About DuckDuckGo
- Online protection company and remote-first team of 300+.
- Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, with annual revenue exceeding $100m USD.
- Millions use the DuckDuckGo browser on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, the search engine, and Privacy Pro.
- Culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management where each team member takes full ownership of projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem.
About the Role
- Working on the Design Functional Team in a design-first role, leveraging product design expertise and obsession with craft to help maintain quality across products, including Duck.ai, native apps, search, and related projects.
- Recent project examples: https://spreadprivacy.com/ai-feature-upgrade/, https://spreadprivacy.com/ai-chat/.
- Design owns quality end to end, and engineering skills close the gap between the design that's intended and the product that ships.
- Fluent enough in code to prototype, spec precisely, and partner with engineers as a peer, working directly in the codebase to make sure execution clears the bar set.
- As the 2nd Design Engineer, there will be real leadership opportunities to shape the role and discipline.
- As a Senior Product Design Engineer, you'll collaborate across levels to solve problems in current products and pioneer new ones as we build the privacy layer for the Internet.
- Autonomously lead high-impact projects at scale from ideation to execution with a voice in product design decisions large and small.
What You'll Bring
7+ years in product design roles, including 2+ years senior-level at significant global consumer brands.
Pushes creative limits on hard design problems, delivering delight, craft, and exceptional quality.
Communicates visual and interaction recommendations through high-quality mockups, rationale, prototypes, and specific motion variables.
Partners with engineers as a peer — reasoning about decisions in PR reviews, contributing code where it raises design quality.
Prototypes in code to a production standard, with an understanding of semantic markup and accessibility, leveraging but not relying on AI.
Experience structuring a Design System beyond component inventory: token layering, primitive vs. semantic naming, design-to-code parity.
Proficient in research and experimentation, using both qualitative and quantitative data, and comfortable instrumenting your own work.
Experience participating in multiple areas of the product process including prioritization, strategy, and user testing.* Takes initiative - generates ideas and carries them forward with urgency and discretion, while working openly.
Experience defining requirements and building tools that accelerate design and engineering workflows while retaining Design System quality and consistency.
Compensation & Benefits
- $178,500 USD annually and stock options in USA or equivalent.
- Compensation is identical within professional levels, regardless of geographic location or team.
- Compensation for each professional level is transparent across the organization.