Senior Digital Designer

Commerce-UI (https://commerce-ui.com/)

Team size: 26

Remote | Full-time

We're looking for a senior designer who can lead the design phase of our eCommerce projects from first concept presentations to launch. If you're keen to work for the world's best eCommerce brands, in an environment that combines high aesthetics, precise UX design and close collaboration with developers, this might be an excellent opportunity for you.

About Commerce-UI

Over the last 7 years, we've been a technology partner for top league brands (like Lady Gaga, Carhartt WIP, Pangaia, Magda Butrym or Rolex) We strive for the best possible quality by combining an eye for design and user experience with the most up-to-date technologies.

Our goal is simple: to be one of the best eCommerce tech teams in the world.

We strongly believe that in order to create state-of-the-art experiences, you need a combination of the best design and the best technology.

Our work

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Achievements

• Winning Webby Awards 2025 (Music & Entertainement) for LadyGaga
• Winning Best Custom Shopify Build 2024
• Winning Best Custom Shopify Build 2026
• Multiple Honorable Mentions in Awwwards

What you'll do

• Lead design on one or two client projects at a time, from discovery, concept, UX/UI design, collaboration with developers in the build phase, all the way to launch.
• Run client presentations and workshops yourself. Explain and defend your decisions and help clients understand the trade-offs.
• Decide how to balance brand expression with usability and conversion and give clear reasons for those decisions.
• Create and evolve design systems: variables, components, patterns and documentation.
• Prepare specifications for developers, review the build, and sign off the design before launch.
• Scope and estimate your design work with the project manager and report risks to timeline or scope early.
• Contribute to internal initiatives and case studies.

What you need

• 5+ years in digital design, including 3+ years on eCommerce projects that you led and shipped.
• A portfolio of live eCommerce work in which your individual contribution is clear.
• Rich experience presenting directly to clients and handling feedback from senior stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of AI tools, recognizing their impact on our field and how they can be used to improve your work.
• Strong design system skills: component architecture, variables and tokens in Figma.
• Working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2 AA) and how to meet them within a strong visual brand.
• Strong brand sensitivity: you can work within an existing visual identity and extend it.
• Experience working with developers: you understand and design for responsive behaviour, component states and what is realistic to build.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Strong plus

• Shopify experience (Online Store 2.0 themes, Hydrogen or Shopify Plus)
• Experience in fashion, beauty, hard-tech, lifestyle or sports-tech
• Motion design
• Brand identity design

How you work

• You care deeply about the work you deliver and strive for the best possible result.
• You’re a team player, but fully able to lead your own work independently. You need a clear goal and the relevant context, not step-by-step instructions.
• When information is missing, you find it or ask for it.
• You deliver what you committed to, on time. If a deadline is at risk, you say so early. Transparency is central to how we work.
• You check your own work before a lead or a client sees it.
• You adapt quickly to our established project and design workflows.
• You can explain every design decision in terms of the user, the brand or the business.

How we work

People at Commerce-UI own their work and trust each other's judgment. We have no layers of management and no fixed playbooks. Each project has a small senior team: a designer, developers and a project manager.

Design runs in one-week sprints aligned with development. Designers and developers stay in contact for the whole project, so design decisions are always made with knowledge of what they cost to build.

You'll have real autonomy from day one. However, our Design Lead reviews your work and provides support when needed.

Team

Most of the time, you’ll collaborate closely with

• Marco (Design Lead)
• Simon (co-founder, COO)
• Michael (co-founder, CTO)
• Robert (Head of PM)

All of us love what we do and care about building state-of-the-art eCommerce stores. If you like such attitude, we're definitely the right people to work with!

How our hiring process looks like?

• Application We care more about what you’ve done and the results you’ve achieved than a polished CV. Send us a short message/video describing your experience, impact, and why you think you’d be a good fit for Commerce-UI, along with your CV and any relevant links or portfolio.
• Discovery call this is short (35 minutes) mutual check-in - we want to understand your expectations and share ours.
• Homework design exercise for selected candidates who are seriously considered for the position.
• Presentation (60 min) call with our lead designer to discuss the homework and have a chance to talk about your experience
• Offer if it’s a match, we’ll schedule a short call (20-30 minutes) to go over the details and next steps. If we don’t move forward we’ll do our best to give you thoughtful feedback