Design Research Summer Intern

About Dropbox

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 700 million registered users across more than 180 countries, their mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.

Your role

The Research & Insights team helps Dropbox see the world from other people’s perspectives. They employ a variety of methods to collect rich data that enables product and design teams to make better decisions for their users. 

• The company finds that research has the greatest impact when tightly coupled with design and product decisions, so they work on interdisciplinary teams.
• You’ll be embedded with a team of designers, product managers, and cross-functional partners across the organization.
• As you conduct research, you will be responsible for developing deep, research-driven product expertise.

Your responsibilities

• Work closely with researchers and product teams to identify research questions. 
• Examine existing insights and product designs to generate hypotheses about how they can improve Dropbox products through user experience and engagement.
• Design, plan, and execute user research projects in collaboration with other researchers, designers, product managers, and data scientists.
• Conduct research using a range of qualitative methods and a subset of quantitative methods, such as surveys.
• Communicate research findings and recommendations to stakeholders in compelling and creative ways.

Training & development 

As an intern at Dropbox, you’ll be an integral member of the Research & Insights team, working and learning alongside their talented team. This is a full-time summer internship for 40 hours/week for a period of 12 weeks. This is an opportunity to develop skills and expertise in research coordination and execution, cross-functional team collaboration, and actionable insight.

Benefits

• Sick Leave
• Flexible work
• Learning programs
• Time off

Career progression

At Dropbox, Interns will be provided with one-on-one mentorship and feedback throughout their internship and will also be considered for a full-time offer upon graduation depending on business needs and performance.

Work-life balance

Whether you commute, work from home, or work virtually, it’s important that you know how to strike a work-life balance. At Dropbox, you find enough time and work not just for your health and happiness, but for your overall productivity too.

Culture & vibe

At Dropbox with their development and mentorship programs for high-potential women and underrepresented minorities, participation in DEI conferences, industry recognition, and a variety of Employee Resource Groups to help their Dropboxers find support and create community, diversity is always their top priority.

About you

To apply for this role you need to have the following requirements:

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in Anthropology, Business, Design, Humanities, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Science, Journalism, Liberal Arts, Neuroscience, Psychology, Sociology, (or similar); or have equivalent work experience with User Experience, Product, or Design teams
• Clear presentation and communication style
• Demonstrated skills for collaborating closely with others
• Experience conducting independent research (qualitative or quantitative)
• Desire to develop in Research career track as opposed to Design
• One sample that highlights your research approach (i.e. past work, a classroom report, a personal project)
• Bonus: experience with visual design and/or database management (e.g. SQL)

How to apply

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