Privacy Engineering Director
About the role
Working On The Privacy Functional Team, you'll be a Privacy Engineering Leader at DuckDuckGo. You'll step in on the most complex, ambiguous, and high-stakes privacy challenges that arise across our products. Using deep expertise in privacy engineering, audit frameworks, and cross-functional collaboration, you'll lead critical privacy initiatives that shape the future of private browsing, private search, agentic computing, and work on related projects.
Responsibilities
- Building a privacy engineering framework for DuckDuckGo's agentic browsing products
- Solving novel challenges around user data in AI-assisted workflows
- Designing technical solutions to enable private search index capabilities while preserving strict privacy guarantees at scale
- Owning high-complexity privacy projects from definition to delivery
- Evolving our privacy triage and review processes
- Building automation that reduces engineering toil
- Growing the next generation of privacy engineers
- Contributing significantly to privacy strategy across the company
Requirements
- 10+ years experience leading privacy reviews, audits, or technical privacy programs at a consumer-facing product company with a large (1M+) user base
- 4+ years privacy engineering leadership experience - building infrastructure tools, data minimization systems, or equivalent privacy-preserving technical solutions
- Director, Head of, or VP-level experience with direct management and hiring responsibilities and meaningful technical scope
- Proven ability to DRI high-complexity, cross-functional projects with minimal direction
- Strong communication skills, with a track record of translating privacy principles into practical engineering decisions across competing stakeholder needs
- Experience improving organizational processes — identifying bottlenecks, implementing automation, and building scalable review systems
- Passion for privacy and raising the standard of trust online
Qualifications
- Director, Head of, or VP-level experience with direct management and hiring responsibilities and meaningful technical scope
- Proven ability to DRI high-complexity, cross-functional projects with minimal direction
- Strong communication skills, with a track record of translating privacy principles into practical engineering decisions across competing stakeholder needs
- Experience improving organizational processes — identifying bottlenecks, implementing automation, and building scalable review systems
- Passion for privacy and raising the standard of trust online
Skills
- Deep expertise in privacy engineering, audit frameworks, and cross-functional collaboration
- Ability to lead critical privacy initiatives shaping the future of private browsing, private search, agentic computing, and related projects
- Experience in building privacy engineering frameworks and technical solutions
- Strong communication skills to translate privacy principles into practical engineering decisions
- Experience in improving organizational processes and building scalable review systems
- Possession of a passion for privacy and raising the standard of trust online
Benefits
- Compensation: $243,800 USD annually and stock options
- Company-sponsored health benefits are eligible for team members based in the United States only
- Team Member Support Guide explaining how we prioritize your wellbeing, including paid parental leave, office setup, and co-working allowances
Pay
$243,800 USD annually
Schedule
Average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week, with an average of 2 business trips per year (around 4-5 days each)
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