Senior Engineering Manager, Core Mobile Experience

Dropbox is a Virtual First company that provides innovative cloud-based solutions for individuals and businesses. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead the Core Mobile Experience team, managing up to 25 engineers and driving high-impact outcomes while fostering a culture of innovation and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Directly manage up to 25 direct reports, as a single execution unit
• Partner with multiple Product Managers to plan roadmaps and sprints
• Responsible for making tradeoffs between feature work and addressing long term technical debt
• Responsible for excellence in software quality, engineering practices and operations
• Lead their team through standard Agile processes, such as backlog management, stand ups, retros, etc
• Review and Approve engineering designs and able to set technical direction (in collaboration with a Technical Lead)
• Drive cross-org initiatives while leading execution and actively supporting the career growth and development of your direct reports

Requirements:

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics) or equivalent technical experience
• Minimum of 8 years of people management experience with an engineering team
• Minimum of 10 years as a software engineer or equivalent technical experience
• Must have experience managing engineering organizations of 20 or above, and experience managing managers
• Must have experience being a hands-on mobile engineer at a senior level
• Must have worked in a consumer user-facing team (versus a platform team, a developer-facing API-based product, etc)
• Must have experience running a standard Agile process such as backlog management, stand ups, retros, etc
• Setting strategic direction on a consumer-facing product
• Experience building cross platform (iOS & Android) software