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