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About Duck Duck GO.
DuckDuckGo is a remote company of 125+ passionate people from over 15 countries. Together, we're on a mission to show the world that protecting privacy can be simple.
Annual compensation: $109,000 - 132,333 USD and stock options. What you will do
Lead development of new hiring requisitions by collaborating with hiring teams on candidate evaluation criteria, evaluation project design, and writing the job description.
Propose and lead process improvement initiatives aimed at scaling our hiring operations.
Find unique ways to source candidates and execute experiments to determine effectiveness.
Own the end-to-end hiring process, including sourcing, screening resumes, interviewing applicants, extending offers, and managing the candidate experience.
Consult with hiring teams to offer insight into decision-making throughout the hiring process.
Participate in our passive hiring and internal referrals strategy.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Minimum of five years of experience in talent acquisition, leading end-to-end hiring processes.
Proven success in hiring for IT openings (e.g. software engineers, site reliability).
Experience leading or significantly contributing to hiring process improvement initiatives.
Strong organizational skills - you have an eye for detail and are not afraid to use it!
Effective project management skills.
Strong communication skills - you clearly articulate your recommendations and decisions, whether verbal or written.
Comfortable providing feedback to an array of internal and external stakeholders.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Annual compensation: $175,333 — $229,200 USD and stock options.
Propose and lead high-complexity projects, turning vague problems into tightly-scoped high-impact projects and executing them against a set of success criteria.
Assist in growing a team of in-house attorneys dedicated to enabling DuckDuckGo's growth. You will be expected to be a leader on the team and participate in hiring and mentoring attorneys and emerging leaders.
Serve as principal legal advisor on relevant business operations.
Support contracting, from vendor selection (including GDPR compliance) through contract execution, drafting template agreements, managing existing contracts, and advising on best practices, standards, and model clauses in transactional law.
Develop internal policies and procedures to ensure compliance with international, federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
Assist in navigating HR and immigration issues, both domestic and international.
Review marketing materials for compliance with advertising law.
Timely respond to subpoenas and manage document production in litigation.
Analyze legal issues through risk assessment, risk management, and pragmatic decision-making lenses, rather than simply identifying areas of potential legal risk.
Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced, innovative, rapidly changing environment. getting up to speed on new areas of law quickly and effectively, and comfortably in a startup business environment.
Assist with online privacy and tech policy issues when needed.
Work closely and collaboratively with our General Counsel and the broader DuckDuckGo team.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Minimum of 10+ years of experience as a US attorney, ideally with 2+ years as an in-house counsel at a fast-growing technology company.
4+ years of experience in leadership roles (e.g. Head of Legal, Director, Associate General Counsel).
Licensed to practice law in the U.S.
Experience in counseling technical product teams.
Background in general corporate, privacy/GDPR, marketing, advertising, licensing, financing, and employment issues.
Pennsylvania Bar membership, or willingness and ability to waive in.
Superior written and verbal communication skills.
Strong project management skills, with the ability to carry ideas forward with confidence and discretion while working proactively, independently, and transparently.
Annual compensation: $144,000 — $180,956 USD and stock options.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Propose and lead high-complexity projects, turning vague problems into tightly-scoped high-impact projects and executing them against a set of success criteria with little to moderate direction.
Advice on projects of medium to high complexity with little to moderate direction.
Serve as principal legal advisor on certain transactions and business relationships.
Liaison between internal teams and external legal firms on various matters to make sure internal teams and projects are not roadblocked.
Fully support contracting, from vendor selection through contract execution, drafting template agreements, developing communication channels and databases to manage contracts, advising on best practices, standards, and model clauses in transactional law.
Assist in navigating HR both in the US and outside the US.
Review marketing materials for compliance with advertising law.
Timely respond to subpoenas and manage document production in litigation.
Develop internal policies and procedures to ensure that DuckDuckGo conducts its business in compliance with applicable international, federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
Analyze legal issues through risk assessment, risk management, and pragmatic decision-making lenses, rather than simply identifying areas of potential legal risk.
Get up to speed on new areas of law quickly and effectively, in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
Work closely and collaboratively with the General Counsel and the broad DuckDuckGo team.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Minimum of 7+ years of experience as a US attorney, ideally with 2+ years as an in-house counsel at a fast-growing technology company.
Licensed to practice law in the U.S.
Experience in counseling technical product teams.
Background in general corporate, privacy/GDPR, marketing, advertising, licensing, financing, and employment issues.
Pennsylvania Bar membership, or willingness and ability to waive in.
Superior written and verbal communication skills.
Strong project management skills, with the ability to carry ideas forward with confidence and discretion while working proactively, independently, and transparently.
Annual compensation: $144,000 USD and stock options.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Lead projects from proposal through postmortem, assessing vague problems, proposing high impact solutions, and executing them against a set of success criteria.
