About the role
Shopify’s Design Apprentice (DA), Product Design role is a paid 12 month position, made up of two team placements, designed to develop early design talent into future product design leaders.
As a DA, you’ll learn how design is essential to Shopify’s mission - defining how we build products, solve problems, grow the company, empower our merchants, and engage their buyers. You will be supported by a dedicated mentor, a working community of peers, and a comprehensive learning program. You’ll work alongside some of the best designers in the industry on products that will have a real impact on our merchants.
The Opportunity:
- Join a high performing Product Design team that will constantly push you to grow and improve. Real talk - get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
- Take part in the product design life cycle at Shopify.
- Learn Shopify’s product design craft
- Complete two different team placements, partnered with a Staff Product Designer on the team to guide and coach you through your journey
Participants are expected to learn rapidly, adapt, and achieve impactful results for our merchants within 12 months. If you prefer detailed direction and a clear roadmap to follow, this role probably isn’t for you.
Qualifications
We are looking for:
- Driven individuals with a history of positive impact and solving complex problems
- Resourceful self-starters who are energized by challenges and ambiguity
- Proactive dedication to and ownership of self development and learning
- An AI-builder mindset - leveraging the latest AI tools and models to level-up your processes and capabilities
- Legally eligible to work from the Canada and/or the US by January 12th, 2026
- Able to work a minimum of 40 hours per week as of January 2026. This is not a part time opportunity.
Key Info
- This application will close October 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST
- Program start date: January 12, 2026. All selected candidates MUST be available to start on this date. No exceptions will be granted given the short-term nature of this program. We want you to get the most out of it!
- You must have legal authorization to work full time (40 hours a week) in Canada or the United States. Shopify will not provide visa or immigration support.
- You’ll hear back from us within 3-4 weeks from the job posting closing date
- This role is 100% remote, but if you are welcome to come into one of our local offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, New York, or Bellevue.
About Shopify
Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. We propel entrepreneurs and enterprises to scale the heights of their potential. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 8,300 employees and generated over $1 trillion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries.
This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.
About you
Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.
Before you apply, consider if you can:
- Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
- Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
- Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
- Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
- Bring critical thought and opinion
- Use AI tools reflexively as part of your fundamental workflow
- Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
- Work digital-first for your daily work
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