Senior UI Designer, Slingshot Aerospace

• We’re looking for someone who combines strong visual design craft with systems thinking and thrives in a distributed team environment
• The core competencies we will be looking to identify include: intellectual agility, ability to develop innovative solutions, leadership, performance-orientation, and industry expertise
• 4–6+ years of professional UI/visual design experience in product teams. Strong portfolio showcasing visually excellent, accessible, and system-based interface design across platforms
• Advanced proficiency with Figma, including component libraries, variants, auto-layout, and documentation workflows
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and communicating clearly across disciplines
• Availability for partial U.S. timezone overlap (~3–4 hours/day)
• These skills are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to meet every qualification listed- if your skills are transferable and you meet the minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply

Desirable

• The Senior UI Designer is a systems-minded individual contributor responsible for elevating the visual quality, scalability, and consistency of Slingshot’s digital product interfaces
• This role focuses on owning and evolving the user interface layer—crafting accessible, responsive, and elegant UI designs through close collaboration with product designers, engineers, and cross-functional teams
• Senior UI Designers are expected to lead component-driven interface design, contribute meaningfully to our design system, and uphold visual excellence across complex products—ranging from space mission platforms and data dashboards to 3D applications
• This role will own the UI and visual design of our marketing website, ensure visual consistency across product experiences, and actively support the evolution of our product design system
• Design high-quality, production-ready marketing web user interface with strong layout, typography, color, spacing, and visual hierarchy
• Translate product wireframes and marketing requirements into responsive, component-based UI mockups and prototypes
• Partner with Product Designers and Marketing to bring interaction concepts to life with visual clarity, usability, and consistency
• Create presentation assets and artifacts for leadership to leverage for external facing efforts (e.g. slide decks, video animations etc.)
• Contribute to accessibility and responsiveness standards across web-based and multi-device platforms
• Help maintain and evolve Slingshot’s global design system in Figma—including tokens, components, documentation, and patterns
• Collaborate with frontend developers to ensure implementation of UI components is consistent, scalable, and accessible
• Document and communicate visual standards for the design system, promoting reuse, alignment, and shared ownership
• Work closely with Product Designers, engineers, product managers, researchers and Marketing to align interface design with product intent and technical feasibility
• Participate in design critiques, implementation reviews, and QA to ensure strong visual execution from concept to code
• Contribute to visual design culture by mentoring peers, sharing insights, and helping define scalable practices for UI quality