[Hiring] Senior Product Designer @DuckDuckGo

Role Description

As a Senior Product Designer, Design Systems you'll be the first of its kind at DuckDuckGo. You'll 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 — helping build the process, not just step into one.

• 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 the design system as we grow.
• Autonomously lead highly impactful projects that scale across millions of users.
• Collaborate with team members at all levels to pioneer new solutions.
• Assess vague problems, propose high-impact solutions, and execute them against a set of success criteria.
• Have a voice in all product-related design decisions.

Qualifications

• 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.
• A knack for balancing structure with scale by creating frameworks (tokens, libraries) that hold up across platforms and teams without sacrificing craft.
• Deep knowledge of design tools, such as Figma.
• Experience bridging design and engineering practices.
• Accustomed to applying agentic and AI-driven solutions into design system management and maintenance workflows.
• Enjoy pushing creative limits while solving challenging design problems.
• Ability to communicate visual and interaction recommendations with high-quality mockups, prototypes, and rationale.
• Skills to manage ambiguity and wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a focus on metrics.
• Ability to take initiative in generating ideas and carrying them forward with urgency and discretion.

Requirements

• Compensation: $178,500 USD annually and stock options.
• Eligibility for company-sponsored health benefits is limited to team members based in the United States.
• Team Member Support Guide explains how we prioritize your wellbeing including paid parental leave, office setup, and co-working allowances.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangement with no core hours.
• Expect to travel at least two times a year for team events.
• Average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.