Staff UI Designer

Join Shield AI as a Senior UI Designer, where you will lead the design evolution of the company website and establish foundational systems to support it. You will create clear, scalable, and cohesive experiences across various content types and collaborate closely with brand, marketing, product, and development teams. Your responsibilities will include defining visual and interaction standards, creating design systems in Figma, designing high-fidelity user interfaces, and improving the overall usability and accessibility of the website.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design evolution of the Shield AI website, establishing foundational systems that support it.
• 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.
• Experience creating and maintaining scalable design systems, component libraries, templates, and reusable interface patterns
• Ability to balance brand expression, user needs, technical constraints, and business priorities
• Experience collaborating closely with developers and conducting design QA through implementation

Requirements

• The ideal candidate brings strong visual design judgment, systems thinking, and a practical understanding of how design decisions translate into performant, accessible digital products
• Experience designing complex marketing, corporate, product, or editorial websites with multiple content types and stakeholder needs
• Experience designing for WordPress, WP Engine, or other CMS-driven website environments
• Ability to simplify complex information into clear page structures, navigation systems, and user flows
• Familiarity with accessibility standards, including WCAG principles, semantic hierarchy, contrast, focus states, and inclusive interaction patterns
• A portfolio demonstrating strong visual design, interface design, responsive web design, and design-system thinking
• Strong understanding of typography, layout, hierarchy, grids, interaction design, and responsive behavior across screen sizes
• 5–8 years of experience in UI, web, or digital product design, with experience leading major website or digital-platform initiatives
• Advanced proficiency in Figma, including components, variants, auto layout, variables, prototyping, libraries, and developer handoff workflows
• Strong communication, presentation, stakeholder-management, and project-management skills
• Practical knowledge of front-end implementation, including HTML, CSS, responsive frameworks, CMS constraints, and browser behavior
• 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
• Experience establishing design operations, governance models, or contribution workflows for shared design systems

Preferred

• Familiarity with analytics, experimentation, conversion-oriented design, and iterative optimization

Pay

USD 117,000 - 204,000