Office profile
Shopify Headquarters & offices · Ottawa, Canada
Shopify · Ottawa, Canada
No office you have to commute to: Shopify works remote-first and meets in five “Ports” — clubhouses for hack days and team Bursts.
How a company that once built a slide, a go-kart track and a ski chalet into its Ottawa floors went “digital by design” — then the benefits, the people and 20 years of addresses. Every fact from Shopify's own filings and careers pages.
- 5Ports: Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal, New York, Bellevue
- 90 daysa year working from almost anywhere
- ≈ 3 tripsin-person gatherings a year
- ≈ 7,600employees worldwide (Dec 31, 2025)
Sources: Form 10-K FY2025 · shopify.com/careers candidate guide (“Digital by Design”, “Compensation”) · Canadian Architect (Linebox Studio project, 2016)
Companies / Canada / Commerce software / Shopify
DIGITAL BY DESIGN · PORTS IN FIVE CITIES
From themed floors to “Ports”: offices you visit, not commute to
In May 2020 Shopify declared itself “digital by default” and said “office centricity is over”. It cut back its leased space and reworked what was left into Ports — “kinda like clubhouses” where teams from different groups meet to hack, pair and solve hard problems. Employees can drop in whenever they are in town (“Local Access”). Before that, Shopify's Ottawa offices by Linebox Studio were known for a different theme on every floor: a Canadiana chalet, shipping-container meeting pods, a slide between floors and an indoor go-kart track.
- Remote-first since 2020
- Ports: Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal, New York, Bellevue
- Owns no real property
- Ottawa floors: Linebox Studio
- Home desk and chair provided
Ottawa, 150 Elgin (2014)
Linebox Studio designed six floors at Performance Court with themed rooms — a log cabin, a sauna, a racetrack.
Montréal (2015)
Facts: shopify.com/careers candidate guide “Digital by Design” · Form 40-F Annual Information Form 2021 and 2023 · Tobi Lütke's statement of May 21, 2020 (as reported by CTV News Ottawa) · Canadian Architect, “At Work & At Play: Shopify Ottawa and Shopify Montreal” (2016, Linebox Studio project)
Ottawa headquarters, New York office and five Ports
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Headquarters (principal executive office) | 151 O'Connor Street, Ground Floor, Ottawa, Ontario K2P 2L8, Canada |
| New York office (also listed as a principal executive office) | 85 10th Avenue, Suite 800, New York, NY 10011, USA |
| Former headquarters, Performance Court (2014 – c. 2021) | 150 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1L4, Canada |
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, cover page · Form F-1 (2015) · shopify.com news, Oct 16, 2014 · See them on the map ↓
Source: shopify.com/careers “Digital by Design” · Form 40-F Annual Information Forms 2018 and 2023 (Property) · Canadian Architect, Linebox Studio project “Shopify Ottawa” (2016)
Benefits (worldwide; details vary by country)
“Destination 90”: up to 90 days a year working from almost anywhere.
A flexible vacation policy: most employees take the time they feel they need.
Choose your mix of cash, RSUs and stock options, including long-term equity programs.
Counselling and coaching for employees and their dependents, plus an Employee Assistance Program.
Paid parental leave and global fertility benefits.
Health, dental, vision, disability and life cover by country; a monthly allowance where there is no group plan.
A new desk, chair and the AV equipment you need, from day one.
Internal learning catalog, courses, conferences and a book expense allowance.
Source: shopify.com/careers candidate guide (“Compensation”, “Digital by Design”) · Form 10-K FY2025, Human Capital. Shopify does not publish the length of parental leave or a holiday count.
How Shopify keeps people, in its own words
A craft-first talent system: reviews every six months, and reaching a higher Mastery level is a promotion.
Employees slide their pay between cash-forward and maximum equity, and can model it over 3, 5 and 10 years.
Employees tackle novel projects; in 2025 Hack Days included in-person, cross-company teams.
A company-wide summit in Toronto, plus team “Bursts” and onboarding meet-ups — about three trips a year.
Trust grows with good work; when your “trust battery” is full you get to take more “shots on goal”.
