Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take charge of DuckDuckGo’s design system and establish its roadmap from inception.

• Evaluate the current design system.

• Lead design-system initiatives across various platforms and products, including Duck.ai and Search.

• Develop processes for managing and expanding the design system.

• Independently manage high-impact projects that cater to millions of users.

• Work collaboratively with team members at all levels to create privacy-centered solutions.

• Analyze complex problems, suggest impactful solutions, and execute based on established success criteria.

• Influence product-related design decisions.

• Convey visual and interaction recommendations through mockups, prototypes, documentation, metrics, and reasoning.

• Collaborate with design and engineering teams to create unified workflows and terminology.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in product or design systems roles.

• More than 2 years in senior design positions at notable global consumer brands.

• Proven history of developing and scaling intricate and well-established systems.

• Capability to lead design-system evaluations, suggest solutions, and plan implementations.

• Proficient in communicating recommendations and prioritizations with well-defined documentation, success metrics, resources, and justifications.

• Skilled at creating scalable frameworks, including tokens and libraries, across different platforms and teams.

• Extensive knowledge of design tools like Figma.

• Experience in bridging design and engineering practices, including shared terminology and workflows.

• Familiarity with applying agentic and AI-driven solutions to design-system management and maintenance processes.

• Competent in producing high-quality mockups, prototypes, and justifications.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity, propose innovative solutions, and execute with a focus on metrics.

• Required to participate in meetings on camera through video conferencing.

• Average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.

• Must successfully pass a background check as a prerequisite for joining.

• Portfolio is mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Stock options.

• Paid parental leave.

• Office setup allowance.

• Co-working allowances.

• Flexible work arrangement with no designated core hours.

• Company-sponsored health benefits for team members located in the United States.

• Global all-hands meetup and team retreat travel, each lasting approximately 4–5 days.