Senior UX Designer (Contract)
Overview
About Driver Digital:
The design-led, human-centered creative commerce agency.
Driver Digital is a New York City based Shopify partner agency. We work with founder-led brands in fashion and apparel, beauty, fine jewelry and lifestyle, that believe design is a strategic advantage.
We bring digital harmony across brand, user experience, and engineering - creating connected, converting and performant online experiences.
Our clients prioritize elevated digital design, cohesive brand expression, and long-term relationships. They value quality, consistency, and senior-led teams that can navigate complexity with confidence.
About The Role
Driver Digital is seeking a Senior User Experience Designer, capable of owning the design process —from client brief and data ingestion through to high-fidelity visual design. You will partner with leadership to define and operationalize a consistent, repeatable methodology that turns a client's goals into elegant, high-converting Shopify experiences.
You'll build and run the design process itself on assigned projects; the activities, exercises, and checkpoints that move a project from discovery to polished UI. You'll translate briefs and data into a clear plan, then execute it—wireframing, prototyping in Figma, and partnering with The Head of Design in delivering high-fidelity Figma files.
You'll conduct research and design and run tests to make data-informed decisions about how our clients' sites are structured and optimized to lift conversion—spanning the full architecture, from navigation and taxonomy at the top down to the details that matter most on the PDP: content strategy and call-to-action hierarchy.
And you'll partner across design, strategy, engineering, and account teams to ensure design intent is understood, feasible, and shipped with fidelity.
Qualities & Expectations
Communication. Exceptional, clear, consistent communication across every channel—verbal, email, Slack, and PM tools—with reliable follow-ups and status reports.
Accountability. Take full ownership of your work: your successes and your opportunities for improvement alike.
Reliability. Meet deadlines, and give advance notice when additional time or support is needed.
Urgency. Move with a strong, purposeful sense of pace.
Balance. An artful balance of thoroughness and detail with efficiency and agility.
Craft & sensibility. A rigorous, data-based approach to design decisions, paired with a sophisticated visual sensibility.
Spirit. Kind, collaborative, and energetic.
For Consideration: Please send introduction and portfolio directly to David Yassky at david@driver-digital.com
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end design process—from discovery and information architecture through wireframing, prototyping, and high-fidelity UI.
- Develop user-centric commerce experiences for D2C brands in fashion, beauty, fine jewelry, and lifestyle.
- Conduct UX/UI audits and translate findings into actionable, prioritized design improvements.
- Conduct research, and design and manage appropriate testing strategies, to produce the data needed to inform design and UX decisions and site conversion and performance targets.
- Architect site structure—navigation, taxonomy, collection and product templates—to lift conversion and clarity.
- Elevate key pages and e-commerce experiences through deliberate content strategy and call-to-action hierarchy.
- Create and evolve design systems that hold consistency and craft across projects.
- Partner across strategy, engineering, and account teams to ensure design intent is feasible and shipped with fidelity.
- Communicate design rationale clearly and persuasively in client meetings and presentations.
- Contribute to Driver's evolving design methodology—refining the process for the whole team, not just the project at hand.
Experience Required
- Figma—expert-level, with wireframing, prototyping, and design-system management as core strengths.
- Shopify—strong working knowledge of its capabilities, flexibility, and admin management.
- Shopify admin—hands-on experience with updates and content management within live client projects.
- E-commerce Experience designing for Direct-to-Consumer brands in an e-commerce capacity, ideally within fashion, beauty, jewelry, or home.
- A discipline for clean, structured, well-documented files that enable seamless developer handoff.
Benefits
- This is a contract position with the ability to work remotely and in a flexible full time capacity.
Compensation
Commensurate with experience.
To Apply
Please send your resume and a bit about yourself to careers@driver-digital.com and we'll be in touch!