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Remote - Canada

Product Design Intern (Summer 2024)

Company Description

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.

Team Description

Over the years at Dropbox, Emerging Talent has created a variety of internships, apprenticeships, and early-in-career full time opportunities to build pathways for exceptional early career professionals to succeed at Dropbox. Supported by a community of mentors, program graduates, and fellow participants, our Emerging Talent programs are the perfect place to start your career in tech.

Role Description

As a Product Design Intern at Dropbox, you’ll be an essential part of the product development process, working alongside experienced designers, product managers, and engineers to design and iterate on innovative solutions that address user needs.
 
In partnership with your dedicated mentor and team of professional designers, you will be responsible for decisions that shape the product you work on. You’ll use your full range of skills from product design, interaction design, and visual design to build magical experiences. Throughout the summer, you’ll work with the a cross functional team through product development process to test out your ideas at all levels of fidelity, and learn what details matter at each stage of a sprint cycle.
 
Please provide us with a personal email address rather than a school email address so that Dropbox can communicate effectively with you.

Responsibilities

  • Embed directly in one of our product teams, working on a project in close collaboration with other designers, writers, researchers, product managers, and engineers
  • Employ a systematic process for finding and resolving hidden complexities and edge cases
  • Produce work that encompasses the distinctive look and feel of Dropbox’s products
  • Think through user problems, find reasonable solutions, mock them up in detail, and work with engineers to build them.
  • Participate in team/company initiatives, design critiques, and collaboration sessions
  • Speak and present compellingly about design to stakeholders

Requirements

  • Pursuing a Design degree, graduating between December ‘24 - Spring ’26
  • Required: Portfolio showcasing at least one project that highlights your product design expertise. Submit with application
  • Proficient in multi-platform design (mobile, web, desktop)
  • Demonstrated systems thinking and sound design rationale
  • Acute understanding of good and bad user experiences
  • Proficient in composition principles: balance, symmetry, and white space
  • Bonus: Skills in motion, iconography, UX flows, UI visuals, prototyping, and front-end web development
  • Strong attention to detail, striving for pixel perfection
  • Experience with Figma or similar design tools

Dropbox is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all Dropboxers and their families.

Our benefits and perks programs include:

  • Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage
  • Flexible Time Off/Paid Time Off, paid holidays, Company-wide PTO days, Volunteer time off
  • Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s productivity, learning & development, wellness, co-working space

Additional benefits 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, Latinx, Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, Women at Dropbox, ATX Diversity (based in Austin, Texas) and the Dropbox Empowerment Network (based in Dublin, Ireland).

Other open positions

Over the years at Dropbox, Emerging Talent has created a variety of internships, apprenticeships, and early-in-career full time opportunities to build pathways for exceptional early career professionals to succeed at Dropbox. Supported by a community of mentors, program graduates, and fellow participants, our Emerging Talent programs are the perfect place to start your career in tech.