Founding Ecommerce & Brand Designer (Shopify + Packaging)

About React Skin

React Skin is an early-stage skincare brand being built in Orange County, California.

We’re building a modern skincare company with a strong point of view around product, design, content, and customer experience. We care deeply about creating a brand that feels premium, distinctive, culturally relevant, and exceptionally well executed across every customer touchpoint.

We’re looking for a Founding Ecommerce & Brand Designer who can help shape what React Skin becomes.

This is not a traditional graphic design role and it is not a pure Shopify developer role.

We want someone who can think across brand, packaging, ecommerce, Shopify, design, and conversion — and then actually execute.

You should be the type of person who can look at a Shopify store, immediately identify what feels generic or underdeveloped, redesign it in Figma, jump into Shopify and implement the changes yourself.

One day you may be designing product packaging. The next you may be rebuilding a product page, creating a landing page, improving the mobile experience, developing campaign creative, or adjusting CSS/Liquid to get something exactly right.

You’ll work directly with the founder and have significant influence over the visual and ecommerce direction of the brand.

What You'll Own

Shopify & Ecommerce

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Help turn our Shopify store into a best-in-class ecommerce experience

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Design and build high-converting homepages, product pages, landing pages, collection pages, and campaign experiences

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Continuously improve the mobile shopping experience

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Create reusable Shopify sections and components

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Customize themes beyond what the Shopify editor provides

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Make light HTML, CSS, Liquid, and JavaScript changes when needed

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Evaluate and implement Shopify apps without unnecessarily bloating the store

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Improve site speed, usability, navigation, merchandising, and conversion

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Help build bundles, upsells, cross-sells, subscriptions, promotional experiences, and other AOV/CRO initiatives

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Use customer behavior and performance data to continually improve the storefront

Brand & Creative

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Help evolve the overall React Skin visual identity

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Maintain consistency across typography, color, imagery, layout, and creative direction

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Create campaign concepts and digital assets

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Design paid social and organic creative when needed

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Help establish a recognizable visual language for the brand

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Research leading skincare, beauty, fashion, and DTC brands and bring relevant ideas into React Skin without copying competitors

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Translate rough founder ideas and references into polished creative

Packaging

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Design and evolve product packaging, bottles, labels, cartons, inserts, and other physical brand touchpoints

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Work from printer and manufacturer dielines

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Prepare production-ready packaging files

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Understand print considerations such as bleeds, finishes, materials, Pantone/CMYK colors, typography, and label requirements

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Work with manufacturers and vendors to turn concepts into physical products

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Review samples and make recommendations on materials, finishes, sizing, and visual presentation

Conversion & Customer Experience

We don't just want things to look beautiful.

You should understand that design exists to help customers understand the product, trust the brand, and ultimately buy.

You'll think about:

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Conversion rate

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Product page structure

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Social proof

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Product education

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Before/after and benefit communication

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Offers and promotions

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Bundles

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Average order value

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Upsells and cross-sells

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Mobile usability

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Checkout friction

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Landing page performance

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Customer trust

You don't need to be a dedicated CRO analyst, but you should understand modern DTC ecommerce fundamentals.

Who We're Looking For

You may be a great fit if:

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You have approximately 3–7+ years of relevant ecommerce, brand, web, or DTC design experience

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You have a strong portfolio that demonstrates exceptional visual taste

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You've designed real ecommerce experiences, ideally for consumer brands

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You're highly comfortable with Shopify

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You're strong in Figma

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You understand responsive web and mobile-first design

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You're comfortable making light HTML/CSS/Liquid changes yourself

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You understand branding beyond simply creating logos

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You have experience with packaging or physical product design

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You understand how design affects ecommerce conversion

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You notice the tiny details that make a brand feel premium

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You're comfortable working in an early-stage environment where priorities can move quickly

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You're resourceful and able to figure things out without needing detailed instructions

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You enjoy taking something from idea → design → implementation

Bonus Points

Experience with any of the following is helpful but not required:

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Beauty, skincare, wellness, fashion, or premium consumer brands

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Klaviyo

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Shopify subscriptions

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Replo or similar Shopify landing page tools

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Adobe Illustrator / Photoshop

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Product photography or creative direction

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Packaging production

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Print vendors and manufacturers

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Meta/TikTok advertising creative

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A/B testing and CRO tools

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Basic JavaScript

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Shopify theme development

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Analytics tools such as GA4 or Shopify Analytics

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TikTok Shop

What We Don't Want

We're probably not the right fit if you:

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Only want to create Figma designs and hand them to a developer

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Need detailed instructions for every task

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Have never worked inside Shopify

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Prefer long approval processes and clearly defined corporate responsibilities

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Care about aesthetics but don't think about conversion or business outcomes

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Only specialize in one narrow area and don't enjoy wearing multiple hats

We're looking for someone scrappy, curious, opinionated, and execution-oriented.

If something looks wrong, we want you to notice it.

If you have a better idea, we want you to say it.

If something can be improved, we want you to take ownership of improving it.

Location

Remote within the United States.

React Skin is based in Orange County, California, and candidates located in Orange County, Los Angeles, or Southern California are strongly preferred.

There are no required weekly office days, but we'd love the ability to occasionally collaborate in person around packaging samples, product photography, creative sessions, launches, and other brand initiatives.

Exceptional candidates elsewhere in the United States are encouraged to apply.

Engagement

Contract

Approximately 15–25 hours per week to start, with the opportunity for the role and responsibility to grow significantly as the company grows.

We're looking for someone interested in becoming deeply involved with the brand rather than simply completing isolated freelance projects.

Compensation

$50–$75/hour, depending on experience, portfolio, and capabilities.

We're willing to pay toward the top of the range for someone who genuinely combines exceptional design taste, Shopify execution, packaging experience, and ecommerce thinking.

How to Apply

Please include:

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A link to your portfolio

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2–3 Shopify or ecommerce projects you're especially proud of

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Any packaging or physical product design work you've completed

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A brief explanation of what you personally designed and implemented on those projects

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Your experience working directly inside Shopify

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Your location and typical working hours

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Your hourly rate

Please do not apply without a portfolio.

We're much more interested in the quality of your work, taste, initiative, and ability to execute than where you went to school or whether you have the perfect resume.

If you love building consumer brands and want the opportunity to help shape one from an early stage, we'd love to hear from you.

To apply: