People Pmo Project Manager

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.

The People team are ambassadors of enlightened work, delivering meaningful experiences that empower us all to do our best work.

In this role, you will work closely with the People PMO and cross-functional teams across the People team and the business to drive key initiatives and affect change across the People team and Dropbox as a whole. Ideal candidates will be energized by working autonomously and with a level of ambiguity that often comes with the types of projects run through the People PMO

We are looking for someone with project management expertise and a consultative mindset in the People space with an aptitude to drive rigor, stay agile, and operate with a critical thinking lens. You will be creating plans for and executing on projects under a wide purview - from critical KTLO projects (e.g. designing and executing on People team offsites and All Hands) to strategic initiatives (e.g. project managing an M&A from a People team POV).

You must have the capacity to balance multiple priorities, thrive in ambiguity, leverage change management principles to influence internal partners, identify, articulate, and assess success metrics for the projects you manage, and possess excellent communication skills that can be tailored to cross-functional audiences at every level. Your key stakeholders will include our HR leadership team and leaders across our G&A function, so you must have demonstrated success of operating independently with senior audiences.

This is a senior project manager role, and the ideal candidate has deep expertise in project management with breadth in other skills - data analysis, communications, presenting insights, and facilitating complex, cross-functional meetings - and the ability to flex into these areas based on project need. Deep expertise in one or more areas of HR would also be an asset to this role. We are looking for someone with the demonstrated ability to pick up and apply new information quickly about new HR spaces and create playbooks with key learnings to apply to future projects.

• Build operational plans and work in partnership with People PMO Manager to execute on key strategic projects. This can include M&A, reimagining the People team through an AI lens, and the future of work
• Seamlessly execute on project management through all stages of a project including through all stages - initial intake, scoping, developing project plans, executing against project plans, aligning and coordinating cross-functional collaborators, mitigating risk, communicating to stakeholders, and project closeout including retro and playbook updates
• Prepare presentations and dashboards as needed for executive-level audiences
• Cultivate strong peer-level relationships with Dropboxers across the People organization and in partnership with key internal stakeholders (Corporate Development, OCEO, Comms, Legal)
• Communicate clearly and succinctly to influence project outcomes leveraging verbal and written communication channels
• Advise senior-level stakeholders across the People team and key cross-functional teams on project direction, mitigating risk, and problem solving

• Ability to translate between strategic business decisions and their operational implications
• Ability to excel in ambiguity, uncertainty, and a rapidly evolving business landscape
• 8+ years experience in a human resources, management consulting, strategy, or operations role
• Ability to shift from high-level strategic thinking to stepping in and helping to drive implementation alongside functional teams
• Excellent project management skills with a proactive, consultative, and agile mindset
• Experience with highly visible, high impact cross-functional projects
• Expertise in one or more areas of HR (e.g. L&OD, DEI, HR Ops) a plus
• Experience in Asana and other project management software a plus
• Analytical, comfortable with large data sets, and able to extract business insights from analysis
• Ability to quickly adapt to new technologies
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

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).