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 th