196: What a Shopify design recruiter looks for in a senior UX portfolio

Podcast: Career Strategy Podcast with Sarah Doody | UX, Product Design, UX Research · Sarah Doody from Career Strategy Lab

Opublikowano: 2026-10-12

A senior UX portfolio gets read differently than a junior one, and most people never find out how until they're already in the rejection pile. Jared Tredly has spent around 15 years in recruitment, most recently as a design recruiter at Shopify, where he was hiring for roughly 30 open design roles at the time of this conversation. Before that, he worked agency side, where a single role could pull in 700 applicants a week. He's blunt about what actually happens to a UX portfolio once it lands in front of someone like him. At Shopify he...