Your Team and Role

In this role, you will collaborate with team members at all levels to identify and solve problems across our current product offering, as well as helping to pioneer new solutions as we build out the privacy layer for the Internet. You'll have the opportunity to level up our products through exploring and testing concepts that improve overall experience and increase delight while appealing to a broader audience.

Applying your hands-on design skills, you will autonomously lead highly impactful projects that scale across millions of users. From ideation to execution, you'll assess vague problems, propose high-impact solutions, and execute them against a set of success criteria. You'll have a voice in all product-related design decisions, whether large or small, and an opportunity to work on a team dedicated to our ethical, privacy by design approach. Read more about Design at DuckDuckGo on our blog.

About You

• 6+ years of experience in product design roles, including 2+ years in senior-level design positions at significant global consumer brands.
• Proficiency in managing projects of varying complexity, from proposal, through execution and release, all while working transparently and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and contributors.
• A knack for pushing creative limits while solving challenging design problems and delivering on delight, craft and exceptional quality.
• Ability to communicate visual and interaction recommendations with high-quality mockups, prototypes, and rationale.
• Accustomed to applying agentic solutions into every day project management and design execution workflows to both accelerate and raise the quality of your work.
• Ability to write creative briefs that clearly define and communicate project goals, rationale, and success metrics with stakeholders.
• Proficiency in research and experimentation — you can leverage both qualitative and quantitative data in driving decisions forward.
• Skills to manage ambiguity and wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a focus on metrics.
• Ability to take initiative in generating ideas and carrying them forward with urgency and discretion, while working openly and collaboratively.
• A willingness to apply your experience and expertise in educating, guiding, and supporting others, while serving as a steward to maintain quality of execution across designated areas of design.
• Experience participating in multiple areas of the product process including prioritization, strategy, and user testing.

Compensation

$178,500 USD annually and stock options. Compensation is identical within professional levels, regardless of geographic location or team. Compensation for each professional level is transparent across the organization. Eligibility for company-sponsored health benefits is limited to team members based in the United States.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

DuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.

We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an email to [email protected] to let us know the nature of your request.

Hiring Process

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While we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.

A successful candidate must pass a background check as a condition of joining the team.

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Disclosure Statement: Use of AI in Hiring Process. As part of our commitment to enhancing our recruitment process, we utilize artificial intelligence (AI) technology to assist in reviewing and summarizing job applications and test projects, including those tools integrated into our recruitment vendor platforms. We use AI to flag potentially fraudulent applications, analyze and summarize applicants’ experience, interviews, and project performance, and help streamline our selection process.