DuckDuckGo

Developing and implementing frameworks to improve organizational performance and talent retention, with a focus on data-driven decision making. | Proven experience in organizational performance, talent management, or HR systems, with strong analytical and strategic skills. | Who We Are Hi, we're DuckDuckGo, the online protection company and remote-first team of 300+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, annual revenue now exceeds $100m USD and millions use our browser on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, our search engine, and the DuckDuckGo subscription. 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! Your Team and Role Working on the People Operations Functional Team, you’ll use your complex tactical and strategic skills to boost organizational performance by developing, enabling, and retaining talent in alignment with DuckDuckGo's core values. Recent projects include: Restructuring our Performance Review Process for scalability; pushing decision-making farther down to functional teams Clarifying accountability chains in our distributed leadership environment, across Career Advisors, Objective DRIs, Functional DRIs and other leadership roles Creating automated Work Summaries that represent >80% of team members’ work to be delivered to everyone for self reflection and evaluations As a Director, People Operations, you’ll tackle ambiguous organizational challenges using your sharply honed execution skills, deep fluency with data and refined pragmatism that enables you to achieve ethical results quickly. Most of your work will be with performance systems, like our bespoke annual performance review process, mid-cycle check-ins and company-wide engagement insofar as it delivers performance results. About You You process complexity with high-throughput; you achieve through hard work, leadership and efficiency, but not long hours. You operate as a tactician; while you are conversant in strategy, you thrive in getting stuff done yourself as well. You have experience facing ambiguous organizational performance challenges, chunking them out, and tackling them one by one, leading others as necessary. You have proven experience building frameworks and approaches for problems that don't have obvious solutions or established playbooks / best practices. You are able to deeply articulate your proposals through data and results; you are able to run experiments targeting expected outcomes. You aren’t afraid to show your work; you seek feedback on your initiatives before you reach diminishing returns and you’re hungry for others’ input to improve outcomes. You are comfortable and adept at operating in a concise, asynchronous environment while building relationships cross-functionally to operationalize your initiatives. You have a knack for translating culture into principles, protocols and algorithms, but keeping the heart in it. Compensation $243,800 USD annually and stock options. Compensation is identical within professional levels, regardless of geographic location or team. Compensation for each professional level is transparent across the organization. Eligibility for company-sponsored health benefits is limited to team members based in the United States. This program does not extend to team members located in other countries, such as Canada or the UK. Our Team Member Support Guide explains how we prioritize your wellbeing including paid parental leave, office setup, and co-working allowances. 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. 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 careers@duckduckgo.com to let us know the nature of your request. Please note that: 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. 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 as at careers@duckduckgo.com. Thank you for your interest in joining DuckDuckGo!

As a Senior Motion Designer, you will lead marketing and product design projects from brief through delivery, balancing creative craft with performance goals. You will partner with various teams to ship impactful work and help shape motion best practices. | Candidates should have 7+ years of experience in motion design, ideally in-house at a fast-paced consumer brand. Strong proficiency in After Effects and Adobe CC is required, along with experience in shipping motion creative across various formats. | Who We Are Hi, we're DuckDuckGo, the online protection company and remote-first team of 300+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, annual revenue now exceeds $100m USD and millions use our browser on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, our search engine, and the latest — Privacy Pro. 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! Your Team and Role Working on the Design Team, you'll help define and elevate DuckDuckGo’s visual storytelling across marketing and product surfaces, using tools like After Effects, Adobe CC, and 3D platforms such as Cinema 4D or Blender, and work on related projects. Recent projects include: Our latest TV Campaign which used motion design to dynamically abstract and visualize our product experience. In-product motion moments both big and small, such as micro-animations that draw attention to our Search engine AI tools and larger brand-differentiation moments like the flame animation when users "burn" their data in the app. As a Senior Motion Designer you’ll lead marketing (TV ads, digital video etc.) and product design projects from brief through delivery, balancing creative craft with performance goals. You’ll partner with marketing, product, legal, and external vendors to ship impactful work, contribute to cross-functional creative testing, and help shape motion best practices. You’ll also help evolve our team’s templates and workflows to support efficiency at scale, as our first motion designer. About You Ability to lead and collaborate on complex projects from proposal through post-mortem. 7+ years experience working in motion design, ideally in-house at a fast-paced consumer brand. Strong proficiency in After Effects and Adobe CC. Demonstrable experience shipping motion creative across a variety of formats (TV, social, product) and tailoring content for each channel. Working knowledge of 3D illustration tools like Cinema 4D or Blender — strong 3D skills are preferred, but not required. Deep understanding of how creative ties to growth and performance goals; able to deliver motion work that is both high-quality and effective. Experience partnering with marketing, product, legal, and external agencies. Bonus: Familiarity with integrating motion into video editing Compensation $178,500 USD annually and stock options. Compensation is identical within professional levels, regardless of geographic location or team. Compensation for each professional level is transparent across the organization. Our Team Member Support Guide explains how we prioritize your wellbeing including paid parental leave, office setup, and co-working allowances. 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. 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 careers@duckduckgo.com to let us know the nature of your request. Please note that 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. 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.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will build and maintain infrastructure to support millions of users. You will tackle complex operational challenges and ensure the reliability of large-scale deployments. | Candidates should have over 7 years of experience in reliability or software engineering and be able to lead complex projects. Strong programming skills and experience with cloud-native architectures are essential. | Who We Are Hi, we're DuckDuckGo, the online protection company and remote-first team of 300+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, our annual revenue now exceeds $100 million USD. Millions use our browser on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, our search engine, and our latest product — Privacy Pro. 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! Your Team and Role Working on the Site Reliability Team, you'll help build and maintain world-class infrastructure to meet the needs of millions of users protecting their privacy online. You'll utilize high-level languages like Perl, Go, or Python and work on related projects. Recent projects include: Preparing Duck.ai image uploads for production Reduce user impact of instances serving errors to users As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll dive deep into complex operational challenges, including software, systems, automation, and process analysis. We are looking for candidates who can read, write, troubleshoot, and deploy all types of software to help us tackle the reliability challenges of large-scale deployments. About You 7+ years relevant professional experience in reliability, platform, infrastructure, or software engineering. Experience participating in a 24x7 on-call rotation for a large-scale deployment. Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through post-mortem. Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a strong focus on metrics. Experience developing effective tools, services, alerts, and responses to identify and address reliability risks. Investigative ability to root-cause sources of instability in high-traffic, distributed systems. Deep experience administering and troubleshooting Linux and web technologies. Ability to implement automation around infrastructure provisioning and configuration management to prioritize efficiency, scalability and reliability. Foresight to help identify the future technical direction of our deployment with an effort to improve reliability and performance. Advanced programming skills enabling close partnership with software engineers to triage production issues and identify appropriate remediation, including code changes and performance considerations. Ability to leverage cloud-native services and architectures to enhance reliability and scalability, with hands-on experience packaging and deploying applications using Docker and Docker Compose. Compensation $178,500 USD annually and stock options. Compensation is identical within professional levels, regardless of geographic location or team. Compensation for each professional level is transparent across the organization. Our Team Member Support Guide explains how we prioritize your wellbeing, including paid parental leave, office setup, and co-working allowances. 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. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion DuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, prohibiting discrimination and harassment of any type based on 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 laws. We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process due to a medical condition or disability, please email careers@duckduckgo.com to let us know the nature of your request. Please Note: You’ll be required to attend meetings on camera via video conferencing. Expect to travel at least twice 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. 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. Providing false or fraudulent information during the application process may result in denial of an offer, revocation of any existing offer, or other adverse actions, including termination after starting work. #LI-DNI