Privacy Engineering Director

DuckDuckGo is the online protection company, a remote-first team of 300+ raising the standard of trust online with a private browser, search engine, and subscription used by millions. As Privacy Engineering Director on the Privacy Functional Team, you will be the privacy engineering leader who steps in on the most complex, ambiguous, and high-stakes privacy challenges across the products. Recent projects include building a privacy engineering framework for DuckDuckGo agentic browsing products, solving novel challenges around user data in AI-assisted workflows, and designing technical solutions that enable private search index capabilities while preserving strict privacy guarantees at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own high-complexity privacy projects from definition to delivery, leading critical initiatives that shape the future of private browsing, private search, and agentic computing.
• Evolve the company privacy triage and review processes, building scalable review systems.
• Build automation that reduces engineering toil across privacy workflows.
• Grow the next generation of privacy engineers through direct management, hiring, and mentorship.
• Contribute significantly to privacy strategy across the company, translating privacy principles into practical engineering decisions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience leading privacy reviews, audits, or technical privacy programs at a consumer-facing product company with a large user base of 1M+.
• 4+ years of privacy engineering leadership, 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 be the directly responsible individual on 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.