Shield AI is hiring a Senior UI Designer to lead the design evolution of the Shield AI website and establish the foundational systems that support it. This role owns the digital experience from interface strategy through high-fidelity execution, creating clear, scalable, and cohesive experiences across corporate, product, campaign, and editorial content.
You will partner closely with brand, marketing, product, and development teams to translate complex autonomy and defense technology into intuitive web experiences. The ideal candidate brings strong visual design judgment, systems thinking, and a practical understanding of how design decisions translate into performant, accessible digital products.
What you'll do:
- Lead UI design for the Shield AI website across core pages, product experiences, landing pages, campaign content, and microsites
- Define the website’s visual and interaction standards, ensuring a cohesive experience across desktop, tablet, and mobile
- Create foundational design systems in Figma, including component libraries, design tokens, responsive patterns, templates, and documentation
- Establish reusable page frameworks and modular content patterns that enable teams to build new web experiences efficiently and consistently
- Design high-fidelity user interfaces, interaction states, prototypes, and responsive layouts for new and existing site experiences
- Partner with developers to ensure accurate implementation, provide design QA, and refine interfaces through launch
- Collaborate with brand and content teams to translate complex technical narratives into clear information hierarchies, visual storytelling, and user journeys
- Improve the usability, accessibility, navigation, and overall clarity of the Shield AI web experience
- Support the design of interactive content, data visualizations, motion concepts, and product storytelling in collaboration with creative and development partners
- Audit existing website experiences and identify opportunities to improve consistency, component reuse, accessibility, and visual quality
- Maintain and evolve design documentation, file organization, naming conventions, and workflows that support a scalable design practice
- Advise stakeholders on UI best practices, responsive design, accessibility, technical feasibility, and system-level design decisions
Required qualifications:
- 5–8 years of experience in UI, web, or digital product design, with experience leading major website or digital-platform initiatives
- A portfolio demonstrating strong visual design, interface design, responsive web design, and design-system thinking
- Advanced proficiency in Figma, including components, variants, auto layout, variables, prototyping, libraries, and developer handoff workflows
- Experience designing for WordPress, WP Engine, or other CMS-driven website environments
- Experience creating and maintaining scalable design systems, component libraries, templates, and reusable interface patterns
- Strong understanding of typography, layout, hierarchy, grids, interaction design, and responsive behavior across screen sizes
- Experience designing complex marketing, corporate, product, or editorial websites with multiple content types and stakeholder needs
- Practical knowledge of front-end implementation, including HTML, CSS, responsive frameworks, CMS constraints, and browser behavior
- Experience collaborating closely with developers and conducting design QA through implementation
- Familiarity with accessibility standards, including WCAG principles, semantic hierarchy, contrast, focus states, and inclusive interaction patterns
- Ability to simplify complex information into clear page structures, navigation systems, and user flows
- Strong communication, presentation, stakeholder-management, and project-management skills
- Ability to balance brand expression, user needs, technical constraints, and business priorities
Preferred qualifications:
Experience designing digital experiences for enterprise SaaS, defense, aerospace, robotics, autonomy, or other complex technology sectors
Familiarity with front-end frameworks and development workflows, including component-based architectures and design-to-code handoff
Experience working with design tokens and systemized theming across design and engineering teams
Experience developing motion and interaction concepts for the web using tools such as After Effects, Lottie, GSAP, Principle, ProtoPie, or Figma prototypes
Experience with data visualization, technical diagrams, product interfaces, or interactive storytelling
Experience designing localized or region-specific web experiences
Familiarity with analytics, experimentation, conversion-oriented design, and iterative optimization
Experience establishing design operations, governance models, or contribution workflows for shared design systems
Skills Required
- 5-8 years of experience in UI, web, or digital product design, including leadership of major website or digital-platform initiatives
- Portfolio demonstrating visual design, interface design, responsive web design, and design-system thinking
- Advanced proficiency in Figma, including components, variants, auto layout, variables, prototyping, libraries, and developer handoff workflows
- Experience designing for WordPress, WP Engine, or other CMS-driven website environments
- Experience creating and maintaining scalable design systems, component libraries, templates, and reusable interface patterns
- Strong understanding of typography, layout, hierarchy, grids, interaction design, and responsive behavior
- Experience designing complex marketing, corporate, product, or editorial websites
- Practical knowledge of front-end implementation, including HTML, CSS, responsive frameworks, CMS constraints, and browser behavior
- Experience collaborating with developers and conducting design QA through implementation
- Familiarity with accessibility standards, including WCAG principles, semantic hierarchy, contrast, focus states, and inclusive interaction patterns
- Ability to simplify complex information into clear page structures, navigation systems, and user flows
- Strong communication, presentation, stakeholder-management, and project-management skills
- Ability to balance brand expression, user needs, technical constraints, and business priorities
- Experience designing digital experiences for enterprise SaaS, defense, aerospace, robotics, autonomy, or complex technology sectors
- Familiarity with front-end frameworks, component-based architectures, and design-to-code handoff
- Experience working with design tokens and systemized theming across design and engineering teams
- Experience developing web motion and interaction concepts using After Effects, Lottie, GSAP, Principle, ProtoPie, or Figma prototypes
- Experience with data visualization, technical diagrams, product interfaces, or interactive storytelling
- Experience designing localized or region-specific web experiences
- Familiarity with analytics, experimentation, conversion-oriented design, and iterative optimization
- Experience establishing design operations, governance models, or contribution workflows for shared design systems
What the Team is Saying
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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