What You’ll Do
The Senior UI Designer is a systems-minded individual contributor responsible for elevating the visual quality, scalability, and consistency of Slingshot’s digital product interfaces. This role focuses on owning and evolving the user interface layer—crafting accessible, responsive, and elegant UI designs through close collaboration with product designers, engineers, and cross-functional teams.
Senior UI Designers are expected to lead component-driven interface design, contribute meaningfully to our design system, and uphold visual excellence across complex products—ranging from space mission platforms and data dashboards to 3D applications. We’re looking for someone who combines strong visual design craft with systems thinking and thrives in a distributed team environment. This role will own the UI and visual design of our marketing website, ensure visual consistency across product experiences, and actively support the evolution of our product design system.
Slingshot Aerospace cares deeply about our commitment to company values, mission, and purpose. The core competencies we will be looking to identify include: intellectual agility, ability to develop innovative solutions, leadership, performance-orientation, and industry expertise.
Responsibilities
Interface Design & Visual Systems · Design high-quality, production-ready marketing web user interface with strong layout, typography, color, spacing, and visual hierarchy.
- Translate product wireframes and marketing requirements into responsive, component-based UI mockups and prototypes.
- Partner with Product Designers and Marketing to bring interaction concepts to life with visual clarity, usability, and consistency.
- Create presentation assets and artifacts for leadership to leverage for external facing efforts (e.g. slide decks, video animations etc.)
- Contribute to accessibility and responsiveness standards across web-based and multi-device platforms.
Design System Contribution
- Help maintain and evolve Slingshot’s global design system in Figma—including tokens, components, documentation, and patterns.
- Collaborate with frontend developers to ensure implementation of UI components is consistent, scalable, and accessible.
- Document and communicate visual standards for the design system, promoting reuse, alignment, and shared ownership.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with Product Designers, engineers, product managers, researchers and Marketing to align interface design with product intent and technical feasibility.
- Participate in design critiques, implementation reviews, and QA to ensure strong visual execution from concept to code.
- Contribute to visual design culture by mentoring peers, sharing insights, and helping define scalable practices for UI quality.
Pre-Requisites
- Must be located in the UK
Minimum Requirements
- 4–6+ years of professional UI/visual design experience in product teams.
- Strong portfolio showcasing visually excellent, accessible, and system-based interface design across platforms.
- ● Advanced proficiency with Figma, including component libraries, variants, auto-layout, and documentation workflows.
- Experience working in cross-functional teams and communicating clearly across disciplines
- Availability for partial U.S. timezone overlap (~3–4 hours/day).
Preferred Skills
- Experience designing for technical, data-heavy, or 3D spatial tools (e.g., dashboards, geospatial interfaces, or mission planning).
- Familiarity with frontend development concepts and handoff workflows (e.g., design tokens, CSS frameworks, React).
- Motion/interaction design skills using tools like Framer, ProtoPie, Premier Pro, or After Effects
- Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and internationalization practices.
- Exposure to space, defense, or aerospace products is a plus.
*These skills are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to meet every qualification listed- if your skills are transferable and you meet the minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply.
Location: Remote, UK Preferred (Open to offshore talent in EU time zones)
Classification: Full-Time Exempt (professional exemption)
Compensation Range: £65,000 – £85,000 (GBP)
US-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following U.S. states: AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KS, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NV, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OR, RI, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, and WI. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other U.S. states at this time.
Internationally-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following locations: United Kingdom. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other countries at this time.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share a passion for creating a safer, more connected world. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also national origin, citizenship, sex, color, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic that is part of one’s identity. All of our employees’ points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.
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What We Do
Slingshot Aerospace builds world-class space simulation and analytics solutions. We are driven by our vision of accelerating space sustainability to create a safer, more connected world.
Space is increasingly complex due to the exponential growth of global launch activity, the proliferation of new data sources, and the ever-growing body of new satellites and debris. Organizations are making mission-critical decisions in this high-risk environment and they need the right information at the right time. Slingshot Aerospace empowers government and commercial space organizations to better design, manage, and safeguard their assets, as well as mitigate risks, to ensure safe and reliable operations for all space-faring users.
We are achieving this by bringing the space domain into the digital environment and fusing together data from different sources to provide a full, dynamic orbital picture. In doing so, Slingshot Aerospace customers can make decisions at the speed of relevance and achieve clarity in complex environments.
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