The Marketing team at Shield AI is hiring a Senior Designer to lead the development and execution of integrated brand campaigns. Working closely with the Director of Brand and Creative, you’ll translate campaign strategy and creative direction into distinctive visual concepts and cohesive systems that work across digital, social, events, presentations, advertising, and other brand touchpoints.
You’ll be a close creative partner throughout the campaign process—from early concept development and visual exploration through production and launch. You’ll help shape briefs, develop campaign ideas, establish the visual direction, and turn approved concepts into clear systems that other designers, agencies, and production partners can execute consistently.
You’ll own high-visibility design work while also providing direction, feedback, and hands-on support across the broader campaign. You’ll collaborate with writers, designers, video teams, marketers, and external partners to connect messaging and visuals, solve creative problems, and keep the work aligned as requirements evolve.
This is a senior individual contributor role for a designer with strong judgment, exceptional craft, and a bias toward action. You can move between concept and execution, present and defend your thinking, incorporate feedback without weakening the idea, and deliver polished work under demanding timelines. You’ll help raise the creative standard across Shield AI while ensuring every campaign feels clear, cohesive, and unmistakably on brand.
Required qualifications:
- 6+ years of professional design experience, with a portfolio demonstrating conceptually strong, integrated brand campaigns.
- Expert command of visual design, including typography, composition, color, imagery, and art direction.
- Demonstrated ability to translate campaign strategy and creative briefs into distinctive concepts and scalable visual systems.
- Experience developing campaigns across digital, social, advertising, events, presentations, and other brand touchpoints.
- Ability to move fluidly from early concept development through detailed design and final production.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
- Experience directing and reviewing work produced by designers, agencies, and production partners.
- Strong presentation skills, including the ability to clearly explain and defend creative decisions to senior stakeholders.
- Experience collaborating closely with writers, marketers, video teams, and other creative disciplines.
- Ability to manage multiple high-visibility projects, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and deliver exceptional work under tight deadlines.
- Strong understanding of production requirements across digital and print formats.
- Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to brand consistency.
- Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor, taking ownership of work without requiring day-to-day direction.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience designing for aerospace, defense, advanced technology, or another complex technical industry.
- Experience translating technical products and capabilities into clear, compelling campaign creative.
- Background working in an in-house brand studio or creative agency on large, integrated campaigns.
- Experience partnering closely with a creative director from initial concept through launch.
- Art direction experience across photography, illustration, motion, video, and 3D.
- Experience directing agencies, freelancers, photographers, and other production partners.
- Familiarity with environmental graphics, event experiences, and large-format production.
- Experience developing campaign systems that can be extended consistently by other designers and teams.
- Working knowledge of motion design, video production, or 3D workflows.
- Familiarity with legal, brand, data-handling, and export-control reviews for public-facing creative work.
Skills Required
- 6+ years of professional design experience with a portfolio demonstrating conceptually strong, integrated brand campaigns.
- Expert command of visual design, including typography, composition, color, imagery, and art direction.
- Ability to translate campaign strategy and creative briefs into distinctive concepts and scalable visual systems.
- Experience developing campaigns across digital, social, advertising, events, presentations, and other brand touchpoints.
- Ability to move from early concept development through detailed design and final production.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
- Experience directing and reviewing work produced by designers, agencies, and production partners.
- Strong presentation skills and ability to explain and defend creative decisions to senior stakeholders.
- Experience collaborating with writers, marketers, video teams, and other creative disciplines.
- Ability to manage multiple high-visibility projects and deliver exceptional work under tight deadlines.
- Strong understanding of production requirements across digital and print formats.
- Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to brand consistency.
- Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor and take ownership without day-to-day direction.
- Experience designing for aerospace, defense, advanced technology, or another complex technical industry.
- Experience translating technical products and capabilities into clear campaign creative.
- Background in an in-house brand studio or creative agency on large, integrated campaigns.
- Experience partnering with a creative director from concept through launch.
- Art direction experience across photography, illustration, motion, video, and 3D.
- Experience directing agencies, freelancers, photographers, and production partners.
- Familiarity with environmental graphics, event experiences, and large-format production.
- Experience developing campaign systems that other designers and teams can extend consistently.
- Working knowledge of motion design, video production, or 3D workflows.
- Familiarity with legal, brand, data-handling, and export-control reviews for public-facing creative work.
What the Team is Saying
Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as excellent, with dental/vision and mental‑health support, and ancillary protections like life and disability appearing in benefit summaries. The breadth and perceived affordability of coverage are highlighted as a standout component of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is featured alongside enhanced maternity benefits, fertility and childcare support, and onsite resources such as a Mother’s Room. These elements are positioned as competitive and above the minimal baseline for the company’s stage.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is granted to all full‑time hires, with RSUs, double‑trigger tax timing, and tools to model scenarios (e.g., through Carta Tax). Communications also reference a transition from options to RSUs, reinforcing access and maturity of ownership programs.
Shield AI Insights
What We Do
At Shield AI, you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.
Why Work With Us
Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield AI builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.
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