Senior Product Designer
About The Position
DuckDuckGo is seeking a Senior Product Designer to identify and solve problems across its current products and help pioneer new solutions for a privacy layer for the Internet. The role explores and tests concepts to improve product experiences, increase delight, and appeal to a broader audience. The designer will autonomously lead high-impact projects that reach millions of users, taking them from ideation through execution. This includes assessing ambiguous problems, proposing solutions, and delivering against success criteria. The role contributes to product design decisions and supports DuckDuckGo’s ethical, privacy-by-design approach.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience in product design roles, including at least 2 years in senior-level design positions at significant global consumer brands.
- Proficiency managing projects of varying complexity from proposal through execution and release, collaborating transparently with cross-functional stakeholders and contributors.
- Ability to push creative limits while solving challenging design problems and delivering delight, craft, and exceptional quality.
- Ability to communicate visual and interaction recommendations with high-quality mockups, prototypes, and rationale.
- Experience applying agentic solutions in everyday project management and design execution workflows to accelerate work and improve its quality.
- Ability to write creative briefs that clearly communicate project goals, rationale, and success metrics.
- Proficiency in research and experimentation, using qualitative and quantitative data to drive decisions.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, clarify vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute with a focus on metrics.
- Ability to take initiative, generate ideas, and carry them forward with urgency and discretion while working openly and collaboratively.
- Willingness to educate, guide, and support others and steward quality of execution across designated design areas.
- Experience participating in multiple parts of the product process, including prioritization, strategy, and user testing.
Responsibilities
- Identify and solve problems across existing products and help develop new solutions.
- Explore and test concepts that improve the user experience, increase delight, and appeal to a broader audience.
- Lead high-impact design projects autonomously from ideation through execution and release.
- Assess ambiguous problems, propose impactful solutions, and execute against success criteria.
- Communicate visual and interaction recommendations through mockups, prototypes, and rationale.
- Write creative briefs that define project goals, rationale, and success metrics.
- Use qualitative and quantitative research and experimentation to inform decisions.
- Participate in product prioritization, strategy, and user testing.
- Educate, guide, and support others, and help maintain quality of execution across designated design areas.
- Collaborate transparently with cross-functional stakeholders and contributors.
Benefits
- Stock options.
- Paid parental leave.
- Office setup support.
- Co-working allowances.
- Company-sponsored health benefits for team members based in the United States.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
