Privacy Engineering Director
About The Position
Working on the Privacy Functional Team, you'll be a privacy engineering leader at DuckDuckGo, the person who steps in on the most complex, ambiguous, and high-stakes privacy challenges that arise across our products. Using deep expertise in privacy engineering, audit frameworks, and cross-functional collaboration, you'll lead critical privacy initiatives that shape the future of private browsing, private search, agentic computing, and work on related projects. Recent projects include: Building a privacy engineering framework for DuckDuckGo's agentic browsing products, solving novel challenges around user data in AI-assisted workflows. Designing technical solutions to enable private search index capabilities while preserving strict privacy guarantees at scale. As Engineering Director, Privacy, you'll own high-complexity privacy projects from definition to delivery, evolve our privacy triage and review processes, build automation that reduces engineering toil, and grow the next generation of privacy engineers, all while contributing significantly to privacy strategy across the company.
Requirements
- 10+ years experience leading privacy reviews, audits, or technical privacy programs at a consumer-facing product company with a large (1M+) user base.
- 4+ years privacy engineering leadership experience - building infrastructure tools, data minimization systems, or equivalent privacy-preserving technical solutions.
- Director, Head of, or VP-level experience with direct management and hiring responsibilities and meaningful technical scope.
- Proven ability to DRI high-complexity, cross-functional projects with minimal direction.
- Strong communication skills, with a track record of translating privacy principles into practical engineering decisions across competing stakeholder needs.
- Experience improving organizational processes — identifying bottlenecks, implementing automation, and building scalable review systems.
- Passion for privacy and raising the standard of trust online.
Responsibilities
- Own high-complexity privacy projects from definition to delivery
- Evolve our privacy triage and review processes
- Build automation that reduces engineering toil
- Grow the next generation of privacy engineers
- Contribute significantly to privacy strategy across the company
Benefits
- Stock options
- Company-sponsored health benefits (limited to US-based team members)
- Paid parental leave
- Office setup allowance
- Co-working allowances
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
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