Senior Product Design Engineer — End-to-End, Remote-First

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 161,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits (US)

Stock options

Co-working allowance

Job summary

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search company, is seeking a Senior Product Design Engineer. You will own end-to-end design quality across products, from ideation to production, and collaborate closely with engineers to bridge design and code.

You will prototype in code, shape design systems, and lead high-impact projects with autonomy. You will work within a remote-first, US-based team, earning stock options and a competitive compensation package.

Qualifications

• 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 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.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design quality across DuckDuckGo products including Duck.ai, native apps, and related projects.
• Lead high-impact design initiatives from ideation to execution with a voice in product decisions.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and other stakeholders to ensure design quality and consistency.
• Create production-ready prototypes and precise specifications to accelerate development.
• Contribute to building and evolving a scalable design system and design-to-code parity.

Skills

Product design

Design leadership

Code prototyping

Design systems

Accessibility

Research methods

Cross-functional

Prioritization

Job description

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search company, is seeking a Senior Product Design Engineer. You will own end-to-end design quality across products, from ideation to production, and collaborate closely with engineers to bridge design and code.

You will prototype in code, shape design systems, and lead high-impact projects with autonomy. You will work within a remote-first, US-based team, earning stock options and a competitive compensation package.