Hybrid Business Intelligence Engineering Manager

at Dropbox

• Job title: Business Intelligence Engineering Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $157,800 - $240,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, SQL, Tableau
• Location requirements: Hybrid, United States

About the role

• Business Intelligence Manager at Dropbox leading analytics initiatives to drive business insights. Manages team and collaborates with Product, Engineering, and Finance to inform strategic decisions.

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing Business Intelligence team—defining clear goals, coaching for growth, and fostering a collaborative, impact-oriented culture.
• Define the BI strategy and roadmap in partnership with the Director of Analytics and cross-functional leadership.
• Drive alignment between analytics priorities and company objectives.
• Manage the team’s Jira process and analytics pipeline, ensuring requests are efficiently triaged, prioritized, and tracked from intake to delivery.
• Identify and implement process improvements to make team operations more scalable and proactive—shifting focus from ad hoc requests to strategic, high-leverage work.
• Maintain a centralized repository of analytics projects and deliverables, ensuring visibility and accountability across leadership and stakeholders.
• Partner closely with the Director of Analytics to support quarterly business reviews, planning cycles, and goal-setting processes.
• Help prepare performance metrics, dashboards, and summaries for business and strategy reviews.
• Collaborate on writing planning documents, filling in key metrics, and synthesizing input from across the business.
• Proactively connect with stakeholders to gather updates, align expectations, and communicate progress.
• Partner strategically with cross-functional teams to translate business challenges into analytical questions and actionable insights.
• Oversee development of data models, pipelines, and visualizations that empower stakeholders to make data-driven decisions.
• Maintain high standards for data quality, governance, and documentation.
• Champion storytelling through data—helping teams understand not just what the data says, but why it matters.

Requirements

• 8–10+ years of experience in Business Intelligence, Analytics, or Data Engineering, including at least 2–3 years managing analysts or BI engineers
• Proven success leading analytics initiatives that drive measurable business impact.
• Experience managing team operations, prioritization systems (e.g., Jira), and project pipelines.
• Advanced SQL skills and strong familiarity with BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker, Power BI).
• Deep understanding of data modeling best practices and data warehouse design.
• Experience in cloud environments (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) is a plus.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills—able to simplify complex data into clear business narratives.
• Excellent organization, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on mindset; thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Highly detail-oriented and comfortable juggling multiple cross-functional initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or related).
• Master’s degree is a plus.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Flexible work arrangements