React Skin: Founding Ecommerce & Brand Designer (Shopify + Packaging)

Headquarters: Costa Mesa, CA

URL: http://reactskin.com

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

Help turn our Shopify store into a best-in-class ecommerce experience
Design and build high-converting homepages, product pages, landing pages, collection pages, and campaign experiences
Continuously improve the mobile shopping experience
Create reusable Shopify sections and components
Customize themes beyond what the Shopify editor provides
Make light HTML, CSS, Liquid, and JavaScript changes when needed
Evaluate and implement Shopify apps without unnecessarily bloating the store
Improve site speed, usability, navigation, merchandising, and conversion
Help build bundles, upsells, cross-sells, subscriptions, promotional experiences, and other AOV/CRO initiatives
Use customer behavior and performance data to continually improve the storefront

Brand & Creative

Help evolve the overall React Skin visual identity
Maintain consistency across typography, color, imagery, layout, and creative direction
Create campaign concepts and digital assets
Design paid social and organic creative when needed
Help establish a recognizable visual language for the brand
Research leading skincare, beauty, fashion, and DTC brands and bring relevant ideas into React Skin without copying competitors
Translate rough founder ideas and references into polished creative

Packaging

Design and evolve product packaging, bottles, labels, cartons, inserts, and other physical brand touchpoints
Work from printer and manufacturer dielines
Prepare production-ready packaging files
Understand print considerations such as bleeds, finishes, materials, Pantone/CMYK colors, typography, and label requirements
Work with manufacturers and vendors to turn concepts into physical products
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:

Conversion rate
Product page structure
Social proof
Product education
Before/after and benefit communication
Offers and promotions
Bundles
Average order value
Upsells and cross-sells
Mobile usability
Checkout friction
Landing page performance
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:

You have approximately 3–7+ years of relevant ecommerce, brand, web, or DTC design experience
You have a strong portfolio that demonstrates exceptional visual taste
You’ve designed real ecommerce experiences, ideally for consumer brands
You’re highly comfortable with Shopify
You’re strong in Figma
You understand responsive web and mobile-first design
You’re comfortable making light HTML/CSS/Liquid changes yourself
You understand branding beyond simply creating logos
You have experience with packaging or physical product design
You understand how design affects ecommerce conversion
You notice the tiny details that make a brand feel premium
You’re comfortable working in an early-stage environment where priorities can move quickly
You’re resourceful and able to figure things out without needing detailed instructions
You enjoy taking something from idea → design → implementation

Bonus Points

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

Beauty, skincare, wellness, fashion, or premium consumer brands
Klaviyo
Shopify subscriptions
Replo or similar Shopify landing page tools
Adobe Illustrator / Photoshop
Product photography or creative direction
Packaging production
Print vendors and manufacturers
Meta/TikTok advertising creative
A/B testing and CRO tools
Basic JavaScript
Shopify theme development
Analytics tools such as GA4 or Shopify Analytics
TikTok Shop

What We Don’t Want

We’re probably not the right fit if you:

Only want to create Figma designs and hand them to a developer
Need detailed instructions for every task
Have never worked inside Shopify
Prefer long approval processes and clearly defined corporate responsibilities
Care about aesthetics but don’t think about conversion or business outcomes
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:

A link to your portfolio
2–3 Shopify or ecommerce projects you’re especially proud of
Any packaging or physical product design work you’ve completed
A brief explanation of what you personally designed and implemented on those projects
Your experience working directly inside Shopify
Your location and typical working hours
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.

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