Staff Product Designer (Remote, Americas)

About Shopify

Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 10,000 employees and generated over $500 billion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries. Every 28 seconds, an entrepreneur on Shopify makes their first sale.

This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.

About you

Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.

Before you apply, consider if you can:

• Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
• Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
• Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
• Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
• Bring critical thought and opinion — and embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
• Work digital-first for your daily work

About the role

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. Shopify powers millions of businesses globally, providing the data and network needed to build something that did not previously exist: a comprehensive dataset on entrepreneurship around the world. 

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. 

This is an opportunity to solve challenging problems that impact real people as they grow and maintain their businesses. 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.

Responsibilities  

• 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

What you need to apply / Qualifications

• 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
• Please provide a portfolio demonstrating your ability to design and deliver modern, expressive, interactive and polished product/web and data visualization design work. 

Closing date: Wednesday, July 12th 11:59PM EDT