Company Description
Dropbox is a leading global collaboration platform that's transforming the way people work together, from the smallest business to the largest enterprise. With more than 500 million registered users across more than 180 countries, our mission is to unleash the world's creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Dropbox has more than 12 offices around the world.
Team Description
Our Legal, Policy, Trust & Security teams help keep users and their stuff safe, protect Dropbox, counsel Dropboxers on challenging problems, and are always synced with the Dropbox teams they work with. We deal with novel issues every day while standing up for users and helping the company and product grow.
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Dropbox is a leading global collaboration platform that's transforming the way people work together, from the smallest business to the largest enterprise. With more than 500 million registered users across more than 180 countries, our mission is to unleash the world's creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Dropbox has more than 12 offices around the world.
Team Description
Our Legal, Policy, Trust & Privacy teams help keep users and their stuff safe, protect Dropbox, counsel Dropboxers on challenging problems, and are always synced with the Dropbox teams they work with. We deal with novel issues every day while standing up for users and helping the company and product grow.
Role Description
We're building a Public Policy, Government Affairs & Social Impact Team at Dropbox that evangelizes Dropbox's mission of simplifying the way people work together and protecting our users. We aim to promote an open and vibrant digital society and to advance user privacy and data security.
As Dropbox's Senior Social Impact Manager, you will help manage and expand the human rights partnerships and skill-based volunteering projects that are essential to the recently established Dropbox Foundation. You will manage employee engagement, grantmaking, and the Foundation web site, and you will identify pathways for thought leadership and stakeholder engagement. You will be an internal and external champion across Dropbox's philanthropic initiatives, building strategic collaborations to drive program success.
As part of the broader Social Impact Team, you also will support the expansion of Dropbox for Good (DfG), our internal grassroots organization that empowers Dropboxers to impact their local and global communities through volunteerism and philanthropy. You will work across Dropbox's global offices in close collaboration with our small, but high performing existing team. You will help leverage the power of our people, product, and resources to make the world a better place.
The strength of your leadership and project management skills, prior experience working with Foundations and/or community initiatives, and your positive energy and passion for philanthropy will enable you to effectively advance Dropbox's social impact priorities. This role will report to our Head of Social Impact and will be based in San Francisco.
Responsibilities
- Expand Dropbox's global policies and programs on philanthropic giving and drive cross-functional consensus around them
- Partner with civil society organizations and other external constituents to build support for the human rights causes we support
- Identify community engagement and partnership opportunities with innovative nonprofits in Dropbox locations
- Collaborate with our newly established Sustainability group to support employee programs
- Create and execute compelling communication strategies around our philanthropic priorities and partner with Dropbox's communications team in stakeholder engagement efforts
- Monitor and analyze philanthropic issues and developments of importance to Dropbox and provide strategic advice on those issues
- Develop metrics to measure the impact of our philanthropic giving and have the ability to course correct where needed to ensure that our giving has the most impact possible
- Help build, lead, and empower a Social Impact team that exemplifies Dropbox values
- 10+ years work experience, ideally senior management role at a foundation or in a corporate social responsibility capacity; combination public-private sector experience is required
- Passionate and knowledgeable about human rights causes and issues, with prior experience working on those issues strongly preferred
- Interest in social impact and the role of corporations in being good private sector partners to effect change
- Experienced and adept at working with civil society organizations around the world
- Experienced at project and team management, with a desire to build and empower a team in a hypergrowth environment
- Skilled at advocating complex positions before a wide variety of audiences, persuasively and diplomatically
- Solutions-oriented problem solver
- Sweats the details and thrives on multi-tasking
- Self-starter, yet team-oriented
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to large groups
- Great interpersonal skills and ability to work well in a fast-paced team environment
- Distinguished academic record with an advanced degree in a relevant field a plus
- Guided by a personal integrity that reflects Dropbox's core values
- 100% company paid individual medical, dental, & vision insurance coverage
- 401k + company match
- Market competitive total compensation package
- Free Dropbox space for your friends and family
- Wellness Reimbursement
- Generous vacation policy
- 10 company paid holidays
- Volunteer time off
- Company sponsored tech talks(technology and other relevant professional topics)