Help develop consumer privacy applications on Windows
Be an expert at the company in C# and the Windows application development ecosystem.
Step up to resolve product issues, large and small.
Own major application features and takes responsibility for their maintenance and improvement over time.
Collaborate with peers remotely during product brainstorms, technical design discussions, and code reviews.
Write pragmatic, performant, and testable code that works consistently across devices.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Advanced level of .NET core expertise.
WPF expertise or willingness to learn
Experience working on at least one complex, consumer-facing product
Experience participating in technical architecture decisions for complex products.
Deep understanding of software design patterns such as MVVM, MVP, etc.
Comfortable learning new languages and ideas.
Experience collaborating with product/design to build a polished consumer-facing product.
Exceptional project management skills.
Creative problem-solvers and risk-takers. You like to take initiative to push projects forward and know when to involve others.
Annual compensation: $144,000 USD and stock options.
What you will do
Lead projects from proposal through postmortem, assessing vague problems, proposing high-impact solutions, and executing them against a set of success criteria.
Step up to resolve product issues, large and small.
Identify opportunities to increase searches and raise the standard of trust online.
Own major application features and takes responsibility for their maintenance and improvement over time.
Collaborate with peers remotely during product brainstorms, technical design discussions, pair programming sessions, and code reviews.
Write pragmatic, performant, and testable code that works consistently across devices. Work to improve the quality of the codebase on a regular basis.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Significant Android engineering experience (5+ years), with experience working on at least two large native Android applications.
Experience programming in Kotlin.
Deep understanding of software design patterns such as MVVM, MVP, etc., mobile threading, and memory management and how they apply to mobile applications.
A fundamental understanding of complex data structures and algorithms.
Ability to leverage both quantitative and qualitative data and collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop effective UX solutions.
Effective project management skills.
Creative problem-solvers and risk-takers. You like to take initiative to push projects forward but know when to involve others.
Excellent communication skills. You can validate your decisions and communicate them clearly.
COMPENSATION- Annual compensation: $144,000 USD and stock options.
What you will do
Lead projects from proposal through postmortem, assessing vague problems, proposing high impact solutions, and executing them against a set of success criteria.
Step up to resolve product issues – large and small.
Identify opportunities to increase searches and enhance the standard of trust online.
Own major application features and takes responsibility for their maintenance and improvement over time.
Collaborate with peers remotely during product brainstorms, technical design discussions, pair programming sessions, and code reviews.
Write pragmatic, performant, and testable code that works consistently across devices.
Always work to improve the quality of the codebase.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Significant iOS engineering experience (5+ years), with experience working on at least two large native iOS applications.
Experience programming in Swift.
Deep understanding of software design patterns such as MVVM, MVP, etc., mobile threading, and memory management and how they apply to mobile applications.
A fundamental understanding of complex data structures and algorithms, which enables you to develop and apply new solutions and confidently navigate and improve existing code.
Ability to leverage both quantitative and qualitative data and to collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop effective UX solutions.
Effective project management skills.
Creative problem-solvers and risk-takers. You like to take initiative to push projects forward but know when to involve others.
Excellent communication skills. You can validate your decisions and communicate them clearly.
Knowledge of Kotlin and willingness to do Android-related work would be considered a plus.
COMPENSATION Annual compensation: $144,000 USD and stock options.
What you will do
Help to identify opportunities to increase searches and enhance the standard of trust online.
Lead projects from proposal through postmortem, assessing vague problems, proposing high impact solutions, and executing them against a set of success criteria.
Own major application features and takes responsibility for their maintenance and improvement over time.
Play a key role in improving the software architecture.
Step up to resolve product issues – large and small.
Improve applications directly by proposing and implementing native solutions.
Collaborate with peers remotely during product brainstorms, technical design discussions, pair programming sessions, and code reviews.
Write pragmatic, performant, and testable code that works consistently across devices.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Previous experience working on at least two large native macOS/iOS applications, at least one of which is macOS.
Experience programming in Swift. Programming experience in JavaScript, Objective C, C++, Kotlin is a bonus.
Comfortable learning new languages and ideas.
Application architecture experience.
Deep understanding of software design patterns such as MVVM, MVP.
Familiarity with concurrency, and memory management and how they apply to applications.
Comfortable working with the different libraries and components on macOS.
Experience collaborating with a cross-functional team including UI/UX.
Experience or interest in project advisory, contributing strategically, and/or mentoring.
COMPENSATION Annual compensation: $175,333 USD and stock options. what you will do
Lead projects from proposal through postmortem, assessing problems, proposing high-impact solutions, and executing them against a set of success criteria.
Oversee collaboration of cross-functional teams to define, prioritize, and develop new products or features.
Take ownership of the product strategy for components of our privacy products.
Partner with the User Insights team to get to know our current and prospective users.
Maintain a high standard for product quality and help us meet it across our products.
Represent the company externally, such as to current or potential partners.
