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Senior Product Partnerships Manager (Remote within USA or Canada)

DuckDuckGo

Location: Canada, USA Advertised pay: USD 200,267 / yearly Work arrangement: Region-restricted remote Employment: Full Time Posted: October 22, 2026 Freshness: Aging listing Source check: Observed in the current source window
Disclosure4 of 5 core facts statedReview uncertainties
Last source observationObserved in the current source windowObservation is not employer confirmation.
Application destinationjobicy.comReview the application route and source evidence in the full report below.

Before relying on the listing: Confirm Application closing time with the employer or source. See verification questions

Executive opportunity brief

The decision in one screen

A compact evidence-first read of compensation, flexibility, mobility and what still needs verification. No universal quality score is used.

Compensation positionAround the current median67 current same-currency observations
Work flexibilityRegion-restricted remoteBased only on stated location/work-arrangement evidence.
Decision evidence4 of 5 core facts knownThis listing states more core decision facts than the median role in the current sample.
Mobility evidenceSponsorship not establishedUnknown evidence is not treated as unavailable.
Current alternatives1524 current same-family rolesCurrent HPJ inventory, not the whole labor market.
Negotiation readinessNegotiation evidence available: advertised pay range, current same-currency market context, strong decision evidence.Use the private Offer & Negotiation Lab below if an offer arrives.

Fast read

Opportunity DNA

This opportunity needs a closer read before drawing a strong conclusion, especially around location rules could change the fit.

PayRange available

Current comparable position is around the 48th percentile.

FlexibilityLocation limits visible

Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.

Entry pathRequirements unclear

The listing does not make the minimum education or experience threshold clear enough yet.

MobilityNot established

Sponsorship and relocation support are not clear from the current listing.

ApplicationSome process detail

Part of the application route can be assessed, but the full external process may contain additional steps.

TraceabilityCurrent source traceable

At least one recent enabled source can still renew this vacancy.

This fingerprint summarizes what is clear, constrained or still unanswered in the current listing. It is a reading aid, not an overall job score.

Decision evidence check

4 of 5 core facts stated

This checks whether the listing states the facts that commonly change an employment decision. It measures disclosure completeness, not whether the opportunity is good or bad.

Facts already stated

  • Compensation
  • Work arrangement
  • Advertised location
  • Employment type

What to verify next

  • Application closing time: Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?

Advertised location is not proof of work authorization, sponsorship, or legal eligibility. Unknown information is not a negative score; verify those questions separately.

Decision levers

What could make or break the fit?

Reasons to look closer

Nothing stands out strongly enough yet to call a clear advantage. The role may still be attractive for reasons the listing does not spell out.

Trade-offs to weigh

  • Location rules could change the fit: Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.

Questions worth asking before you invest more time

  • Confirm whether a degree is actually required, preferred, or replaceable with equivalent experience.
  • Confirm the actual minimum experience requirement rather than assuming preferred background is mandatory.
  • Ask whether visa sponsorship is available before investing significant time in the application.

These questions come from details the listing leaves open. An unanswered point is not treated as a disadvantage.

Opportunity neighborhood

Keep your options open

These live roles sit close enough to this opportunity to make useful comparison points. Look across several employers before deciding what pay, flexibility or access trade-offs you are willing to accept.

Product Engineering

Polar · Europe, USA

Salary not disclosed Region-restricted remote 3/5 core facts

Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work arrangement

Senior Product Manager, Retention (5M to 50M users)

Jerry · Remote — Worldwide

USD 160,000–210,000 / year Worldwide remote 5/5 core facts

Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type

About 8% lower advertised midpoint

Senior Product Manager, App o11y | UK | Remote

Grafana Labs · UK

GBP 94,508–113,410 / year Region-restricted remote 4/5 core facts

Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type

Different angle: Different country

This neighborhood is drawn from current inventory in the same broad occupation. Similarity is based on explicit listing facts; missing details do not count against a job.

