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Senior UI Designer
Slingshot Aerospace • United States of America 🇺🇸
The Senior UI Designer is responsible for elevating the visual quality and consistency of digital product interfaces. This role involves designing high-quality UI, contributing to the design system, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- 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).
Key Skills
- UI/visual design
- Figma
- Cross-functional team collaboration
- Accessibility standards (WCAG)
- Internationalization practices
- Designing for technical, data-heavy, or 3D spatial tools
- Frontend development concepts and handoff workflows
- Motion/interaction design
About Slingshot Aerospace
Slingshot Aerospace provides satellite tracking, space traffic coordination, and space modeling and simulation solutions to government and commercial customers around the world. Using mission-critical data, insights, and applications powered by the Slingshot Platform, space operators improve spaceflight safety and optimize their orbital operations. Slingshot’s platform combines data from the Slingshot Global Sensor Network, the Slingshot Seradata satellite and launch database, satellite owner-operators, and other third-party space data providers, to create the most up-to-date representation of space on the market today. This common operating picture of space activities, past, present, and predicted, empowers the world’s leading space operators to better understand what is happening in space and plan their operations. Slingshot is driven by its mission to make space more safe, sustainable, and secure for all. The company was launched in 2017 and has locations in California, Colorado, an
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