eCommerce Placement specializes in placing UX/UI Designers and eCommerce design talent at DTC brands, retailers, and agencies across the US, Canada, and UK. Contingency-based. No placement, no fee.
The Role
UX and UI design in eCommerce directly impacts conversion, customer satisfaction, and revenue. The best eCommerce designers understand how design decisions affect funnel performance — from homepage layout to PDP structure to checkout flow — and combine design craft with a data-informed approach to customer experience.
Our Approach
We work on contingency, meaning you pay our fee only when we successfully place a candidate. No retainer. No upfront cost. Our fee is 20% of the placed candidate's first-year base salary, invoiced on their start date.
Every placement includes a replacement guarantee. If a hire does not work out within the guarantee period, we conduct a new search at no additional cost.
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eCommerce design is distinct from app or enterprise UX. The commerce context, the conversion orientation, and the platform constraints are specific to this environment.
The strongest eCommerce UX/UI candidates understand how their design decisions affect conversion metrics. They design with data and are comfortable working alongside CRO, analytics, and merchandising teams to test and iterate.
eCommerce UX/UI designers need familiarity with the platforms they are designing for — Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, custom builds, and headless architectures each have distinct design constraints. We screen for platform-relevant experience.
With the majority of eCommerce traffic on mobile, the best candidates lead with mobile-first design thinking. We assess mobile UX portfolio depth as part of every eCommerce design search.
What We Fill
User experience design for eCommerce sites and apps with focus on customer journey and conversion.
Visual interface design for eCommerce platforms spanning desktop and mobile experiences.
Combined UX and UI role for eCommerce brands requiring end-to-end design ownership.
Interaction design specialist focused on micro-interactions, motion, and digital experience quality.
Senior individual contributor with broader scope and potential team leadership.
UX leadership role overseeing design strategy and team for eCommerce businesses.
Our Process
Most eCommerce UX/UI design searches deliver an initial shortlist in 1 to 2 weeks and a placed candidate in 3 to 6 weeks.
FAQ
Our eCommerce UX/UI candidates have experience across Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, InVision, Maze, UserTesting, Hotjar, FullStory, and prototyping tools. Figma is the dominant tool in most eCommerce design environments today. We align tool requirements with your existing design stack.
UX Designer compensation at eCommerce brands typically ranges from $75,000 to $110,000 for mid-level roles. Senior UX Designers and UX/UI leads typically earn $105,000 to $145,000. Head of UX roles typically run $140,000 to $180,000. Our 2026 eCommerce Salary Guide includes detailed benchmarks.
Essential. We assess every design candidate's portfolio as part of our screening process, looking specifically for eCommerce-relevant work: product detail pages, checkout flows, category navigation, mobile experiences, and evidence of design decisions informed by data or testing outcomes.
Yes. We recruit UX/UI design talent for agencies delivering eCommerce design and development services, as well as brand-side roles. Agency designers typically work across multiple client environments at higher production volume. Brand-side designers typically have deeper ownership of a single platform experience.
A UX Designer focuses on the user journey, information architecture, wireframing, and usability — the structure and flow of the experience. A UI Designer focuses on the visual layer: typography, color, layout, and the pixel-level appearance of the interface. Many eCommerce brands hire combined UX/UI roles, while larger organizations separate the two disciplines.
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