Role market context

How much current choice is visible around this kind of work?

This compares the vacancy with current High Paid Job inventory in the broad Product roles family. It describes visible choice and disclosure, not future demand or career quality.

Current visible roles1,524

200 most recent current roles sampled for the disclosure measures below.

Employers represented137

Distinct employers in the bounded current sample, not an estimate of all employers hiring in the market.

Decision-ready disclosure36%

Current sampled roles stating at least four of the five Core Decision Facts.

Compensation stated31%

Requires a numeric amount, explicit ISO currency and supported pay period.

Work arrangement stated100%

Listings with explicit enough remote, hybrid or on-site evidence to classify.

Stated closing time12%

Missing deadline evidence remains unknown and is not interpreted as an open-ended application window.

Disclosure comparison: This listing states more core decision facts than the median role in the current sample. This listing: 4/5 · sample median: 3.0/5.

Currencies with explicit pay evidence in the sample: USD (37) · EUR (12) · GBP (8) · CAD (3). Raw amounts across different currencies are not compared.

This describes current visible High Paid Job inventory in the same broad occupation family. Percentages use a bounded recent sample and are not a forecast, a complete labor-market census or an employer-quality measure.

Constraint opportunity lab

What changes the size of the current opportunity pool?

Each line applies one stricter evidence-based constraint to the same bounded current role-family sample. It helps you see the trade-off in visible choice without deciding which trade-off is right for you.

Require explicit sponsorship or relocation support 1 / 200 1%

Counts only affirmative or possible sponsorship evidence, or relocation explicitly offered. Unknown is not treated as no.

Require worldwide remote evidence 12 / 200 6%

A much stricter subset: only listings with explicit worldwide-remote evidence remain.

Require usable compensation disclosure 62 / 200 31%

Requires amount, explicit ISO currency and a supported pay period. Missing pay evidence remains unknown.

Require at least four Core Decision Facts 71 / 200 36%

Shows the subset with enough stated evidence for a more informed first comparison.

Require a remote-listed arrangement 73 / 200 37%

Counts roles explicitly classified as worldwide remote, region-restricted remote or remote with restrictions still unclear.

Stay in the same stated country 34 / 85 40%

Uses only roles where a country is known. Roles without country evidence are excluded from this denominator.

Keep this advertised salary floor in the same currency 17 / 37 46%

Only same-currency opportunities with usable annualized pay enter this comparison. Other currencies are not converted or treated as lower.

Stay around the same seniority band 161 / 200 81%

Includes roles whose seniority is genuinely unspecified rather than assuming they belong to another level.

These are counterfactual filters over a bounded sample of current HPJ inventory in the same broad occupation family. They show how visible choice changes when one evidence-based constraint is applied; they do not tell you which constraint you should choose or predict hiring outcomes. The calculation uses the 200 most recent current roles from 1524 visible roles in this broad family.

Salary transparency context

Is pay disclosure typical for this kind of role?

This listing states usable structured compensation. About 31% of the bounded current role sample does the same.

This listingUsable pay stated

Compensation counts only when amount, ISO currency and supported pay period are all known.

Current same-role sample31%

Pay disclosure is limited in the current role sample.

Current employer pattern78%

This employer’s current visible listings disclose pay materially more often than the current same-role sample.

This compares salary-disclosure behavior in current visible listings. It does not compare raw salary amounts across currencies, infer undisclosed pay as zero, or rate employer quality.

Private offer & negotiation lab

Turn an offer into evidence, not guesswork

Enter an annual base offer and, if you want, your own target. HPJ compares only within one explicit currency and never chooses a target for you.

Advertised annualized payUSD 200,267–200,267 / yearListing evidence only.
Current comparable medianUSD 222,50036 current sampled roles
Current upper quartileUSD 260,963Current HPJ inventory context, not a salary recommendation.

Negotiation evidence available: advertised pay range, current same-currency market context, strong decision evidence.

