Overview

Polaris is Shopify’s design system. It helps us work together to build a great experience for all of Shopify’s merchants. Our team manages our style guide and the documentation you see on https://polaris.shopify.com/, our React component library, and the education and advocacy for the design system both internally with teams within Shopify, and externally with our partners building apps using Polaris for the Shopify ecosystem.

We’re looking for a lead to help grow this team. You will work on planning, resourcing, and executing projects, while providing mentorship and creating growth opportunities for the people on your team.

You’ll be expected to:

  • Ship exceptional user experiences on your projects and establish clear definitions of quality
  • Work closely with other discipline leads on the team to establish a vision for your area and strategic approach, and help your team achieve it iteratively
  • Help to mentor and lead individuals while also providing growth opportunities
  • Evaluate and provide supportive and constructive feedback to your reports
  • Identify potential and make appropriate space for individuals to step up and grow
  • Identify people and technical challenges on your team as they arise and help solve them

You’ll need to have:

  • A deep expertise in UX development as a craft
  • Knowledge about modern CSS language features, including flexbox, CSS grid, feature queries, etc
  • An understanding of HTML semantics and ARIA roles, and knowing their correct application
  • Knowledge about most modern standardized JavaScript language features, especially how they relate to interactions, animations, and performance
  • Demonstrable experience working on design systems or a large product
  • Experience directly managing a small team. Identifying the right expertise needed, assigning resources, recruiting new members and helping them grow.

It’d be great if you also have experience with:

  • React, TypeScript, and Sass
  • Managing an open source library

About Shopify

Shopify is a leading cloud-based, multichannel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Merchants can use the software to design, set up and manage their stores across multiple sales channels, including web, mobile, social media such as Pinterest and Facebook, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops. The platform also provides a merchant with a powerful back-office and a single view of their business.

The Shopify platform was engineered for reliability and scale, using enterprise-level technology made available to businesses of all sizes. Shopify currently powers over 200,000 businesses in approximately 150 countries, including: Tesla Motors, Budweiser, Wikipedia, LA Lakers, the New York Stock Exchange, GoldieBlox, and many more.

Your personal growth is important to us, and we’ll give you everything you need to make it happen: learning budgets, mentorship opportunities, one-on-one coaching, skill development workshops, you name it. We encourage you to experiment, take risks, and pursue the things you care about. And if you make a mistake? That’s ok – learn from it, and share your experience with the team.

We hope you’ll love it here, but we also know that it’s not all about work. We’ll help you maintain a healthy balance with a gym allowance, parental leave, childcare benefits, flexible work hours, and catered meals to give you more time for the things you care about most.

We’re growing quickly, so there are plenty of opportunities to learn and grow. You’ll have the creative freedom to make a real difference in the world of commerce, and the chance to work with some of the best in the business.