Senior Brand Strategist, DuckDuckGo
$178.5k
Salary in US currency, may vary by location + Stock options
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Privacy Protection
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Privacy Protection
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$178.5k
Salary in US currency, may vary by location + Stock options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To show the world that protecting privacy is simple.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in brand positioning and strategy work. This role is not in charge of ad creative development, though contributes to those projects
- You demonstrate a strong sense of ownership. Experience executing on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through post-mortem. No task is too small
- Skills to wrangle vague problems and propose innovative and pragmatic solutions
- Strong attention to detail. You catch the small things others miss
- Demonstrated experience and proficiency in leveraging qualitative and quantitative data to guide creative decisions
- You're a persuasive writer with experience crafting brand guidelines and messaging frameworks
- 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
What the job involves
- While you'll be based on the Marketing Communications Functional Team, in this role, you will work across the marketing, product, content, engineering, and design teams to ensure every experience a user has with our brand is consistent and feels like DuckDuckGo
- You'll help us understand what makes our tens of millions of users unique by developing in-depth insights about our user segments, their needs and motivations, and translating those insights into our user-facing touchpoints such as ads and product pages
- Recent projects include:
- Coordinating cross-team work related to visual identity evolution, both in and out of the product
- Execute innovative social campaign activations to drive word-of-mouth growth
- While we encourage everyone at DuckDuckGo to be a steward of the brand, as a Brand Strategist, you'll be a go-to resource to help make sure it's being executed on effectively
- 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
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
Articles
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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