Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DuckDuckGo is an online protection company and remote-first team focused on raising the standard of trust online. The Senior Product Design Engineer will use design engineering and coding expertise to ensure product designs are executed to a high quality across DuckDuckGo’s products, while autonomously leading impactful projects and helping shape the design engineering discipline.
Responsibilities
- Working on the Design Functional Team, this role is design-first; leveraging your expertise in product design and obsessing over the details to help us maintain a high level of craft across our products, such as Duck.ai, native apps, and search
- Your design engineering expertise will close the gap between the design that was intended and the product that actually ships by working directly in the codebase, and with our front-end engineers, to make sure execution clears the bar you set
- As a Senior Design Engineer on the Product Design team you will collaborate with team members at all levels to identify and solve problems across our current product offering, as well as helping to pioneer new solutions as we build out the privacy layer for the Internet
- 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
- Applying your hands-on design engineering 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
Skills
- 1. 7+ years of experience in product design and/or design engineering roles, including 2+ years in senior-level design positions at significant global consumer brands
- 2. Ability to communicate visual and interaction recommendations with high-quality mockups, prototypes, and rationale
- 3. Comfortable partnering with engineers as a peer, reasoning about your decisions in PR reviews and contributing code where it's the fastest route to the right result
- 4. Experience defining requirements and developing tools that help accelerate both design and engineering workflows, and retain both quality and consistency of our design system across design and code
- 5. An ability to prototype in code to a production standard, with an understanding of semantic markup and accessibility, leveraging but not relying on AI tooling
- 6. Fluency in motion and interaction as implemented behaviour, not just specified intent; easing curves, spring physics, and interruptible transitions that hold up under real conditions
- 7. Experience structuring a design system beyond component inventory; token layering, primitive versus semantic naming, and holding parity between design source and code
- 8. 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
- 9. Accustomed to applying agentic solutions into everyday project management and design execution workflows to both accelerate and raise the quality of your work
- 10. Ability to write creative briefs that clearly define and communicate project goals, rationale, and success metrics with stakeholders
- 11. Proficiency in research and experimentation. You can leverage both qualitative and quantitative data in driving decisions forward, and are comfortable instrumenting your own work so measurement isn't a hand-off
- 12. Ability to take initiative in generating ideas and carrying them forward with urgency and discretion, while working openly and collaboratively
- Please note that:
- 2. 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
- 3. While we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week
Benefits
- Stock options
- Eligibility for company-sponsored health benefits is limited to team members based in the United States.
- Paid parental leave
- Office setup
- Co-working allowances
- A flexible work arrangement with no core hours
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