Senior Staff Designer (R5944)

Lever, Inc.; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Designer to lead the development and execution of integrated brand campaigns across digital, social, events, presentations, and advertising. You’ll translate campaign strategy and creative direction into distinctive visual concepts and cohesive systems that are unmistakably on brand.

In this senior individual contributor role, you’ll move from early concept through production, set visual direction, review work, and collaborate with writers, designers, video teams,

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional design experience with integrated brand campaigns.
• Expert typography, composition, color, imagery, and art direction.
• Translate campaign strategy and briefs into distinctive concepts.
• Campaigns across digital, social, advertising, events, and print.
• Move from concept through final production with ease.
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and execution of integrated brand campaigns.
• Translate strategy into distinctive visual systems across touchpoints.
• Provide direction and feedback to designers, agencies, and partners.
• Collaborate with writers, designers, video teams, marketers, and external partners.
• Deliver polished work under demanding timelines and maintain brand cohesion.

Skills

Brand design

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Concept development

Presentation skills

Team mentorship

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Photoshop

Figma

InDesign

Job description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BATaircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

Job Description:

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-facings creative work.

$117,000 - $170,000 a year

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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 toequal 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.