Product Designer, Design Systems

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Role Description

As a Design Systems Product Designer focused on iOS, you'll help architect and evolve DIG (Dropbox Interface Guidelines) through our native mobile experiences. Your role will be threefold; Influence the strategic direction of our mobile design language, ensuring our products feel consistent, elegant, and native to iOS and the Dropbox brand vision. Partner closely with engineers, product managers, and brand designers to deliver design-to-code systems that improve velocity without compromising craft. Champion consistency, accessibility, usability, and performance standards across the ecosystem.

You'll bring a spirit of innovation and continuous improvement to design systems practices while closely partnering with product managers, engineers, and brand teams. In this role, you'll gain senior leadership exposure through highly visible system initiatives, and you'll directly influence how millions of people experience Dropbox on mobile.

Responsibilities

Lead the definition, design, and documentation of reusable iOS-focused design system components, patterns, and guidelines.

Collaborate with product designers to ensure consistency across features and platforms while meeting platform-specific needs.

Partner with engineering to build, test, and deliver robust design system components.

Drive adoption of the design system through education, governance, and advocacy across cross-functional teams.

Ensure accessibility and inclusivity standards are embedded within system components and workflows.

Contribute to the design system roadmap, identifying opportunities for scalability, efficiency, and innovation.

Participate in design reviews, audits, and QA to ensure consistency and fidelity in implementation.

Requirements

6+ years of experience in product design with a strong focus on mobile-first consumer applications.

Deep expertise in iOS design language (Human Interface Guidelines, UIKit, SwiftUI patterns) and familiarity with Android conventions.

Proven experience designing, scaling, and maintaining design systems or component libraries.

Proficiency in modern design tools (Figma, tokens-based workflows, documentation platforms like Storybook/Zeroheight).

Strong collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional partners (engineering, product, brand).

Demonstrated ability to balance user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility in system-level decisions.

Strong portfolio showcasing iOS product design and design system work.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working on high-scale mobile products with large user bases.

Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design practices.

Knowledge of design-to-code handoff pipelines and design tokens.

Experience mentoring designers or contributing to design culture.

Interest or background in visual asset systems (iconography, motion, or illustration).

Compensation

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1 US Zone 2 $176,000—$238,000 USD US Zone 3 $156,400—$211,600 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 , 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.

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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.