Blink is the user experience firm for the world’s leading companies. We use evidence-driven design to create products that people use, love, and remember. With studios in Austin, Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle, Blink brings two decades of experience to research, design, and strategy for clients such as Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, NASA, Starbucks, and USAA.
We seek an embedded Sr. UX design talent to work with a key client.
100% remote work.
6 month contract role.
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategy and direction for the design system and the design excellence at-scale.
- Drive alignment with cross-discipline partners (e.g., Engineering, Program Managers, and Research) and stakeholders to help shape the definitions and strategies of the design system.
- Identify opportunities for new design system operations, features, and tooling to help the System team have greater impact.
- Lead the team in delivering user experience specifics and guidelines for Google Cloud Design System standards.
- Identify and establish partnerships with key Google Cloud Design System partners (e.g., the UX designers,
- Engineers, Researchers, and Program Managers on Product teams) to define and deliver the experiences for Google Cloud customers
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Design, User Experience, Human-Computer Interaction, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience as a UX Designer or similar role.
- Experience collaborating with Designers, Researchers, Engineers, Content Strategists, and Marketing Managers throughout the design process
- Designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma, InVision or similar.
- Experience with a range of qualitative and quantitative user research methodologies.
- Understanding of front-end technologies (HTML/CSS/JS) to help inform design and interaction decisions
- A portfolio highlighting multiple projects that demonstrate experiences crafting usable digital interfaces.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Atomic design methodology, and systems for reuse across platforms such as AEM
- Ability to communicate concepts across different audiences and varying levels of the organization to
- influence product design strategy
- Outstanding conceptual, visual and interaction design skills with a track record of designing and shipping
- successful online experiences Excellent analytical, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
Blink is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, veteran status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status or disability.