Careers - Shopify Designer

Purpose

You use design to meet the business objectives of our clients, making ecommerce web more beautiful and usable, and building our reputation as a design leader.

About you

  • You have a well-thought perspective on design, while also maintaining a curious flexibility and willingness to consider other perspectives. You apply the one that works best in the case at hand.
  • You're not an ego-driven designer, designing for design's sake. Rather, you see design as a means to solving problems and achieving goals.
  • You're an avid fan of data-driven, user-centric design and you enjoy using analytics and other information to inform your design decisions.
  • You understand that on the web, anyone involved in creating a product is, on some level, a designer. You always consider how clients and their customers will interact with the experiences we build.


Qualities

  • Creative
  • Curious
  • Empathetic
  • Decisive (but not dogmatic)
  • Communicative


Career Track

Shopify Designer > Senior Shopify Designer > Creative Director > VP, Design

 

Day to Day

Common tasks

  • Participate in project planning and discovery, estimation.
  • Create mobile-first design prototypes using best-practices for usability, accessibility.
  • Collaborate with Sales, Strategy, and Development teams to conceptualize design solutions to user experience problems.
  • Collaborate with the Development team to guide interactivity in the final product.
  • Deliver assets to the Development team.
  • Create screen-share/videos to document process, decision-making, or direction for others.
  • Extend and refine the templates and components in our design library.
  • Follow, extend, and refine internal Standard Operating Procedures.
  • Scale our methodology by documenting key processes and tools.
  • Create display and social ads, email assets, and templates for both clients and internal.
  • Champion the Monumental brand by being active in the Shopify design community.
  • Create content and collaborate with leadership on design efforts in order to empower sales.


Required knowledge

  • Have a basic understanding of how websites get built, how design can and generally cannot be used online, information architecture, accessibility and usability.
  • Understand and have a history of putting ecommerce UX/UI design principles into practice.
  • Have designed for, and used Shopify themes.
  • Have used Figma and know how to use styles, assets, components, and variants to speed the design process.
  • Experience working on a fully-distributed team.


Tools you'll use

  • Apple computer hardware
  • Figma
  • ClickUp
  • Zoom
  • Shopify Admin
  • Google Workspace (Email, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides)
  • Dropbox
  • Loom
  • Slack

 

    Compensation

    Hourly/contract: $60-$85
    Estimated annual salary range of $65,000-$85,000
    Compensation is based on location, skills, and experience, not a cap