Senior UI Designer (UK)

What You'll Do

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. We're looking for someone who combines strong visual design craft with systems thinking and thrives in a distributed team environment. 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.

Slingshot Aerospace cares deeply about our commitment to company values, mission, and purpose. The core competencies we will be looking to identify include : intellectual agility, ability to develop innovative solutions, leadership, performance-orientation, and industry expertise.

Responsibilities

Interface Design & Visual Systems

• 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.

Design System Contribution

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Pre-Requisites

Minimum Requirements

Preferred Skills

Location : Remote, UK Preferred (Open to offshore talent in EU time zones)

Classification : Full-Time Exempt (professional exemption)

Compensation Range : 65,000 - 85,000 (GBP)

US-based Candidates : we are currently only able to hire residents of the following U.S. states : AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KS, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NV, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OR, RI, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, and WI. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other U.S. states at this time.

Internationally-based Candidates : we are currently only able to hire residents of the following locations : United Kingdom. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other countries at this time.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share a passion for creating a safer, more connected world. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also national origin, citizenship, sex, color, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic that is part of one's identity. All of our employees' points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.