Ecommerce UI / UX Designer
We the Makers · Pasadena, CA · 2 days ago
DesignContract
About the role
We are looking for an E-commerce UI/UX Designer to help brands create visually compelling, intuitive, and high performing digital commerce experiences.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end brand design project and work directly with clients to understand their brand, business model, target customers, pain points, and E-commerce goals.
- Translate client conversations, shopper insights, business needs, and merchant data into clear design recommendations and actionable next steps.
- Create E-commerce experiences across key pages and touch-points and campaign moments.
- Create clean, modern, and conversion focused designs that support brand storytelling, product discovery, shopper trust, merchandising, and business performance.
- Design and build prototypes using Figma, Figma Make, Claude, or other AI assisted prototyping tools to explore, communicate, and validate design ideas.
- Create visual designs and brand assets for E-commerce experiences.
- Use user insights, merchant feedback, and business data to identify opportunities and inform design decisions.
- Present design concepts and recommendations with clear storytelling, strong rationale, and practical guidance.
- Work closely with solution teams, developers, engineers, and implementation partners to make sure designs are feasible and accurately executed.
- Prepare clear design files, responsive layouts, annotations, component guidance, interaction notes, and hand-off documentation.
- Own the end to end quality of the design experience, from discovery and concept development to design delivery, hand-off, implementation review, and final QA.
- Review implemented designs and provide feedback to ensure the final experience matches the intended design quality.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in UI/UX design, E-commerce design, web design, digital product design, or brand experience design.
- Strong portfolio showing E-commerce design, responsive web experiences, visual craft, UX thinking, and business impact.
- Strong understanding of E-commerce platforms, shopper journeys, page structures, themes, templates, app integrations, and implementation workflows.
- Strong understanding of shopper behavior, product discovery, trust building, merchandising, conversion, retention, and customer lifetime value.
- Ability to understand merchant data, user feedback, and business context, then translate them into practical design decisions.
- Strong visual and branding skills, with the ability to create polished E-commerce pages, marketing assets, content modules, and brand storytelling moments.
- Strong business understanding, with the ability to connect design decisions to brand goals, revenue opportunities, customer experience, and client priorities.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to explain design rationale, present recommendations, and influence clients and internal stakeholders.
- Able to collaborate closely with technical teams and prepare clear, implementation ready design files, annotations, and specifications.
- Able to work in a fast paced environment, learn quickly, stay flexible, receive feedback with low ego, and maintain a high bar for quality and detail.
- Collaborative and direct communicator. Share work early, give and receive feedback well, and know how to align cross functional stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in an agency, E-commerce consultancy, SaaS company, or E-commerce platform ecosystem.
- Background in UX, HCI, psychology, consumer behavior, marketing, visual communication, branding, or a related field.
- Experience with E-commerce growth areas such as subscriptions, loyalty, bundles, reviews, merchandising, landing pages, personalization, or retention.
- Experience using AI tools to support design exploration, prototyping, UX audits, research synthesis, content generation, or workflow efficiency.