Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ecommerce Guide is seeking a UX/Design Contractor to continuously improve the shopping experience across three Shopify furniture storefronts. The role focuses on competitive ecommerce research, original responsive design, prototyping in Figma, design-system maintenance, developer collaboration, and prioritization of experience improvements.
Responsibilities
- Continuously research competitor and best-in-class ecommerce sites (furniture, home goods, and leading DTC brands generally) to identify strong patterns in layout, navigation, merchandising, and conversion flow
- Adapt (not copy) the best of what you find into original designs that fit our brand guidelines for each of our three stores
- Design and iterate on key templates: home page, header/navigation, footer, collection/category pages, product detail page, cart, and checkout
- Produce clickable, presentation-ready mockups in Figma (or a comparable tool) for review — desktop and mobile
- Maintain a lightweight design system/component library per brand so improvements stay consistent as pages evolve
- Present design rationale — what you changed, what you were inspired by, and why it should improve the experience or conversion
- Collaborate with our development team on handoff; be available to clarify designs during implementation on Shopify (Online Store 2.0 / Liquid theme sections)
- Track a running backlog of experience improvements and prioritize with us based on impact and effort
Skills
- 3–5 years of experience in UX/UI or product design, with a portfolio that includes ecommerce work
- Strong command of Figma (component libraries, auto-layout, prototyping); comfortable presenting and walking through design decisions
- A sharp eye for competitive research — you can look at 10 sites and articulate what's actually working and why, not just what looks nice
- Working understanding of responsive/mobile design and basic web/UX conventions (page speed and usability tradeoffs, accessibility basics)
- Ability to work within existing brand guidelines rather than starting from a blank slate each time
- Self-directed — comfortable owning a backlog of experience improvements and proposing what to tackle next, not just waiting for tickets
- Clear written and verbal English communication for async collaboration
- Prior experience designing for Shopify stores specifically (theme sections, Online Store 2.0 constraints, apps like reviews/upsell/loyalty widgets)
- Experience in furniture, home goods, or another considered-purchase/high-AOV ecommerce category
- Basic familiarity with HTML/CSS — enough to understand what's feasible to build in a Shopify theme
- Experience with CRO (conversion rate optimization) or A/B testing tools
Benefits
- Remote only
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