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We are currently only authorized to hire candidates from the following provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan. At Dropbox, we believe in simplifying the way people work together. We provide cloudbased solutions to empower individuals and businesses to share, access, and collaborate on files seamlessly. The Core Media & Intelligence team leads the development of nextgeneration AIpowered applications built endtoend on top of Dropbox. The mission is to design and ship intelligent, vertical solutions that deeply understand customer workflows and deliver differentiated, highimpact experiences. Responsibilities Directly manage up to 20 direct reports, as a single execution unit Partner with multiple Product Managers to plan roadmaps and sprints Be accountable for high quality execution on critical and high visibility business objectives Be responsible for making tradeoffs between feature work and addressing long term technical debt Be responsible for excellence in software quality, engineering practices and operations Lead the team through standard Agile processes, such as backlog management, stand ups, retros, etc. Review and approve engineering designs and be able to set technical direction (in collaboration with a Technical Lead) Drive crossorg initiatives alongside managing execution responsibilities Drive career conversations and career plans for 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 building or integrating with AI productsMust have worked in a platform team or a developerfacing API product with both internal and external consumers Must have experience running a standard Agile process such as backlog management, stand ups, retros, etc Must be resultsdriven, especially good at balancing execution predictability with the agility needed in bringing a new product to market Preferred Qualifications Experience shipping AIpowered features in production, collaborating closely with ML engineers and product teams Strong backend engineering skills with systems that support model serving, inference, and data pipelines at scale Strong background in AI agent infrastructure and building AI agents Ability to evaluate AI models for a specific use case and advise on build vs buy decisions Expertise in distributed systems architecture designing for scalability, fault tolerance, observability, and graceful degradation in multiservice environments. Travel This role requires travel to offsites and various other team gatherings (approximately 510% of the year or 23 days per quarter). Compensation Canada Pay Range: $204,900$277,200 CAD. This range represents the expected annual salary/OTE (OnTarget Earnings) for this role, subject to change. Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropboxs 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). AI Principles Dropbox supports responsible use of AI for preparation, but misrepresentation of skills or experience is not permitted. See our AI Principles. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr