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Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

Location: Remote · Category: Product & Design · Seniority: Senior · Posted: October 1, 2026 · Verified: Oct 5, 2026

Role Overview & Description

This Senior Product Designer role is the first design systems role at DuckDuckGo, owning the design system from audit to roadmap and scaling it across platforms and products like Duck.ai and Search. The designer leads high-impact projects, communicates recommendations with documentation and success metrics, and creates frameworks like tokens and libraries. Requires 7+ years in product or design systems roles with 2+ years at senior level at global consumer brands.
Source & Transparency: This position was structured directly from the publicly accessible career portal of DuckDuckGo. Details on the employer’s original job posting are authoritative. Polaris7 charges no placement fees and conducts no candidate screening.

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Privacy-first search, browser and consumer protection platform.

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