Regular pulse checks, including a semi-annual survey.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, Human Capital · shopify.com/careers candidate guide (“Digital by Design”, “Compensation”)
Who works here
employees worldwide (Dec 31, 2025)
people, 2022 → 2025
the time zone Shopify generally works to
early-career programs: Dev Degree, internships, APM, Design Apprentice
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 · Form 40-F Annual Information Form 2022 · shopify.com/careers candidate guide. Shopify does not publish a breakdown by job type or gender in its annual report.
Office history: from a café table on Elgin Street to remote-first
- 2004 A table at the Bridgehead café on Elgin Street
Tobi Lütke launched Snowdevil, an online snowboard shop, in November 2004 without an office — he worked from the Bridgehead coffee shop on Elgin Street, Ottawa. The company was incorporated on September 28, 2004.
Source: Form 40-F Annual Information Form 2018 (incorporation) · Tobi Lütke interview, Ottawa Business Journal
Elgin Street, Ottawa, 2014 · Tony Webster / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2006 The Shopify platform launches
The company, renamed Jaded Pixel Technologies in January 2006, launched the Shopify platform that year. It took the name Shopify Inc. in November 2011.
Source: Form 40-F Annual Information Form 2018
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - Before 2014 126 York Street, ByWard Market
One of the early Ottawa offices; Shopify moved five times in its first ten years.
Source: Centretown News, 2014 (office named in the article on the 150 Elgin move)
York Street, ByWard Market, Ottawa, 2014 · Tony Webster / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2014 Back to Elgin Street: Performance Court, 150 Elgin
In October 2014 Shopify moved its headquarters to six floors (levels 6–11, 91,679 sq ft) of Performance Court, a LEED Gold tower at 150 Elgin Street — “we have come full circle”, said co-founder Daniel Weinand. Linebox Studio co-designed a different theme for every floor, joined by a grand staircase cut through the concrete.
Source: shopify.com news, Oct 16, 2014 · Canadian Architect (Linebox Studio project), 2016
Performance Court, 150 Elgin · Jeangagnon / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2017–19 Room for thousands in Ottawa
Shopify added floors in a tower on Laurier Avenue, again designed by Linebox Studio. By February 2019 it leased 619,971 sq ft in Ottawa (449,852 sq ft to 2032 and 170,119 sq ft to 2026) out of about 1.29 million sq ft in its nine main offices.
Source: Form 40-F Annual Information Form 2018 (Property) · Azure magazine on Linebox Studio, 2018
234 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa · Jeangagnon / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2020 “Office centricity is over”
On May 21, 2020 CEO Tobi Lütke announced that Shopify was “digital by default”: offices would stay closed until 2021 to be reworked, and most employees would work remotely for good.
Source: Tobi Lütke's statement as reported by CTV News Ottawa · Form 40-F Annual Information Form 2021
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2021–22 Smaller footprint, offices become Ports
Shopify reduced its leased footprint in 2021 and repurposed the remaining spaces for team collaboration and events. It opened a New York City space in Q3 2021, and its registered office moved to 151 O'Connor Street, Ottawa.
Source: Form 40-F Annual Information Forms 2021 and 2022
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2025 Ottawa and New York on the cover
Shopify's 10-K now lists two principal executive offices: 151 O'Connor Street in Ottawa and 85 10th Avenue in New York. The company-wide Summit was held in Toronto.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, cover page and Human Capital
151 O'Connor Street, Ottawa, 2019 · Jeangagnon / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
| Annual report | HQ space (sq ft) | m² | As described |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 91,679 | 8,517 | 150 Elgin Street, levels 6–11 (headquarters) |
| AIF 2018 | 619,971 | 57,597 | Ottawa, two leases |
| AIF 2018 | 1,288,214 | 119,679 | Nine main offices: Ottawa, Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Montréal |
| AIF 2021 | Reduced | — | Footprint cut; spaces repurposed for gatherings (not quantified) |
Map: how the headquarters moved
Shopify's Ottawa addresses all sit within about 1.5 km of each other downtown — from the ByWard Market to Elgin Street and O'Connor Street. Since 2025 its annual report also names a New York office as a principal executive office.
- 1 · Before 2014126 York Street, Ottawa — An early office in the ByWard Market
- 2 · 2014Performance Court, 150 Elgin Street, Ottawa — Headquarters on six themed floors by Linebox Studio
- 3 · 202185 10th Avenue, New York — New York space opened; now a principal executive office
- 4 · Today151 O'Connor Street, Ottawa — Headquarters and registered office
Addresses: Centretown News (2014), shopify.com news (2014), Form F-1, Annual Information Forms 2021–2022, Form 10-K FY2025 · Locations: OpenStreetMap
What Shopify does
Shopify calls itself “essential internet infrastructure for commerce”: one platform for starting, running and growing a business online, in stores and on other channels. It began in 2004 as a snowboard shop, Snowdevil, whose founders built their own store software.
