# Nick T. > Staff Product Designer at Shopify Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Profile: https://flows.cv/nickt With 15 years of experience in product design, I help lead design for growth at Shopify. I also mentor early career designers at ADPlist, a global leader in digital skills training, where I share my passion and expertise with aspiring designers. ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer, Growth RnD @ Shopify Jan 2023 – Present | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Serving 5M entrepreneurs and helping make the best e-commerce platform on earth. I work on growth initiatives serving the partner ecosystem, premier plan tiers, and acquisition across all segments. ### Mentor @ adplist.org Jan 2023 – Present Over 2000 minutes of mentor time with folks looking to find their next job, their first job or changing careers into UX. Book me here 👉 https://adplist.org/mentors/nick-tchir ### Product Design Manager @ BenchSci Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada In my first foray into design leadership, I led a team of 7 product designers with diverse skill levels—ranging from junior to senior—supporting mission-critical tools for AI-driven biomedical research. Reporting directly to the Director of Product Design, I balanced coaching, hiring, and team rituals with driving product outcomes across multiple streams. Helped shape design vision and execution for BenchSci’s internal platforms, aligning scientific complexity with clarity and usability. Invested in team growth through structured feedback, mentorship, and design critiques, while partnering cross-functionally to ensure design was tightly integrated into agile product development. ### Staff Product Designer @ Meta Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Led design strategy to increase adoption of internal contract tools over external software. Validated roadmap direction through mixed-method research and stakeholder workshops, including VP-level demos. Applied systems thinking within the Meta XDS design system, both leveraging and contributing to its complex component library. ### Staff Product Designer @ Wealthsimple Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada Led design for a major platform unification, bringing Invest, Trade, and Cash into a single cohesive app experience. Partnered cross-functionally to solve complex IA and navigation challenges through research-led strategy and systems thinking. Delivered high-fidelity architecture, aligned UI/UX with product vision, and collaborated with engineering to ship, measure, and iterate quickly. ### Head of Design @ Snack - Video First Dating Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 Led design at an early-stage startup focused on reshaping the dating space, managing a team of 4 designers and reporting directly to the CEO. Balanced hands-on product design with strategic leadership—building, prototyping, and testing new features in close collaboration with users and curated community feedback loops. Mentored the design team with structured feedback and career support, while establishing systems and rituals that scaled as we grew. Drove product strategy by analyzing user behaviour daily and guiding feature direction, iteration, and long-term positioning. Laid the foundation for our design system and operational processes, ensuring cohesion, clarity, and speed across teams. ### Founder + CEO @ Savor Wellness Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Vancouver, Canada Area Founded Savr to explore how lifelong relationships with food shape behaviour, and how thoughtful design can help people build healthier habits. Led divergent research to define a deeply personal, often abstract problem space, grounding the product in empathy and behavioural insight. Raised a seed round, built the MVP in React Native, and launched a cross-platform subscription app from the ground up. Designed the brand’s tone, visual system, and emotional resonance across all touchpoints. Recruited and led a small team to help realize the vision, while staying hands-on in product design, testing, and iteration. ### Senior Product Designer @ Neon | Products that matter Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Vancouver, Canada Area Partnered with clients to bring early-stage business ideas to market through strategy, research, and design. Balanced persuasion and collaboration to guide decision-making, keeping projects aligned and moving forward. Adapted quickly to evolving priorities, delivering high-quality outcomes in fast-paced, ambiguous environments. ### Senior Product Designer @ Virtual Visions Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Designed and deployed omnichannel hardware/software experiences for brands like Uniqlo, Lululemon, Nordstrom, and CVS. Built interactive retail systems using custom sensors, Android ROMs, capacitive touch, transparent OLEDs, AR, projection mapping, and RFID. Prototyped and shipped immersive installations that bridged physical and digital retail. ### Product Designer @ PlentyOfFish Media ULC. Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Vancouver, Canada Area Contributed to both revenue and retention teams, driving feature development across iOS and Android. Led end-to-end design initiatives—framing problems, aligning stakeholders, and shaping solutions grounded in user and business outcomes. Shipped high-impact features used by millions, balancing platform consistency with performance goals and user needs. ### Product Designer @ Invoke Media Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Vancouver, Canada Area Explored and defined product strategies by deconstructing user scenarios and mapping behavioural insights to business goals. Designed end-to-end experiences from early concepts to high-fidelity prototypes and flows. Helped ship first-in-class, first-to-market products across industries—leveraging emerging technologies to deliver innovative, user-centred solutions. ### Product Designer @ Switchboard Public Relations Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Collaborated with a diverse range of SaaS companies to design impactful website experiences for product and feature launches. Drove design strategy from concept to execution, ensuring seamless user journeys that aligned with both brand and business objectives. Shipped high-visibility, user-focused digital experiences that supported key product milestones and market positioning. ### Web and Graphic Designer @ Ballistic Arts Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Created storyboards and low-fidelity prototypes to guide clients through digital user journeys. Designed responsive websites for a wide range of clients, including municipal governments, law firms, real estate firms, and post-secondary institutions. Built a strong foundation in user-centred design, cross-industry collaboration, and stakeholder communication. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design LaSalle College Vancouver ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicktchir - Portfolio: https://nicktchir.design --- Source: https://flows.cv/nickt JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nickt/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31