Understand how the privacy threat landscape is evolving and work with engineers to identify what new functionality we should integrate into our products to protect users against notable new threats.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
10+ years of experience, including 4+ years in leadership roles related to product development/management (e.g., Head, Principal, Director, etc.).
Experience leading features from inception through launch, including 2+ years of work on at least one product with a large, diverse user base (i.e., >500k weekly active users).
Proven strategic leadership skills including goal-setting, road mapping, and project resourcing.
Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience leveraging experiments and data to inform product decisions.
Experience collecting and learning from user feedback.
Excellent product intuition and taste.
Aptitude for translating complex technical topics (e.g., privacy on the Internet) into simple product solutions.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
COMPENSATION- Annual compensation: $191,000 USD and stock options. What you will do
Oversee the vision and roadmap for how millions adopt and use DuckDuckGo’s all-in-one privacy solution throughout the world.
Define and execute our product adoption funnel strategy, including goal-setting, hypothesis generation, road mapping, and managing experiment implementation.
Analyze our most important product flows and combine anonymous data with intuition to identify and prioritize the most impactful experiments that can improve product adoption.
Lead projects from proposal through postmortem, assessing problems, proposing high-impact solutions, and executing them against a set of success criteria.
Communicate strategy and progress updates weekly to key stakeholders in the company, your team members, and at our company-wide all-hands meeting.
Execute experiments methodically alongside cross-functional resources from design, front-end, back-end, mobile, and more.
What we are looking for
Significant prior experience planning and executing strategies to optimize product adoption flows.
Experience with product management and making intuitive decisions that are considerate of the user experience and produce the largest
desirable impact.
Experience and enthusiasm for managing people.
Effective project management skills.
Advanced modeling skills and understanding of statistics.
Strong verbal and written communication skills to explain recommendations and decisions.
Ability to confidently provide feedback to an array of stakeholders, internal and external.
COMPENSATION---Annual compensation: $191,000 USD and stock options.
What you will do
Lead and advise on high-complexity projects from proposal through postmortem, assessing problems, proposing high-impact solutions, and executing them against a set of success criteria.
Conduct end-to-end quantitative research using a wide variety of statistical methodologies to maximize our growth opportunities.
Collaborate with team members at all levels to measure the effectiveness our marketing campaigns and direct the development of our product.
Lead advanced analytical research using primary research combined with secondary databases or web-based sources.
Synthesize research findings into actionable insights and clearly communicate results throughout the organization.
Ensure all components of research studies are methodologically sound and adhere to best practices.
What we are looking for
Extensive experience leading complex qualitative research projects from beginning to end.
Ability to conduct and analyze quantitative research and present findings using clear, actionable, and appropriate mediums.
Ability to apply research skills to complex business objectives by combining and analyzing survey data with other external metrics.
Experience with advanced research techniques like MaxDiff, Factor Analysis, Key Driver Analysis, and other regression-based methods.
Strong organizational skills and a keen eye for detail.
Effective project management skills.
Strong verbal and written communication skills to explain recommendations and decisions.
Ability to confidently provide feedback to an array of stakeholders, internal and external.
Annual compensation: $159,667 USD and stock options.
What you will do
Lead projects from proposal through postmortem, assessing vague problems, proposing high impact solutions, and executing them against a set of success criteria.
Negotiate and close partnerships of moderate to high complexity with little oversight.
Manage relationships with existing partners and pursue opportunities to expand partnerships.
Contribute to strategy development, and identify, scope, and pursue business development opportunities.
Coordinate with internal teams (product, engineering, design, etc) to support objective needs and execute on partner integrations.
Coordinate with internal and external legal resources to structure and close partnership opportunities.
Participate in events, conferences, and PR functions when deemed of value.
Analyze partner performance metrics, in combination with market metrics and other public data, to recommend actionable opportunities.
What we are looking for
Past experience, minimum of 7+ years working in business development, with over 3 years in leading high complexity partnerships.
Proven success in similar roles, developing business opportunities, and structuring and closing high complexity partnerships, ideally in a web- or software-based business.
Experience negotiating complex partnerships including the ability to draft term sheets and contract language.
Experience navigating complicated business org structures, identifying and reaching decision-makers, crafting proposals, and driving successful outcomes.
Comfort working in a tech-forward environment and basic understanding of web technologies.
Familiarity with search, digital advertising, or e-commerce landscapes, with a strong awareness of established and disruptive brands.
Team-oriented and able to collaborate with others both within and beyond our functional team.
Focused critical thinking and problem-solving skills, devising improvements to processes, and contributing to strategy at the project and objective level.
Effective project management skills.
Strong communication skills: You clearly articulate, in verbal and written communication, your recommendations and decisions.
Comfortable providing feedback to an array of stakeholders, internal and external, in the organization.
Ability to work with partners based in the US east and west coast time zones.
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