Enter an annual base offer to compare it with explicit same-currency evidence. HPJ will not suggest a target for you.

Review the full package · 10 terms

Mark what is confirmed, what needs clarification and what you want to prioritize. These choices and notes stay in this browser.

Base payKnown

Usable advertised compensation is available.

Bonus / commissionVerify

Variable compensation is mentioned; verify amount, formula, target and eligibility.

Equity / long-term incentivesMentioned

Equity or long-term incentive language is mentioned; verify grant type, vesting and valuation basis.

Retirement / pensionVerify

Retirement or pension benefits are mentioned; verify employer contribution and vesting.

Health benefitsVerify

Health-benefit language is mentioned; verify coverage, dependants and employee cost.

Paid leaveVerify

Paid-leave language is mentioned; verify the exact entitlement and carry-over rules.

Work arrangementKnown

A work-arrangement signal is available; verify schedule details before relying on it.

RelocationVerify

Relocation support not established

Visa / work authorizationVerify

Sponsorship not established

Review timingVerify

A review cycle is mentioned; verify timing and whether compensation can change at that review.

Questions worth taking into the offer conversation

  • Is there a bonus, commission or other variable-pay component, and how is it calculated?
  • What retirement or pension contribution does the employer provide?
  • What health coverage is included and what costs remain with the employee?
  • How much paid leave is provided and what are the carry-over or blackout rules?
  • If relocation is relevant, what expenses, timing and repayment conditions are covered?
  • What exact sponsorship or work-authorization conditions apply to this role?
  • When is the first performance and compensation review after joining?
  • Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?

Occupation intelligence

What broader career references connect to this role?

HPJ uses broad comparison families for current-market analysis. External taxonomy results are reference candidates for that broad family, not a declaration that this vacancy has been authoritatively classified into a specific occupation.

HPJ comparison familyProduct roles
Adjacent families worth exploringSoftware engineering roles · Design roles · Marketing roles

European occupation references

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.

U.S. occupation references

This site incorporates information from O*NET Web Services by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.

Career reference research

Skills worth investigating

Official occupational context, paired with exact phrases visible in this vacancy. It is not a skills test or an applicant-fit score.

ESCO · European occupation

product manager

Usually essential in this ESCO occupation
  • execute marketing plan
  • persuade clients with alternatives
  • prepare market research reports
  • market research
  • analyse economic trends
  • develop communications strategies
  • product life-cycle
Context-dependent ESCO skills
  • apply strategic thinking
  • production processes
  • integrate marketing strategies with the global strategy
  • analyse data about clients
  • manage budgets

O*NET · U.S. occupation

Marketing Managers

O*NET occupation skills
  • Active Listening
  • Speaking
  • Active Learning
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Critical Thinking
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Monitoring
  • Persuasion
Build my private skill preparation brief Your evidence · Practice · Interview questions

Plan how you might demonstrate or investigate occupational skills. These are broad-family reference examples, not confirmed vacancy requirements. Nothing you enter is sent to High Paid Job.

execute marketing planESCO · Essential · Listing mention unknown
persuade clients with alternativesESCO · Essential · Listing mention unknown
prepare market research reportsESCO · Essential · Listing mention unknown
market researchESCO · Essential · Listing mention unknown
analyse economic trendsESCO · Essential · Listing mention unknown
develop communications strategiesESCO · Essential · Listing mention unknown
product life-cycleESCO · Essential · Listing mention unknown
apply strategic thinkingESCO · Optional · Listing mention unknown
production processesESCO · Optional · Listing mention unknown
integrate marketing strategies with the global strategyESCO · Optional · Listing mention unknown
analyse data about clientsESCO · Optional · Listing mention unknown
manage budgetsESCO · Optional · Listing mention unknown
Active ListeningO*NET · Skills · Listing mention unknown
SpeakingO*NET · Skills · Listing mention unknown
Active LearningO*NET · Skills · Listing mention unknown
Complex Problem SolvingO*NET · Skills · Listing mention unknown
Critical ThinkingO*NET · Skills · Listing mention unknown
Judgment and Decision MakingO*NET · Skills · Listing mention unknown
MonitoringO*NET · Skills · Listing mention unknown
PersuasionO*NET · Skills · Listing mention unknown

Private to this browser. Up to 20 reference skills; not a qualification assessment or hiring prediction.

