Senior Product Design Engineer, DuckDuckGo
$178.5k
Salary in US currency, may vary in other locations + Stock options
Senior and Expert level
Remote from Canada, Europe, UK, US
More information about location
Privacy Protection
Posted today
Privacy Protection
201-500 employees
B2CPrivacySaaS
Posted today
$178.5k
Salary in US currency, may vary in other locations + Stock options
Senior and Expert level
Remote from Canada, Europe, UK, US
More information about location
201-500 employees
B2CPrivacySaaS
Company mission
To show the world that protecting privacy is simple.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in product design and/or design engineering roles, including 2+ years in senior-level design positions at significant global consumer brands
- Ability to communicate visual and interaction recommendations with high-quality mockups, prototypes, and rationale
- Comfortable partnering with engineers as a peer, reasoning about your decisions in PR reviews and contributing code where it's the fastest route to the right result
- Experience defining requirements and developing tools that help accelerate both design and engineering workflows, and retain both quality and consistency of our design system across design and code
- An ability to prototype in code to a production standard, with an understanding of semantic markup and accessibility, leveraging but not relying on AI tooling
- Fluency in motion and interaction as implemented behaviour, not just specified intent; easing curves, spring physics, and interruptible transitions that hold up under real conditions
- Experience structuring a design system beyond component inventory; token layering, primitive versus semantic naming, and holding parity between design source and code
- 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
- Accustomed to applying agentic solutions into everyday 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, and are comfortable instrumenting your own work so measurement isn't a hand-off
- Ability to take initiative in generating ideas and carrying them forward with urgency and discretion, while working openly and collaboratively
What the job involves
- Working on the Design Functional Team, this role is design-first; leveraging your expertise in product design and obsessing over the details to help us maintain a high level of craft across our products, such as Duck.ai, native apps, and search
- At DuckDuckGo, Design owns quality end to end, and that's where your engineering skills come in. The unique role you will have leverages your coding skills and engineering knowledge to ensure that the execution of our designs meets our quality bar
- You're fluent enough in code to prototype, spec precisely, and partner with engineers as a peer to demonstrate how to interpret our designs and interaction
- Your design engineering expertise will close the gap between the design that was intended and the product that actually ships by working directly in the codebase, and with our front-end engineers, to make sure execution clears the bar you set
- You'll also be our 2nd Design Engineer at the company, so there are many leadership opportunities to help grow and shape the role and discipline
- As a Senior Design Engineer on the Product Design team 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 engineering 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
- You’ll be required to attend meetings on camera via video conferencing
- While we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week
Application process
- A successful candidate must pass a background check as a condition of joining the team
- 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
Our take
Companies are making money off of people's private information online without their consent. DuckDuckGo believes the internet shouldn't be this invasive and that getting the privacy you deserve online should be an easily accessible option.
With the company's Privacy Essentials desktop browser extension for Safari, Firefox, & Chrome and the mobile DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser for iOS & Android, users can block trackers, secure connections, and search anonymously, so they are protected on any device anywhere.
The company's app is downloaded more than 50M times a year, and its private search engine has become the #2 search engine on mobile in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the Netherlands. DuckDuckGo's next steps include a suite of new privacy solutions, including Email Protection, App Tracking Protection and its first-ever Desktop Apps for Mac and Windows.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Top investors
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2021
$59m
SERIES C
Aug 2018
$10m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $72m
Company benefits
- Office Setup: To help you get your office set up, we reimburse up to $1,250 USD to cover the purchase of office productivity items, such as desk, chair, computer monitors, keyboards, etc
- Co-working: Should you prefer to work from a co-working space, we reimburse the cost up to $500 USD per month
- Wellness Stipend: To promote your physical and mental health, we offer a Wellness Stipend of up to $1,000 USD per year
- Learning Stipend: To promote your professional development and reinforce our culture of self-directed learning and skill-building, we offer a Learning Stipend of up to $1,250 USD per year
- Charitable Donation Matching: We match on qualified charitable donations of up to $1,000 per year
- Assistance Program: We offer counseling services provided through Workplace Options to help you and your family manage life-stressors
- Company Events: We have annual company retreats, team meetups, and optional “work-ations” where you work with colleagues in various destinations around the world. Every quarter we hold 3-day long Hack Days, during which we work on whatever we want
- Remote First, Always: We've always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world. We trust you to get your work done wherever, whenever
- Flexible Time Off: We trust you to use good judgment to take time off as needed so that you can be your best at work. Our CEO sets a good example by taking regular vacations and encouraging the rest of the team to do the same
- Healthcare - Medical, Dental, Vision (US Only) 🇺🇸
Company values
- Building trust - By building trust, we do right by our users and our staff
- Questioning assumptions - By questioning assumptions, we reject bias and elevate the quality of our work
- Validating direction - By validating direction, we grow fast and sustainably
Company HQ
Paoli, PA
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Leadership
Gabriel Weinberg
(Founder & CEO)Studied Physics at MIT. Previously co-author of Traction and Super Thinking.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at DuckDuckGo
- At DuckDuckGo, our vision is to raise the standard of trust online, and our mission is to show the world that protecting privacy is simple. Having a diverse, inclusive, and equitable team is critical to achieving those goals
- Online privacy abuses make the Internet worse for everyone by weaponizing our personal data in ways that create exploitation, discrimination, polarization, and chilling effects, among other problems. We can't build world-class solutions to these problems without a world-class team. That is why we seek to recruit, retain, and support the continued growth of talented and high-performing people of all different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences
- Our commitment to embracing diversity and empowering all team members is rooted in our core values: build trust, question assumptions, and validate direction. The willingness to validate direction by engaging in the sometimes uncomfortable process of questioning each other's assumptions and being questioned ourselves can only exist in a trusted space — an inclusive and welcoming environment — which is critical to rejecting bias and building a world-class, globally-used product
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