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Sidekick makes injury recovery products for athletes, the kind you'll have seen in Men's Health or Running Magazine. They just opened a new eCommerce Digital Designer role.
It's open to remote candidates broadly, no hard exclusion on South Africa in the listing, though I'd confirm eligibility directly before you invest real time in the application.
The role covers taking a copy brief and wireframe through to a live, working landing page yourself, no developer handoff. It pays $3,000 to $4,000 a month, roughly R49,000 to R66,000 at today's rate. That is around 2x what a mid-level ecommerce or digital designer earns locally.
If you've got 5+ years of digital design experience with real DTC or ecommerce chops, and you want direct access to the CGO and Creative Director instead of layers of approval, this is worth a look today. Bring a portfolio with finished, live pages, not just mockups.
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An ecommerce design seat paying $3-4k a month, EMEA-inclusive picks, and a Replo skill worth learning this week.
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The rand had a genuine week. Citi is now calling for USD/ZAR to hold near R16.45 through the next quarter and drift toward R16.15 within the year, which matters if you earn in dollars and spend in rands. It tracks with what I'm seeing on the job boards too: DTC and ecommerce brands are hiring fast for design and growth roles right now, often skipping the agency layers entirely and going straight to small, high-ownership teams. That shift toward lean in-house setups is good news if you want real influence over your work, not a seat further down the org chart. Today's featured role is a solid example of exactly that.
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eCommerce Digital Designer
Sidekick
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Sidekick makes injury recovery products trusted by Olympic athletes and featured in Men's Health. They need someone who can turn a copy brief and a wireframe into a landing page that actually converts, then build it live themselves in Replo. No agency handoffs, no waiting on a developer to ship your work. If you've got real DTC design chops, this is refreshingly hands-on.
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Monthly salary
$3,000 - $4,000/mo ~R57,500/mo
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vs. local equivalent
~2.3x the average local ecommerce/digital designer salary
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What you'll do
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Bring a portfolio with finished, live landing pages, not just Figma mockups. They want proof you can execute in a page builder (Replo), not just design in the abstract. |
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Reference a specific DTC or ecommerce page you've built and what it converted at when you apply. They explicitly want you to walk through real examples. |
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Apply only through the Typeform link in the listing. Direct outreach to the company won't be reviewed. |
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You're a fit if
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You have 5+ years of digital design experience, with at least 3 specifically in ecommerce or DTC. This isn't a junior seat. |
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Fully remote with no fixed hours stated, but expect quick turnarounds. Your work goes live within days of the brief. |
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You want direct access to the CGO and Creative Director on a small team, not layers of approval before anything ships. |
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Remote ready score
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8/10 |
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Skill worth knowing
Replo is showing up in ecommerce design briefs
Replo is a no-code landing page builder built specifically for Shopify and DTC brands, and it turned up explicitly as a required skill in today's featured brief, alongside Figma. It's catching on because ecommerce teams want designers who can go from mockup to a live, working page without waiting on a developer, which shortens the loop between a brief and a page that's actually converting. If you design for ecommerce, spend an afternoon this week building a mock product landing page in Replo's free tier and see how it compares to handing the same brief off to a developer.
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