Hiya! I’m looking for roles after California lay off announcements at Volvo. The Principal Product Design role @ Dropbox looks really interesting and I have my eyes on moving down to LA from SF for a change of scene. Any referral would be great. Thanks Blinders! YOE 8 #design #ui/ux #dropbox
At Principal you are competing with 10+ years experience in this market like my partner fyi
WTF even Volvo is laying off?
Everyone will be laying off soon
big leap to principal TBH. ex dbx here (not design tho, im a pm). there have been very few principals period, most homegrown, and all well over 10 yoe to my knowledge. you will need a stellar portfolio with very relevant impact to the role to even get a call back would be my guess. also they likely wouldn't value exp at a place like volvo. pretty much only google, meta, aws, apple are valued with everywhere else being downleveled. my knowledge is a couple years out of date since I left however. dont mean to be discouraging, just honest.
8 yoe seems a little light for a principal level role. Most principals I know have 10+. (Also, it looks like they’re looking for someone with 8-10 YOE in a *senior* role, so that would imply significantly more total experience)
I’m applying to that role too!
Any y’all get the job?
Gotcha! 🙏