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Senior Strategy & Operations Program Manager

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Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
180K-243K Annually
Senior level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
180K-243K Annually
Senior level
The Senior Strategy & Operations Program Manager will drive operational excellence by partnering with executives to develop strategy, manage execution, and ensure alignment across teams.
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Role Description

At Dropbox, we believe in simplifying the way people work together. We provide a range of innovative cloud-based solutions to empower individuals and businesses to share, access, and collaborate on their files seamlessly. We’re looking for an experienced Senior Strategy & Operations Program Manager to partner across the organization to develop our strategy and develop the operational mechanisms to ensure we successfully deliver against our goals.

As a Senior Strategy & Operations Program Manager, you will join a small, high-impact team that partners across Product, Engineering, Design, GTM, and Executive leadership to drive end-to-end operational excellence: from shaping long-term strategy and business planning to overseeing execution, removing operational friction, and enabling rapid product development cycles. This is a senior individual-contributor role, and requires the ability to work effectively with executive leaders, EPD teams (engineering, product, design), and across organizational boundaries. The ideal candidate brings deep program management chops, a strategic mindset, and the ability to translate high-level vision into clear, actionable plans and operational cadence. 

Responsibilities
  • Partner with senior leadership and executives to define the strategic vision and then translate it into prioritized goals and concrete execution roadmaps.
  • Define, implement, and manage operating cadences for the division (e.g. goals, QBRs, roadmap reviews, launch planning, regular exec-level briefings) to ensure alignment, accountability, and transparency.
  • Build and maintain frameworks for tracking performance metrics, KPIs, business outcomes, and post-mortems — enabling continuous improvement and iterative learning.
  • Facilitate cross-functional alignment and communication across Product, Engineering, Design, GTM, and other teams; surface and resolve interdependencies, resource constraints, and blockers.
  • Lead cross-functional strategic initiatives from ideation and opportunity sizing, through planning, execution and measurement — blending strategy, program management, and operational execution.
  • Produce high-quality executive-level deliverables and presentations (strategic plans, business reviews, board-ready materials) that distill complexity into clarity for leadership.
  • Act as an operational “glue”: identify inefficiencies, implement process improvements, and build scalable workflows and systems that support fast-moving, high-growth product development cycles.
Requirements
  • 10+ years of experience in program management, business operations, strategy, or related roles at a high-growth tech company (SaaS/product-led)
  • Proven track record of successfully leading multi-function, cross-organizational programs from concept through delivery, including leading stakeholder alignment across teams (Product, Engineering, Design, GTM, Finance, etc)
  • Demonstrated ability to use data to drive decision making and identify business opportunities, including experience with Excel, Tableau, Amplitude, or other analytics tools
  • Experience leading strategic planning cycles, goal setting, business rhythms, and daily operations in a large organization
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills; proven experience preparing executive-level presentations, business reviews, and strategic narratives for senior leadership or board audiences
  • Ability to switch between high-level strategic thinking and detail-oriented execution
  • Strong bias for action, high ownership mindset, and comfort navigating ambiguity and complexity
Preferred Qualifications
  • Prior experience in product management or corporate strategy, especially for technology companies
  • Prior experience in a product-led SaaS company, ideally with exposure to building or scaling core platform/business-critical systems
  • Demonstrated success designing and running SMART goals or similar operating cadence frameworks at scale
  • Skilled at stakeholder management: building relationships and consensus across diverse functional teams — Product, Engineering, GTM, Finance, etc
  • Prior exposure to building systems, processes, or tooling to support program management, cross-functional execution, or operational scaling
Compensation

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2
$179,800$243,200 USD
US Zone 3
$159,800$216,200 USD

Top Skills

Amplitude
Excel
Tableau

Dropbox Chicago, Illinois, USA Office

Chicago, IL, United States

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