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DuckDuckGo

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2008

🔒 Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity • Software

DuckDuckGo is an independent Internet privacy company dedicated to providing users with tools that enhance their online privacy. Best known for its search engine, DuckDuckGo offers a free web browser and browser extensions for iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows that include built-in privacy features such as tracker blocking, encryption, and email protection. Unlike traditional search engines and browsers that track search and browsing history, DuckDuckGo prioritizes user privacy by preventing tracking and targeted advertising. The company operates on the premise that privacy should be simple and accessible, offering a private alternative to major tech companies while remaining financially sustainable through non-invasive ads based on search results rather than personal data.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary legal advisor to the CEO, executive team, and board on strategy, risk, regulatory developments, and sensitive legal matters. • Work closely with the policy team, providing legal counsel on EU and US regulatory matters including DMA, DSA, EU AI Act, and US privacy legislation. • Direct global privacy compliance, ensuring DuckDuckGo products and practices stay ahead of GDPR, US state privacy laws, and emerging data protection requirements. • Direct company legal strategy and outside counsel in complex regulatory and competition proceedings that directly shape DuckDuckGo's business. • Manage and develop the legal team, set priorities, build the legal operating model, and develop team members. • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Security on legal implications of AI features, new product launches, advertising formats, and data practices. • Evolve legal operations infrastructure: intake workflows, outside counsel management, budget ownership, and playbooks across key practice areas. • Advise on employment matters, IP strategy, and corporate transactions as DuckDuckGo grows. • Own corporate governance and support strategic transactions, including M&A and financing rounds. • And work on related projects.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of legal experience, including 10+ years in-house at a consumer-facing technology company. • 7+ years of progressive experience in legal leadership roles, including 2+ years in positions of comparable seniority (VP, Deputy General Counsel, etc.). • JD and active bar membership in at least one US jurisdiction. • Familiarity with corporate governance and strategic transactions, including M&A, financing rounds, or board advisory work, sufficient to own these matters as the company grows. • Deep expertise in at least two of DuckDuckGo's highest-stakes legal domains: privacy/data protection, technology platform regulation, or antitrust/competition law. • Demonstrated ability to advise executives on complex legal risk and manage significant litigation and regulatory proceedings. • Track record managing legal teams and outside counsel across multiple jurisdictions. • Strong commercial instincts and a business enabler known for sound judgment, not reflexive caution.

🏖️ Benefits

• Compensation is transparent across the organization, and all team members within the same professional level and global region receive the same compensation. • Eligibility for company-sponsored health benefits is limited to team members based in the United States. • Paid parental leave • Office setup • Co-working allowances