Senior Designer

Shopwell; Canada; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Remote-first culture

Winter holidays office closure

Job summary

Shopwell Design is seeking a Senior Designer to lead hands-on UI/UX and brand work for ecommerce and DTC projects, with deep Shopify experience. You will own design decisions, present to clients, and mentor teammates while collaborating with PMs and developers in a remote Canada-wide studio.

As a senior contributor, you’ll shape visual systems, craft distinctive brand identities, and push bold concepts beyond templates, delivering dev-ready designs from wireframes to Shopify-ready themes.

Qualifications

• 4–6+ years of design experience across ecommerce/DTC and branding or non-ecommerce work.
• Extremely strong, confident UI/UX skills with bold instincts.
• Real branding and identity design experience from the ground up.
• Portfolio shows bold, creative point of view beyond templated aesthetics.
• Comfortable designing custom Shopify experiences and customizing existing Shopify themes (liquid/theme structure a plus).
• Strong command of Figma and modern design tools.
• Fluency in translating stakeholder goals into exceptional design experiences.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to defend design decisions to clients.

Responsibilities

• Own the design process on projects from stakeholder requirements through wireframes, prototypes, and final dev-ready designs.
• Design and art-direct branding, identity work, and visual systems for ecommerce and digital products.
• Create confident UI/UX for ecommerce, plus non-ecommerce digital and print design.
• Push boundaries with bold, unconventional design solutions to make projects stand out.
• Present work to clients, lead design discussions, and defend decisions.
• Mentor junior designers and incorporate feedback from the team.
• Stay current on design trends across web, mobile, and iOS.
• Collaborate with Project Managers and Development team to translate ideas into lifelike implementations.

Skills

Branding & identity

UI/UX design

Shopify & Liquid

Figma

Client presentations

Tools

Shopify Theme customization

Shopify Liquid

Job description

Shopwell Design | Remote (Canada) | Full-Time

About Us

Shopwell Design is a boutique digital experience design studio working closely with direct-to-consumer and e-commerce businesses of varying sizes. We work with some of the most exciting and ambitious retail brands, taking projects from brand strategy through to a beautiful, functional shopping experience. Our team operates fully remote across Canada, and we care as much about how we work together as what we ship.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Designer who designs with extremely strong and confident instincts, and a genuine love of ecommerce, UI/UX and brand work. You should be just as comfortable building out a distinctive brand identity as you are architecting a high-converting Shopify experience - and you bring the same creative ambition to both. We want someone who pushes past template thinking and conventional aesthetics, who has strong opinions about what makes a design work, and who isn't afraid to defend a bold idea in front of a client.

This is a senior individual-contributor role for someone who loves being hands-on in Figma (and comfortable getting hands-on in Shopify itself), but is equally at home chatting with clients and stakeholders, translating goals and research into design decisions that hold up under scrutiny - and that don't look like everyone else's.

You will join a Design team, work with talented Project Managers, and collaborate with an expert Development team to bring your ideas to life.

Responsibilities

• Own the design process on your projects - from understanding stakeholder requirements and project concepts through wireframes, prototypes, and final, dev-ready designs
• Design and art-direct branding and identity work - logos, visual systems, typography, and brand guidelines - alongside ecommerce and digital product design
• Create confident, opinionated UI/UX for ecommerce experiences, as well as non-ecommerce digital and print design (campaigns, decks, social, marketing collateral)
• Push boundaries - bring bold, unconventional design solutions rather than defaulting to safe or expected patterns; help the studio's work stand out
• Design and build custom Shopify experiences, and confidently customize and extend existing Shopify themes to match a brand's vision
• Present your work directly to clients, lead design discussions, and confidently explain and defend your decisions
• Respectfully challenge the status quo - push clients and colleagues to consider better, more creative solutions when it matters
• Partner with the Creative Director and project leads to help define project requirements and scope
• Pressure-test your own work for edge cases and hand off clean, well-documented files that minimize unknowns for developers
• Give feedback to and mentor junior and intermediate designers on the team, and incorporate feedback from others into your own work
• Stay current on desktop and mobile design trends, tools, and best practices across web, mobile, and iOS
• Help promote an inspiring, inclusive, and collaborative team culture

Required Experience

• 4-6+ years of design experience, with strong, demonstrable range across ecommerce/DTC and branding or non-ecommerce work
• Extremely strong, confident UI/UX skills - a portfolio that shows sharp instincts, not just clean execution
• Real branding and identity design experience - you can build a visual language from the ground up, not just apply one
• A portfolio that reflects bold, creative point of view - work that doesn't conform to conventional or templated aesthetics0
• Comfortable designing custom Shopify experiences and confidently customizing existing Shopify themes (liquid/theme structure familiarity a plus)
• Strong command of Figma and modern design tools
• Fluency in translating stakeholder goals, user research, and requirements into an exceptional, distinctive design experience
• Comfortable presenting and defending bold design decisions directly to clients and stakeholders
• Strong attention to detail - you catch the edge cases and inconsistencies before development does
• Excellent command of visual fundamentals: typography, layout, color, and grid systems

Nice-to-Have

• Comfort with ambiguity - client briefs that raise more questions than answers, and a willingness to try things out
• Experience mentoring or reviewing the work of junior designers
• An entrepreneurial, scrappy mindset - many of our clients are startups
• Basic knowledge of animation, video editing, or online marketing
• Compensation discussed on interview
• Flexible PTO
• Office closed over the winter holidays
• Remote-first culture - open to applicants across Canada

Shopwell Design is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates.