Senior UI Designer: Web Systems & Brand Experience

Shield

San Diego (CA)

On-site

USD 117,000 - 170,000

Full time

4 hours ago
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Shield AI seeks a Senior UI Designer to lead the website’s design evolution, from strategy to high-fidelity execution, establishing scalable systems for corporate, product, campaign, and editorial content.

You will partner with brand, marketing, product, and development to translate autonomy and defense tech into intuitive web experiences, balancing brand and user needs with technical constraints.

Qualifications

  • 5–8 years of UI, web, or digital product design experience, with leadership on major website initiatives
  • Portfolio showing strong visual design, interface design, responsive web, and design-system thinking
  • Advanced proficiency in Figma with components, variants, auto layout, variables, prototyping, and handoff to developers
  • Experience designing for CMS-driven websites (WordPress, WP Engine, etc.)
  • Experience maintaining scalable design systems, component libraries, templates, and reusable interface patterns
  • Strong 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
  • Knowledge of front-end implementation including HTML, CSS, responsive frameworks, CMS constraints, and browser behavior
  • Experience collaborating with developers and conducting design QA
  • Familiarity with WCAG accessibility standards and inclusive interaction patterns
  • Ability to simplify complex information into clear page structures, navigation, and user flows
  • Strong communication and project-management skills
  • Ability to balance brand expression, user needs, technical constraints, and business priorities

Responsibilities

  • 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

Skills

UI design
Web design
Design systems
Figma
CMS-driven sites
Accessibility
Developer collaboration

Tools

WordPress/WP Engine

Job description

Shield AI seeks a Senior UI Designer to lead the website’s design evolution, from strategy to high-fidelity execution, establishing scalable systems for corporate, product, campaign, and editorial content.

You will partner with brand, marketing, product, and development to translate autonomy and defense tech into intuitive web experiences, balancing brand and user needs with technical constraints.

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