Useful next question: Which of these occupational reference skills does the hiring manager actually expect for this specific role, and what evidence would demonstrate them?

These skills belong to one reference occupation selected for HPJ’s broad career family, not a verified classification of this vacancy. Text overlap only means a phrase appears in the available listing text; it does not establish an employer requirement, your proficiency, or a qualification gap. A missing mention is unknown, not a deficit.

Adjacent current roles to investigate

Software engineering roles

Senior Backend Engineer

Hornetsecurity · Hanover

same seniority band · same employment type

Adjacent-family roles are exploration prompts from current HPJ inventory. They are not inferred qualification matches and they do not imply a promotion path.

Career move map

What sits one step away?

This listing is currently read as Senior / lead. Nearby roles one visible seniority step away can help you judge whether to widen the search, stretch upward or compare the responsibilities more carefully.

Stretch direction

These are live roles one visible seniority step away in the same broad occupation family. They can reveal nearby options, but they are not a guaranteed promotion path and do not account for your personal experience.

Skill bridge

What does this role connect to?

Large Language Models is one of the signals this listing shares with skills appearing often across current Product roles opportunities.

Skills named in this listing

Large Language ModelsProject Management

Shared with the current career sample

  • Large Language Models Seen in 13 sampled listings
  • Project Management Seen in 17 sampled listings

Application edge

  • If these skills match your background, prepare one concrete example that shows how you used Large Language Models and Project Management rather than relying on a keyword-only claim.
  • The listing mentions extra application steps. Review those requirements before starting so you can prepare the requested material in one pass.

If the named skills are genuinely transferable in your own experience, the occupation map also points to adjacent current families worth researching: Software engineering roles, Design roles, and Marketing roles. This is exploration context, not a qualification match.

Skill signals come from explicit text mentions. A mention is not automatically a requirement, and absence from the current top-skill list does not make a skill rare or unimportant. The current career comparison draws on 120 sampled listings; 80 contain a recognized skill signal.

Application Decision Lab

Turn the listing into a preparation plan

Separate what the listing actually states from what you still need to prepare or verify. Your selections and short notes stay in this browser and are never submitted to High Paid Job.

Listing mention

Large Language Models

This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.

Listing mention

Project Management

This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.

Application step

Prepare for a stated application step

A portfolio or work sample is explicitly mentioned.

Application step

Prepare for a stated application step

A background or pre-employment screening step is explicitly mentioned.

Questions worth resolving before you rely on the opportunity

  • Application closing time: Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?
  • Work authorization / sponsorship: If sponsorship or work authorization matters to you, what exact immigration or employer-sponsorship conditions apply to this role?

Decision analysis

What the listing really tells you

Useful decision context

A closer look at Senior Product Partnerships Manager (Remote within USA or Canada) at DuckDuckGo points most strongly to the advertised pay can be placed in context, the location rules are clear enough to judge, and the visible application effort can be estimated. Those signals shape the practical upside and the questions still worth asking.

The advertised pay can be placed in context

Among 67 current comparable salaries in USD, the normalized annual midpoint is around the 48th percentile. This compares advertised pay in the same currency and does not include every element of total compensation.

The location rules are clear enough to judge

The work-location pattern is “Remote with some uncertainty or restrictions”, with Remote Freedom at 62/100. The most important location constraint is geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region..

The visible application effort can be estimated

Provider-mediated application path · 2 visible process steps. The external application may contain additional steps that are not visible from the listing itself.

