Staff Designer, Shopify
Web Experiences
Cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform for SMEs
Job no longer available
Cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform for SMEs
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Shopify's mission is to make commerce better for everyone, so businesses can focus on what they do best: building and selling their products.
Role
Who you are
- Passion for solving product problems while balancing all facets of a user experience (strategy and research, information architecture, interaction design) and collaborating closely with multiple disciplines including product, engineering, content, and research
- Expert knowledge of the end to end iterative product design process including how to develop and use design research, job stories, journey mapping, content modeling, wire-framing, prototyping, user testing, and high-fidelity visuals to achieve human-centered design solutions
- A deep empathy for the user, and tools to help others develop this empathy as well
- Proven work experience in visual design and data visualization
- Strong understanding of modern web tech (animations, interaction, etc)
- Proficiency with current industry design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Sketch, Github, etc.
- Proficiency in interaction design for native mobile and web applications
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills; you have the ability to help your team and stakeholders understand the “why” behind your design rational
What the job involves
- This role is part of a new team responsible for the Shopify Entrepreneurship Index — the world’s first home for data and insights on global entrepreneurship across 40 countries and all U.S. states
- This person will be responsible for the evolving design of the Index product, and its future direction
- Working closely with a small group of engineers, product managers, as well as our legal and policy teams, you will continue shaping the Shopify Entrepreneurship Index into a powerful storytelling and data exploration experience
- In this role, you will work collaboratively and build iteratively with a multidisciplinary team of developers, product managers, content designers, user researchers, and marketers
- You’ll deliver world class experiences that make potentially confusing business tasks intuitive and manageable, and empower entrepreneurs world-wide to achieve independence
- Passion for solving product problems while balancing all facets of a user experience (strategy and research, information architecture, interaction design)
- Understanding of the end-to-end iterative design process including how to develop and use design research, job stories, journey mapping, content modeling, wire-framing, prototyping, user testing, and high-fidelity visuals to achieve human-centered design solutions
- Collaborating closely with multiple disciplines including product and engineering
Application process
- Please provide a portfolio demonstrating your ability to design and deliver modern, expressive, interactive and polished product/web and data visualization design work
Our take
Prior to Shopify, eCommerce solutions for online businesses were a pretty ramshackle affair, either picked from a poor selection of expensive off-the-shelf products or developed in-house. Shopify was born from its founder's frustration in setting up a store to sell snowboards online. Since then it has grown into the world's biggest eCommerce platform, with over 1 million active merchants using the platform to sell almost anything imaginable over the internet.
Today Shopify has a commanding lead among eCommerce platforms, though it may be threatened by the rapid growth of its rival WooCommerce, which is popular in online stores built using WordPress. However Shopify has made moves to stay ahead of the competition, developing new products such as Shopify Collabs which makes it easier for influencers to collaborate with brands, and offering financing services to eligible merchants to support their business growth.
Shopify has enjoyed strong growth in the years since its IPO, achieving more than 26% revenue growth compared to 2022 in 2023 alone, driven by the continuing shift to online shopping and the improved capabilities of the platform. It will be looking to build on this growth by continuing to develop its range of products and making further strategic acquisitions to support its platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2013
$100m
SERIES C
Oct 2011
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $122.3m
Company benefits
- Great parental leave policies, including a $1000 baby bonus
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Downtown, Ottawa, ON
Leadership
Tobias Lütke
(CEO)Launched an online snowboard shop before shifting to e-commerce and building Shopify
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