Senior E-Commerce Product Designer, NYT Wirecutter (Temp)

Role overview

Lead the design evolution of an online shopping experience, shaping the store’s visual system and structure across its homepage, product pages, and checkout. The role combines e-commerce craft with conversion and usability work, using customer journey analysis and experiments to find and address friction.

Responsibilities - Turn business needs into polished designs, wireframes, and prototypes for desktop and mobile. - Review the shopping funnel and design improvements to navigation, product discovery, and checkout. - Audit the store experience and recommend opportunities in site architecture and e-commerce design. - Partner with business colleagues on an A/B testing roadmap, creating interface variations and iterating based on results. - Build, configure, and manage pages in Shopify, accounting for platform capabilities and constraints. - Work with technical partners to maintain visual quality through implementation.

Requirements - At least four years of relevant design experience. - Portfolio demonstrating e-commerce design process, information architecture, interaction design, and visual hierarchy. - Experience designing for Shopify, including theme editor use, product assets, and collaboration with developers. - Experience creating e-commerce email templates, such as for Klaviyo or Shopify Email. - Ability to use analytics to understand performance and guide design priorities. - Strong communication skills to explain design decisions and move work forward with developers, product managers, and stakeholders.

Nice to have - Experience applying design to improve conversion and usability.

Benefits and work setup - Temporary, remote-friendly role. Listed US hourly base pay is USD 88–92. Depending on location and eligibility, benefits may include health coverage, retirement and stock purchase plans, paid leave, tuition support, and professional development.