Source continuity adds useful context

1 recent enabled source can currently renew this vacancy across 1 source classes. That improves traceability, although it does not verify the employer itself.

How this analysis is assembled

This read combines the structured details currently available for pay, flexibility, qualifications, mobility, application effort and source continuity. Missing facts are left open for you to verify.

Analysis evidence coverage

How much analysis can the current evidence support?

100%Strong analysis evidence coverage
100%
Current-sample pay position48 / 100

Uses the explainable High Pay Score within the job’s current occupation/seniority/currency comparison sample.

Remote Freedom evidence62 / 100

Measures observable location flexibility and explicit restrictions; it does not determine whether remote work is personally desirable.

Salary evidence qualityHigh confidence · Single disclosed value

The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.

Listing freshnessAging listing

The listing was posted about 20 days ago. Verify that it is still accepting applications.

Source provenance evidenceEstablished source evidence

At least one enabled source recently observed the vacancy. The source chain is traceable, but this is not independent employer verification.

There is no universal opportunity score because pay, flexibility and access matter differently to different people. Compare Jobs lets you weight the evidence around your own priorities.

Decision checklist

What is supported, uncertain or worth checking?

This checklist separates supported strengths, visible cautions and missing evidence. It is not an overall recommendation or guarantee that the job is suitable for you.

Supported strengths

No standout strength is supported strongly enough to list here. That is not a negative rating.

Visible cautions

  • Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
  • The listing was posted about 20 days ago. Verify that it is still accepting applications.
  • This is remote work with a geographic restriction, not a worldwide-remote vacancy.

Still unknown

  • Visa sponsorship is not established by the available listing data.

Qualifications & access

What qualifications are explicitly stated?

Entry-barrier evidence limited

EducationEducation requirement not established
Required experience evidenceExperience requirement not established
Explicit required barriers0
Explicit access signals0

Qualification signals come from explicit listing wording. Anything not mentioned remains unknown, so silence is never treated as proof that a degree, experience, licence or other requirement is unnecessary.

Pay vs. barriers

Pay and barrier context available

The current pay position can be viewed alongside the stated barriers, but the available detail does not support a stronger conclusion.

Current-sample pay position

Comparable disclosed-pay evidence places this job at about 48 / 100 within its current occupation/seniority sample.

Location-freedom constraints

1 explicit Remote Freedom restriction signal is present and is shown separately from qualification requirements.

Evidence gaps that could change this interpretation
  • Education requirement is not established.
  • Required prior-experience level is not established.

This section weighs pay context against clearly stated barriers without collapsing unlike requirements into one universal score. Degree, experience, licensing, clearance and location limits remain separate, and missing qualification details stay unknown.

Beyond the headline

Not enough evidence for a hidden-value finding

Potential hidden value appears only when several distinct non-pay advantages are actually supported. Missing requirements or benefits are never counted as positives.

Still check: The current application path is provider-mediated rather than directly classified as an employer-authorized or official route.

Hidden Value is an experimental evidence summary, not an investment-style score or guarantee of employability. It only uses explicit current listing evidence and does not infer that an unmentioned qualification is unnecessary.

Compensation intelligence

How competitive is this pay?

48/100

Within the current market range

48%
Comparison familyProduct roles · Senior / lead
Comparable salaries67
Current-sample medianUSD 202,100
Middle 50% of sampleUSD 177,500–230,000
Position in sampleAt or above about 48%
Comparison geographySame country (US)
Pay positionAround the current median

The annualized midpoint is within about 2% of the current comparable median, so the difference is treated as effectively tied rather than meaningfully higher or lower.

Why this analysis?

  • This score reflects the current advertised-pay distribution for comparable active jobs in the same currency. It measures pay position, not overall job quality.
  • Salary confidence: High. The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.
  • Range quality: Single disclosed value.

Employer compensation communication

Pay transparency at DuckDuckGo

Good current pay transparency

This score uses the employer’s current visible listings and combines how often pay is disclosed with how useful those ranges are. Bonus, equity and benefit mentions are shown separately and do not raise the score.

