Senior Product Design Engineer

DuckDuckGo is an online protection company and remote-first team focused on raising the standard of trust online. The Senior Product Design Engineer will apply product design and engineering expertise to maintain quality across products, lead high-impact projects, prototype and contribute code, and help shape the design engineering discipline.

Responsibilities:

• Working on the Design Functional Team, this role is design-first, leveraging your product design expertise and obsession with craft to help us maintain quality across our products, including Duck.ai, native apps, search and related projects
• At DuckDuckGo, Design owns quality end to end, and your engineering skills close the gap between the design that's intended and the product that ships
• You're fluent enough in code to prototype, spec precisely, and partner with engineers as a peer, working directly in the codebase to make sure execution clears the bar you set!
• As our 2nd Design Engineer, you'll have real leadership opportunities to shape the role and discipline!
• As a Senior Product Design Engineer, you'll collaborate across levels to solve problems in our current products and pioneer new ones as we build the privacy layer for the Internet
• You'll autonomously lead high-impact projects at scale from ideation to execution with a voice in product design decisions large and small

Requirements:

• 7+ years in product design roles, including 2+ years senior-level at significant global consumer brands
• Pushes creative limits on hard design problems, delivering delight, craft, and exceptional quality
• Communicates visual and interaction recommendations through high-quality mockups, rationale, prototypes, and specific motion variables
• Partners with engineers as a peer — reasoning about decisions in PR reviews, contributing code where it raises design quality
• Prototypes in code to a production standard, with an understanding of semantic markup and accessibility, leveraging but not relying on AI
• Experience structuring a design system beyond component inventory: token layering, primitive vs. semantic naming, design-to-code parity
• Proficient in research and experimentation, using both qualitative and quantitative data, comfortable instrumenting your own work
• Experience participating in multiple areas of the product process including prioritization, strategy, and user testing
• Takes initiative - generates ideas and carries them forward with urgency and discretion, while working openly
• Experience defining requirements and building tools that accelerate design and engineering workflows while retaining design system quality and consistency
• You'll be required to attend meetings on camera via video conferencing
• 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
• While we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week