Product Designer, DuckDuckGo
Senior, Lead or Principal
$178.5-243.8k
Offers Equity
Senior and Expert level
Remote from Canada, Ireland, Spain, UK, US
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Online privacy tools
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Online privacy tools
201-500 employees
B2CPrivacySaaS
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$178.5-243.8k
Offers Equity
Senior and Expert level
Remote from Canada, Ireland, Spain, 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
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Our take
Companies are making money off of people's private information online without your consent. DuckDuckGo believe 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, wherever.
The company's app is now 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 roll out of a suite of new privacy solutions, including Email Protection, App Tracking Protection and its first-ever Desktop Apps for Mac and Windows.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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
(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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