perks for this role

Salary Range

$159100 - $215300

Competitive compensation based on experience and location

Benefits & Perks

Opportunity to be at the forefront of AI product development and shape the future of work.
Additional benefits and perks available
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Original Job Description

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Remote - US: Select locations

Staff Content Designer

PLEASE READ: Zones are based on your zip code. If you’re within 100 miles of a listed metro area (straight-line radius), you’re included in that Zone. For this role, we are hiring in Zones 2 and 3. Check your Zone here before applying.

Role Description

As a Staff Content Designer on Dash, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping UX for the next generation of AI-powered products. You’ll own end-to-end content strategy and execution, ensuring our AI products feel simple, helpful, and worthy of trust.

On Dash Design, you’ll collaborate across teams to make Dash even more intuitive, intelligent, and powerful. You’ll also reimagine how millions of Dropbox customers can work smarter with help from built-in AI.

As a craft leader, you’ll shape a world-class content design discipline. You’ll be a thought partner to the Head of Content Design, mentor other content designers, and synthesize stakeholder feedback into high-quality artifacts for executive presentations and key milestones.

Responsibilities

  • Lead content strategy and UX writing across key Dropbox Dash features
  • Align content design work with business goals, user needs, and established style guides
  • Define, evolve, and champion content principles, frameworks, and reusable patterns
  • Prioritize across competing needs to focus on the highest-impact projects
  • Ensure content reflects feedback, metrics, technical constraints, localization, and accessibility best practices
  • Elevate content and design quality through contributions in workshops and critiques
  • Partner proactively with product designers, brand designers, researchers, product managers, engineers, and leaders at all levels
  • Mentor other content designers and foster knowledge-sharing across the Dash Design team
  • Collaborate with product marketing and other writing disciplines to ensure consistency across the user journey

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in UX writing, content design, or related fields
  • Proven expertise in UX writing, content strategy, and systems thinking
  • A portfolio demonstrating leadership and impact on work that delivered measurable value to users and the business
  • Track record of influencing and collaborating effectively with cross-functional partners, including engineering, product, design, research, and leadership
  • Ability to navigate complexity and prioritize a wide range of responsibilities in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience mentoring and guiding other content designers, with a record of raising the bar for quality and practice
  • Strong collaboration skills with a low-ego, team-first approach

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working on 0→1 products
  • Experience working on productivity tools and/or AI-products
  • Passion for building team culture

Compensation

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2
$159,100—$215,300 USD
US Zone 3
$141,400—$191,400 USD

The range(s) listed above is the expected annual salary/OTE (On-Target Earnings) for this role, subject to change.

Please note, OTE are for sales roles only.

Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Dropbox takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including job and level they are hired into, location/metropolitan area, skillset, and peer compensation.  We target most new hire offers between the minimum up to the middle of the range.

Dropbox uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. Current US Zone locations are as follows:

• US Zone 1: San Francisco metro, New York City metro, or Seattle metro
• US Zone 2: California (outside SF metro), Colorado, Connecticut (outside NYC metro), Delaware, Illinois (Chicago metro), Indiana (Chicago metro), Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan (Chicago metro), New Hampshire, New Jersey (outside NYC metro), New York (outside NYC metro), Oregon, Pennsylvania (D.C. metro), Pennsylvania (outside NYC or DC metro), Texas (Austin metro) Virginia (DC metro), Washington (outside Seattle metro), Washington DC metro, West Virginia (DC metro), Wisconsin (Chicago metro)
• US Zone 3: All other US locations

Company Description

Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for more enlightened ways of working. We're a global community of bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of Dropbox—and with it the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the autonomy of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, making space for both meaningful work and meaningful relationships. With our start-up mindset and enterprise-level opportunities, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. Here, you can own your impact to make work more intuitive, joyful, and human—for you as a Dropboxer and for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you're ready to push boundaries—and yourself— Dropbox is ready for you.

Team Description

The Dropbox Design & Research Team creates experiences that make work feel effortless. We're problem solvers and innovators, combining research insights with thoughtful design to craft solutions that make users’ lives easier. Through iterative design and deep user research, we uncover, understand, and solve fundamental problems that impede enlightened work. We don't just make things look good—we make complex technologies feel intuitive and joyful by putting human needs at the center. If you're passionate about creating products that are equally thoughtful, powerful and delightful, join our Design & Research team. Areas of work include Research Program Management, Customer Access Programs (CAPS), User Experience Design, User Research, Visual Design, Interaction Design, Design Systems, Accessibility Design, Content Design, and Prototyping.

Benefits

Dropbox is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all Dropboxers and their families. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

  • Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) plan with a generous company match and immediate vesting
  • Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off, paid holidays, Volunteer Time Off, and more, allowing you time to unplug, unwind, and refresh
  • Income Protection Plans: Life and disability insurance
  • Business Travel Protection: Travel medical and accident insurance
  • Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness, learning and development, food and groceries, and much more
  • Parental benefits including: Parental Leave, Child and Adult Care, Day Care FSA, Fertility Benefits, Adoption and Surrogacy Support, and Lactation Support
  • Access to over 10,000 global co-working spaces through Gable.to, making it easy to book flexible workspaces for collaboration or individual work
  • Quarterly Cell phone and internet allowance
  • Mental health and wellness benefits
  • Disability and neurodivergence support benefits

Additional benefit details are available upon request.

 

Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, enABLE, TODOS (Latinx), Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, and Women at Dropbox.

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The Dropbox Design & Research Team creates experiences that make work feel effortless. We're problem solvers and innovators, combining research insights with thoughtful design to craft solutions that make users’ lives easier. Through iterative design and deep user research, we uncover, understand, and solve fundamental problems that impede enlightened work. We don't just make things look good—we make complex technologies feel intuitive and joyful by putting human needs at the center. If you're passionate about creating products that are equally thoughtful, powerful and delightful, join our Design & Research team. Areas of work include Research Program Management, Customer Access Programs (CAPS), User Experience Design, User Research, Visual Design, Interaction Design, Design Systems, Accessibility Design, Content Design, and Prototyping.

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