Two revenue streams: subscription solutions (plans, POS Pro, apps, themes, domains) and merchant solutions (mainly Shopify Payments, plus lending, shipping labels, POS hardware and advertising).
Where the money came from · where Shopify's merchants are, Dec 31, 2025 (share of merchants)
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, Item 1 (merchants in more than 175 countries; more than 21,000 apps in the Shopify App Store)
Source: Shopify Q4 and full-year 2025 results release (Feb 11, 2026; Form 8-K) · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo. Shopify reports in US dollars.
Growth: revenue vs. people
$23.7M → $11.6B
131 → 7,600
Calendar years, US dollars. Revenue: Form F-1 (2012), Forms 40-F and 10-K, Q4 2025 results release. People: F-1 (2012, employees); Annual Information Forms 2017–2023 (approximate “employees and contractors”); 10-K 2024–2025 (approximate employees). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Co-founder. CTO from 2004 to April 2008, CEO since April 2008; on the board since 2004.
Co-founder; Shopify's first CEO.
Co-founders: Tobi Lütke, Scott Lake and Daniel Weinand.
Source: shopify.com/investors board of directors · shopify.com news (2014, Daniel Weinand as co-founder) · Wikipedia (Scott Lake as first CEO)
Hear it from the CEO
Shopify: questions people ask
Where is Shopify's headquarters?
Shopify is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, at 151 O'Connor Street. Since its 2025 annual report it also lists 85 10th Avenue in New York as a principal executive office.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, cover page
Does Shopify have offices, or is it fully remote?
Shopify is remote-first — it calls this “Digital by Design”. Employees work where they work best and meet in person at “Ports”, hubs in Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal, New York and Bellevue, which they can drop into whenever they are in town.
Source: shopify.com/careers “Digital by Design” · Form 10-K FY2025
How often do Shopify employees meet in person?
About three times a year: onboarding with your new cohort (Startup Connections), the company-wide Summit in Toronto, and at least one team “Burst”. Hack Days also bring teams together.
Source: shopify.com/careers “Digital by Design” · Form 10-K FY2025
When did Shopify go remote?
On May 21, 2020, CEO Tobi Lütke announced that Shopify was “digital by default” and that “office centricity is over”. In 2021 the company reduced its leased space and repurposed the rest for team gatherings.
Source: CTV News Ottawa (Lütke's statement) · Form 40-F Annual Information Form 2021
Who designed Shopify's Ottawa offices?
Linebox Studio. Its 2014 design for levels 6–11 of 150 Elgin Street gave every floor a theme — a Canadiana ski chalet, shipping-container pods, a slide and an indoor go-kart track — linked by a grand staircase. Linebox also designed later floors on Laurier Avenue and offices in Montréal and Toronto.
Source: Canadian Architect (2016) · Azure (2018)
What benefits does Shopify offer?
Up to 90 days a year working from almost anywhere, flexible vacation, a choice of cash, RSUs and stock options, counselling and coaching through Modern Health for employees and dependents, paid parental leave and global fertility benefits, and a home desk and chair.
Source: shopify.com/careers “Compensation” and “Digital by Design”
How many people work at Shopify?
About 7,600 employees worldwide at December 31, 2025, down from about 11,600 employees and contractors at the end of 2022.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 · Annual Information Form 2022
Can you visit Shopify's offices?
Shopify does not publish public tours. Its Ports are described as hubs for Shopify employees (“Local Access”), not public spaces.
Source: shopify.com/careers “Digital by Design”
Who is Shopify's CEO?
Tobi Lütke, who co-founded the company in 2004, served as CTO until April 2008 and has been CEO since then.
Source: shopify.com/investors board of directors
How did Shopify start?
As Snowdevil, an online snowboard shop launched in November 2004; Tobi Lütke worked from a café on Elgin Street in Ottawa. The Shopify platform launched in 2006.
Source: Annual Information Form 2018 · Ottawa Business Journal interview
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