80/100
80%
Salary disclosure78% · 7 of 9 sampled listings
Range qualityMostly focused or specific pay information
Bonus wording1 current listings
Equity wording8 current listings
Benefits wording8 current listings
Evidence strengthModerate

This pattern comes from the employer’s current visible vacancies. It describes hiring and pay transparency in those listings, not employee satisfaction or a permanent judgement of the employer.

Current employer intelligence

DuckDuckGo — current opportunity snapshot

Current opportunities visible9
Salary disclosure78%
Remote-policy evidence coverage100% · 9 of 9 sampled listings
Remote share of known arrangements100%
Worldwide-remote share33%
Known hiring countries2
Sponsorship evidence coverage0% · 0 of 9 sampled listings
Explicit sponsorship outcomes0 confirmed · 0 possible · 0 unavailable
Pattern sample9 of 9 · 100% coverage
Current role-family breadth7
Stated closing-date coverage11%
Relocation evidence coverage0% · 0 explicitly offered
Posted within 7 days33% of listings with a known posting date

Employer Evidence Profile

How often this employer’s current visible sampled vacancies state decision-critical information. These percentages describe evidence coverage, not employer quality.

Compensation78% of sampled current listings

Current sampled listings with advertised compensation evidence.

Work arrangement100% of sampled current listings

Current sampled listings whose work arrangement is clearer than unknown.

Location56% of sampled current listings

Current sampled listings with a supported country signal.

Application timing11% of sampled current listings

Current sampled listings with an explicit closing time.

Posting date100% of sampled current listings

Current sampled listings with a usable posting date.

Sponsorship0% of sampled current listings

Current sampled listings that explicitly indicate confirmed, possible or unavailable sponsorship evidence.

Relocation0% of sampled current listings

Current sampled listings with an explicit relocation signal.

Low coverage means the current visible listings state the information less often. It does not prove that the employer lacks the policy, benefit or support.

Common current occupation families: Marketing (2) · Software engineering (2) · Data & AI (1)

Visible seniority mix: Senior / lead (8) · Leadership (1)

Current employment-type mix: Full time (8)

Most visible hiring countries in this sample: United States (4) · Slovakia (1)

Other current roles from this employer

Senior Data Scientist

Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA

Senior / lead · Region-restricted remote

These are other current vacancies visible from the same employer, not endorsements or evidence of future hiring plans.

Current disclosed salary medians by currency

  • USD 178,500 median · 7 disclosed salaries

Questions worth asking this employer

  • If work authorization matters to you, what sponsorship policy applies to this specific role and location?
  • If a move is required, is relocation assistance available for this position?
  • What is the expected application and interview timeline if the listing does not state a closing date?

These questions are prompted by missing or thin evidence in the employer’s current visible vacancies. Missing evidence is not treated as a negative judgement.

This employer snapshot uses the employer’s current visible listings. Remote and sponsorship rates use only vacancies with explicit evidence, while missing information stays unknown. Salary medians are shown separately by currency and need at least five disclosed salaries. Zero confirmed sponsorship means none was explicitly found in this sample, not that sponsorship is unavailable.

This snapshot describes the employer’s current visible vacancies—things such as pay disclosure and work arrangement. It is not an employee-satisfaction or hiring-quality rating, and different currencies stay separate.

Work-location intelligence

Remote Freedom

62/100

Remote with some uncertainty or restrictions

62%

Why this score?

  • The role is remote but the source identifies a country or regional restriction.

Location restrictions detected

  • Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.

Remote Freedom measures observable location flexibility only. Unknown work-location information remains unscored. Timezone wording is penalized only when it appears restrictive; general collaboration across time zones is not treated as a restriction. A score does not guarantee legal work eligibility, payroll availability or visa sponsorship.

International applicant intelligence

Visa & relocation signals

Sponsorship status is shown only when the listing provides clear enough wording. Employer history or headquarters location is not used to guess an answer.

