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Propeller Santa Monica studio

Santa Monica · Los Angeles

Built for brands that want to be looked at.

We build scalable Shopify commerce with cinematic craft, then grow it with discipline. From first market to international expansion, Propeller is the studio brands are proud to name.

The studio

Commerce, as culture.

Propeller partners with ambitious brands to design, build, and grow digital commerce that feels inevitable: engineered for performance, composed with restraint, ready to scale.

We specialize in Shopify and Shopify Plus systems: storefronts that convert, architectures that hold under load, and growth loops that compound. When brands expand into new markets, we treat international as craft. Localization, multi-currency, and operational reality sit in the same brief as the brand experience.

Platforms we’ve built for client needs (BrewClub, Bookings, Propeller Intelligence) sit alongside agency work when the brief calls for more than a theme.

Shopify Partner
Propeller craft and collaboration

Partners

  • Google Partner
  • Meta Marketing Partners
  • Clutch
  • The Drum Recommended
  • Shopify Partner

Cool is clarity under pressure, and a store that actually sells.

Values

What we refuse to compromise.

  • Commerce with teeth

    Beauty that doesn’t convert is decoration. Every decision has to earn its keep in clarity, conversion, or operational truth.

  • Systems, not slides

    Storefront, experience, growth, and technology stay on the same team. No handoff theater. No orphaned strategy decks.

  • Built to scale

    We design Shopify and Shopify Plus architectures that hold under traffic, complexity, and time. Stores that grow with the brand, not against it.

  • International by design

    Multi-market, multi-currency, and expansion-ready commerce is a first-class problem here, not a bolt-on after launch.

  • Taste under pressure

    Restraint is a competitive advantage. We leave the noise on the cutting-room floor so what remains feels inevitable.

  • Proud to put our name on it

    Ambitious brands. Honest partnerships. Work you’d wear. If it isn’t something we’re proud of, it doesn’t ship.

Team

Who shows up to the brief.

A close-knit studio. Obsessed with the products we build and the brands we ship for.

  • Ben Roberts

    Ben Roberts

    Founder / President

  • Heather Marie

    Heather Marie

    Chief Growth Strategist

  • Nathan Matthews

    Nathan Matthews

    Chief Strategy Director

  • Nina Bachelor

    Nina Bachelor

    Chief People Director

  • Ellie Mae

    Ellie Mae

    Chief Finance Executive

Recognition

Select awards.

GoodFirms. Best in Search. Clutch. Recognition is nice. Your results are the point.

  • Clutch Top Advertising & Marketing Agencies California 2023
  • GoodFirms Top Digital Marketing Companies
  • UpCity 2022 National Excellence Winner United States
  • Clutch Top Advertising & Marketing Agencies 2021
  • TOPSEOs Best in Search

How we work

Scalable stores. Expansion-ready systems.

Whether you're launching on Shopify, moving to Plus, or opening new markets, we build the commerce system to travel: performance, merchandising, checkout, and the growth stack that feeds it.

International expansion isn't a plugin. It's catalog architecture, localization, payments, shipping truth, and a brand experience that still feels like you when it crosses a border.

Presence

Santa Monica. Worldwide.

A coastal studio shipping Shopify and ecommerce systems for brands that refuse to look interchangeable. Locally rooted, globally minded.

1541 Ocean Ave, Suite 208
Santa Monica, CA 90401

newbiz@propeller.marketing+1 (424) 249-9199
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Want in?

Briefs welcome. Ego optional. Ambition required.