Product Designer (Senior, Lead or Principal)

Hi, we're DuckDuckGo, the online protection company and remote-first team of 300+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, annual revenue now exceeds $100m USD and millions use our browser on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, our search engine, and the latest — Privacy Pro. Our culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management underpins everything we do, where each team member takes full ownership of their projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem. If you're seeking end-to-end ownership of your work — you've come to the right place!

As a Product Designer (at Senior, Lead or Principal level), you'll collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, our User Insights team and other cross-functional teams to craft a world-class products with embedded privacy and data protection features that will revolutionize the way people search, surf, and exist online.

Working on the Design team, you will help accelerate DuckDuckGo’s growth through Design across our current product offering (Search Engine, Mobile Browsers, Desktop browsers, Duck AI and more), as well as helping to pioneer new solutions as we build out the privacy layer for the Internet. Recent projects include:

• Implementing our privacy-first AI chat into our search product

• Launching screen animations for mobile

• Updating the visual design of our mobile browsers to improve perceptions of product look and feel

• Design and test alternative Duck Player mobile entry points and UX

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.

With this role, we're eager to leverage not just your UX skills, but your ability to add creativity and delight to our products. You're visual designer at heart who cares about craft, challenging the norm and is eager to differentiate our brand through bold color, typography, motion, and interaction choices.

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: https://spreadprivacy.com/ethical-by-design/

About You

• Minimum 6+ years of experience in product design roles, including 2+ years in senior-level design positions at significant global consumer brands (Senior).

• 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 track record of leveraging visual design strengths to bring delight and creativity into apps with brave color, typography, and interaction choices.

• A knack for pushing creative limits while solving challenging design problems and delivering craft and exceptional quality.

• Ability to communicate visual and interaction recommendations with high-quality mockups, prototypes, and rationale.

• 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 - $243,800 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.

Our Team Member Support Guide explains how we prioritise your wellbeing including paid parental leave, office setup and co-working allowances.

Hiring Process

Hiring works best when it's a two-way street. Learn how we help you get to know DuckDuckGo, envision your future role here, and find out more about how we hire.

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 careers@duckduckgo.com to let us know the nature of your request.

Please note that

• You’ll be required to attend meetings on camera via video conferencing

• Expect to travel at least two times a year: once for our all-hands meetup and again for a team retreat (each around 4-5 days). While extenuating circumstances may impact attendance, everyone is strongly encouraged to attend.

• 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.

• By applying for this role, you confirm that all information submitted is accurate and complete. You further acknowledge that providing false or fraudulent information during the application process is cause for denial of an offer, revocation of any existing offer, or other adverse action, up to and including termination after the start of your commencement of work.