Shield AIStaff UI Designer (R6055)
Shield AI is hiring a Staff UI Designer (R6055) in San Diego, United States. It pays $117k-$170k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Shield AI.
Level's read on this job
- Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this role: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting mentions Figma, ui design and visual design among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- Shield AI has 659 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Lead UI design for the company website, creating scalable design systems and intuitive digital experiences for defense-tech products.
Job Description:
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
Full-time regular employee offer package: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment) Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information. ### Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
How we rate this
Staff UI Designer (R6055) at Shield AI rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
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