Sara Clayton
Design @ Dropbox | Figuring out AI’s place in mature design companies
- Role
- Lead Product Designer at Dropbox
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sara Clayton
I’m a product designer with 8+ years of experience designing complex platforms at scale. I currently work on monetization and growth at Dropbox, and previously led design for Dropbox Replay. Before Dropbox, I was the lead designer for storage and compute on Azure at Microsoft.Lately, I’m deeply interested in how AI can be used as a practical tool - not as a novelty, but as something that meaningfully improves real workflows. I’m less interested in “AI features” and more interested in how AI augments existing skills, reduces friction, and changes how products are priced and adopted.Alongside my work at Dropbox, I explore these ideas through side projects and writing. I’m especially curious about future-forward product patterns, like what sustainable monetization looks like for credit-based AI tools and usage-driven systems.I share thoughts and experiments here from time to time as I learn in public.
Experience
Lead Product Designer
Nov 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Dropbox Replay, Core Growth & Monetization
Education
University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering
Master of Science - MS, Human-Centered Design and Engineering
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Public Relations, Information Technology
School of Visual Concepts
Color for Design, Motion for Design
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