If you think ecommerce can be an experience, not just a transaction, help us build the future.

At Tortuga Backpacks, you will create the visual identity and user experience for a successful, but still early stage, travel company. Join us as the second full-time member of our design team alongside Patrick, our industrial designer.

Please note that we are a small team. You should have a holistic skill set and be willing to take on any design-related challenge from research to conception to development.

Mission

To grow Tortuga Backpacks’ community of travelers through amazing customer experiences with our websites and products.

Objectives

• Research, design, and build a modern ecommerce website that tells a story and engages our community of travelers, not just one that sells products. Examples: Pencil, Smart Bedding, Trunkster, Everlane, Beard Brand.
• Define Tortuga Backpacks’ brand identity for use on our web sites, product packaging and labeling, and marketing. Publish brand guidelines for the rest of the team to use.
• Create packaging, labeling, and inserts for our new and redesigned products to improve our customer experience.
• Improve our website and blog through A/B testing and conversion optimization

Requirements

* Jill/Jack-of-All-Trades: Taking on any design-related challenge while learning new skills and upgrading existing ones. * Ecommerce User Experience: Creating an ecommerce experience that tells a story, builds a community, and sells products, not just a stock theme. Bonus points for experience with Shopify, our ecommerce platform. * Branding: Defining the visual identity of a brand from (almost) scratch. * Front-End Development: Building websites in HTML and CSS.Bonus points for Javascript and Liquid (Shopify’s language).

Do Not Apply If

• You don’t care deeply about travel. If you ever get sick of thinking about travel, we are not the right company for you.
• You like working at a big company. We are a small business. There is no HR department. There are no layers of management. If you need something done, you do it.

Benefits

Aside from getting to work with other travel lovers, all full-time employees receive the following benefits.

* Work from Anywhere: Tortuga Backpacks is 100% distributed. Decide where you work best, whether that’s from home, a coffeeshop, a co-working space, or another country. * Team Retreats: Once per year, we gather in one place to work together, to plan the future of the company, and to have fun in-person. Our last retreat was in San Sebastían, Spain. * Unlimited Vacation: You decide how much of a break you need and when. Just promise to tell us about your trip when you get back. * Free Gear: All the bags and accessories you need for your future travels. * Total Coverage: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance. We pay 100% of your premiums and 50% of your dependents’ premiums.

Extra tags: ux, user experience, ecommerce