Visa sponsorshipSponsorship not established

The available listing details do not contain a clear enough sponsorship statement.

RelocationRelocation support not established

The available listing details do not contain a clear enough relocation statement.

Tradeoff check

What’s the catch?

These are visible conditions worth checking before treating the headline compensation as the whole story:

  • This is remote work with a geographic restriction, not a worldwide-remote vacancy.

Current alternatives

Better-paying alternatives

These current roles show a materially higher annualized salary midpoint in the same broad occupation and currency. Similar seniority, country, work arrangement, employment type and recency are preferred where possible; higher pay alone does not make an alternative a better fit.

About +54% midpoint

Principal Engineer, Product Engineering

1Password · Canada, USA

Region-restricted remote

Why comparable: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work-location arrangement

About +44% midpoint

Senior Product Manager - Platform

Tremendous · USA

Region-restricted remote

Why comparable: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work-location arrangement

Alternatives are drawn from the current inventory rather than presented as application recommendations. A pay difference needs to be meaningful—about 3% or more at the midpoint—and different currencies are not compared.

Application-path intelligence

What can we see about the application process?

Provider-mediated application path

The current application path comes through a publisher or aggregator. The destination may still lead to an employer-authorized hiring system, but that is not clear enough to assume.

Current destination: jobicy.com · HTTPS

Visible application steps or requirements

  • A portfolio or work sample is explicitly mentioned.
  • A background or pre-employment screening step is explicitly mentioned.

Application effort is estimated from visible listing and source details. Optional steps are kept separate from mandatory ones, and the external form may contain additional requirements that are not visible here.

Application safety context

Application safety check

Basic application-safety context available

The current application destination has a basic transport-safety signal such as HTTPS. This does not verify the employer, vacancy, recruiter or application process.

Evidence checked: Source provenance · Application destination · Listing wording

Observable transport-safety signals

  • The available application destination uses HTTPS.
Before you share money or sensitive information
  • Confirm the vacancy on the employer’s official careers site when practical, especially if a recruiter contacts you outside the listed application path.
  • Check that recruiter email domains and application destinations are consistent with the employer or an identifiable recruiting provider.
  • Do not pay application, processing, training or equipment fees merely to be considered for a job.
  • Do not send cryptocurrency, gift cards, online-banking credentials or PINs as part of an application.
  • Treat unusually fast offers or interviews conducted only through informal messaging channels as reasons to verify the employer independently.

This is a limited safety screen, not employer verification and not a fraud determination. Never send money, cryptocurrency, passwords or sensitive banking credentials merely because a listing appears on a job platform.

Original listing details

The section below comes from the listing source. The decision sections above use the job’s structured pay, location, qualification, mobility and application details to give you additional context.

Who We Are

Hi, we're DuckDuckGo, the online protection company and remote-first team of 400+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, our annual revenue is in the hundreds of millions USD and millions use our browser on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, our search engine, and the DuckDuckGo subscription. We also offer private, useful, and optional AI, including Duck.ai, which lets you chat privately with ChatGPT, Claude, and other AIs, all in one place.

Our culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management underpins everything we do, where each team member takes full ownership of their projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem. If you're seeking end-to-end ownership of your work, you've come to the right place!

Your Team and Role

As a Senior Product Partnerships Manager on the Partnerships team, you’ll lead DuckDuckGo’s most complex Product partnerships and drive strategy — sourcing, negotiating, and scaling high-impact deals with partners that can materially enhance our entire portfolio of products (search, Duck.ai, Privacy Pro subscriptions, etc) and work on related projects. Many of these partnerships will be the first-of-their-kind where you will have to create playbooks from 0-to-1 — you'll be structuring deals where the product, economics, and strategic value need to be figured out together, and you’ll be working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Finance to make them real.

