Senior UI Designer — Web Systems & Design Tokens

Lever, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 117,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI seeks a Senior UI Designer to lead the website’s design evolution and establish scalable systems across corporate, product, campaign, and editorial content. You’ll translate complex autonomy tech into intuitive web experiences, partnering with brand, marketing, product, and development teams to ensure performant, accessible interfaces.

The role requires a strong visual design sense, systems thinking, and hands-on expertise in translating design decisions into high-quality digital

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of UI, web, or digital product design experience with leadership on major website/digital-platform initiatives.
• Portfolio demonstrating strong visual design, UI, responsive web design and design-system thinking.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma: components, variants, auto layout, tokens, prototyping, libraries, and handoff.
• Experience designing for WordPress, WP Engine, or other CMS-driven websites.
• Experience creating and maintaining scalable design systems, component libraries, templates, and reusable patterns.
• Strong typography, layout, hierarchy, grids, and responsive behavior across screen sizes.
• Experience designing complex marketing, corporate, product, or editorial websites with multiple content types.
• Knowledge of front-end implementation (HTML, CSS, responsive frameworks) and CMS constraints.
• Experience collaborating with developers and performing design QA through implementation.
• Familiarity with WCAG accessibility principles and inclusive interaction patterns.
• Ability to simplify complex information into clear page structures and user flows.
• Strong communication, presentation, stakeholder-management, and project-management skills.
• Ability to balance brand, user needs, constraints, and business priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead UI design for Shield AI website across core pages, product experiences, campaigns, and microsites.
• Define visual and interaction standards for desktop, tablet, and mobile.
• Create foundational design systems in Figma with components, tokens, and docs.
• Establish reusable page frameworks and content patterns for scalable web experiences.
• Design high-fidelity interfaces, states, prototypes, and responsive layouts.
• Collaborate with developers for accurate implementation, QA, and launch iteration.
• Partner with brand and content teams to translate complex tech narratives into clear hierarchies and storytelling.
• Improve usability, accessibility, navigation, and overall clarity of the Shield AI web experience.
• Support interactive content, data visualizations, motion concepts, and product storytelling with partners.
• Audit existing experiences for consistency, reuse, accessibility, and visual quality.
• Maintain design documentation, file organization, naming conventions, and scalable workflows.
• Advise stakeholders on UI best practices, responsive design, accessibility, and system decisions.

Skills

UI/UX design

Figma

WordPress CMS

Design systems

HTML/CSS basics

Accessibility (WCAG)

Communications & PM

Tools

After Effects

Lottie

GSAP

Job description

Shield AI seeks a Senior UI Designer to lead the website’s design evolution and establish scalable systems across corporate, product, campaign, and editorial content. You’ll translate complex autonomy tech into intuitive web experiences, partnering with brand, marketing, product, and development teams to ensure performant, accessible interfaces.

The role requires a strong visual design sense, systems thinking, and hands-on expertise in translating design decisions into high-quality digital