Hi, we’re DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company for everyone who wants to take back their privacy now. For over a decade, we’ve been building our all-in-one product, developing new privacy technology, and working with policymakers to make online privacy simple and accessible for all.

The Opportunity
In this role, you’ll work closely with design, engineering, user insights, product, and legal teams to shape the DuckDuckGo product and brand experience, continuing to build the trust we’ve earned with users over the last decade and helping DuckDuckGo grow.

You’ll encourage users to adopt and retain our products by developing clear, concise copy that elegantly transforms complex UX problems into opportunities for user action and education. As a company-wide authority on copy dilemmas, large and small, you’ll manage multiple content projects simultaneously, validating content decisions through user research, reasoning, and data.

What You Will Bring to DuckDuckGo
1. At least five years of UX writing/copywriting experience.
2. Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through postmortem.
3. Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a strong focus on metrics.
4. Proven success in moving product, design, and brand team KPIs through increased user adoption, retention, and engagement.
5. Ability to translate product and brand goals into words that empower users to take action across platforms.
6. Unyielding dedication to empathy and simplicity when finding the right words to help users understand technical concepts.
7. A thorough understanding of how to refine and optimize short-form content via collaboration, user testing, and experimentation.
8. Experience collaborating with experts across functions, including design, legal, engineering, and partnerships to distill requirements and validate direction.
9. A well-defined, battle-tested, and flexible creative writing process.
10. Grammatical excellence, expertise, and agility with the English language, with a vast vocabulary and deep understanding of style, diction, and structure.