You'll manage a portfolio of competing and complementary partner relationships, forging partnerships with leading organizations while, in the case of AI, navigating the strategic tradeoffs of a market where pricing, capabilities, and competitive dynamics shift quarterly. Your work will directly shape how our products evolve, including Duck.ai and Assist, and reach millions of users.

What Projects Might Look Like

  1. Figuring out further partnerships that could enhance our Duck.ai and Search Assist offerings

  2. Identifying opportunities for Partnerships to drive product enhancement and user engagement/retention.

  3. Creating new distribution channels to help grow our AI related services

About You

  • 8+ years of Strategic Partnerships experience.

  • Significant experience leading complex product partnerships end-to-end — from identifying the opportunity through deal close and beyond. These should be partnerships where you've created something new together and navigated real product and technical complexity, not sales deals or API licensing.

  • Self-sufficiency on the commercial details — you don’t wait for someone else to draft terms, build financial models, or pressure-test deal structures — you can handle these details on your own while partnering with Legal and Finance.

  • Experience with consumer internet or user-facing software business with an understanding of the AI/LLM ecosystem and how AI capabilities are being integrated into consumer products.

  • Experience managing a portfolio of complex strategic partner relationships and an understanding of the tradeoffs that come with balancing competing and complementary providers.

  • 2+ years of cross-functional leadership on partnership projects and teams, including legal and engineering.

  • You build trust quickly with internal teams, partners, and stakeholders you've never worked with before. You're collaborative by default and decisive when it counts.

  • Located in US or Canada.

Compensation

This role is paid on a regional pay scale, in local currency:

  • United States: $214,767 USD annually

  • Canada: C$284,417 CAD annually

Compensation also includes stock options. Compensation is transparent across the organization, and all team members within the same professional level and region receive the same compensation.

Eligibility for company-sponsored health benefits is limited to team members based in the United States. This program does not extend to team members located in other countries, such as Canada or the UK.

Our Team Member Support Guide explains how we prioritize your wellbeing including paid parental leave, office setup, and co-working allowances.

Hiring Process

Hiring works best when it's a two-way street. Learn how we help you get to know DuckDuckGo, envision your future role here, and find out more about how we hire.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

DuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.

We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an email to careers@duckduckgo.com to let us know the nature of your request.

Please note that:

  • You’ll be required to attend meetings on camera via video conferencing

  • Expect to travel at least two times a year: once for our all-hands meetup and again for a team retreat (each around 4-5 days). While extenuating circumstances may impact attendance, everyone is strongly encouraged to attend.

  • While we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.

  • A successful candidate must pass a background check as a condition of joining the team.

  • By applying for this role, you confirm that all information submitted is accurate and complete. You further acknowledge that providing false or fraudulent information during the application process is cause for denial of an offer, revocation of any existing offer, or other adverse action, up to and including termination after the start of your commencement of work.

Disclosure Statement: Use of AI in Hiring Process

As part of our commitment to enhancing our recruitment process, we utilize artificial intelligence (AI) technology to assist in reviewing and summarizing job applications and test projects, including those tools integrated into our recruitment vendor platforms. We use AI to flag potentially fraudulent applications, analyze and summarize applicants’ experience, interviews, and project performance, and help streamline our selection process.

Key Principles:

  • Data Privacy: All information provided in your application will be handled in accordance with our Recruiting Privacy Policy. We ensure that your personal information is protected and used solely for recruitment purposes.

  • Human Oversight and Accountability: The AI technology is designed to support our hiring team by providing insights and summaries of applications and evaluations of test projects against scoring rubrics. All final evaluations and hiring decisions, however, will be made by our hiring team, who will consider the AI's input alongside other factors.

  • Transparency: We believe in transparency regarding our hiring practices. If you have any questions about how AI is used in our recruitment process, please feel free to reach out to us.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge and consent to the use of AI technology in our review process. If you would like to request an alternative selection process, please contact us at careers@duckduckgo.com. Thank you for your interest in joining DuckDuckGo!

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