Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

About the Position

Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

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Join DuckDuckGo as a Senior Product Designer, Design Systems to lead and shape our design system, ensuring privacy and trust online.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of our design system at a pivotal moment, with a chance to define both a role and a roadmap from the ground up.
• Audit our existing system, lead projects that move it forward across platforms and products like Duck.ai and Search.
• Shape how we manage and scale our design system as we grow.
• Apply hands-on design skills to lead highly impactful projects that scale across millions of users.
• Collaborate with team members at all levels to pioneer new solutions as we build out the privacy layer for the internet.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in product or design systems roles, including 2+ years in senior-level design positions at significant global consumer brands.
• Demonstrable track record of building and scaling complex and established systems.
• Ability to lead the future of our design system, from audit, recommending solutions, and planning their rollout via quick wins or large-scale projects.
• Ability to communicate recommendations and prioritization with clear documentation, success metrics, resources, and rationale which stakeholders, designers, and engineers can confidently act on.
• Deep knowledge of design tools, such as Figma, that are key to evolving and maintaining the design system.
• Experience bridging design and engineering practices, including creating shared nomenclature and workflows that map across tools and platforms.

Nice to Have

• Accustomed to applying agentic and AI-driven solutions into design system management and maintenance workflows.
• Enjoy pushing creative limits while solving challenging design problems and delivering on delight, craft, and exceptional quality.

We Offer

• $178,500 USD annually and stock options.
• Company-sponsored health benefits for team members based in the United States.
• Paid parental leave, office setup, and co-working allowances.
• Flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expecting an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.

About the Company

Hi, we're DuckDuckGo, the online protection company and remote-first team of 400+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, our annual revenue is in the hundreds of millions USD and millions use our browser on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, our search engine, and the DuckDuckGo subscription. We also offer private, useful, and optional AI, including Duck.ai, which lets you chat privately with AIs, all in one place.

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!

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

DuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.

We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an email to [email protected] to let us know the nature of your request.

Hiring Process

Hiring works best when it's a two-way street. Learn how we help you get to know DuckDuckGo, envision your future role here, and find out more about how we hire.

Please Note

• 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.
• A successful candidate must pass a background check as a condition of joining the team.
• By applying for this role, you confirm that all information submitted is accurate and complete. You further acknowledge that providing false or fraudulent information during the application process is cause for denial of an offer, revocation of any existing offer, or other adverse action, up to and including termination after the start of your commencement of work.

Disclosure Statement: Use of AI in Hiring Process

As part of our commitment to enhancing our recruitment process, we utilize artificial intelligence (AI) technology to assist in reviewing and summarizing job applications and test projects, including those tools integrated into our recruitment vendor platforms. We use AI to flag potentially fraudulent applications, analyze and summarize applicants’ experience, interviews, and project performance, and help streamline our selection process.

Key Principles:

• Data Privacy: All information provided in your application will be handled in accordance with our Recruiting Privacy Policy. We ensure that your personal information is protected and used solely for recruitment purposes.
• Human Oversight and Accountability: The AI technology is designed to support our hiring team by providing insights and summaries of applications and evaluations of test projects against scoring rubrics. All final evaluations and hiring decisions, however, will be made by our hiring team, who will consider the AI's input alongside other factors.
• Transparency: We believe in transparency regarding our hiring practices. If you have any questions about how AI is used in our recruitment process, please feel free to reach out to us.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge and consent to the use of AI technology in our review process. If you would like to request an alternative selection process, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you for your interest in joining DuckDuckGo!