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Blink UX

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2000

Design

Blink UX is a user experience research and design firm that applies evidence-driven design principles to create innovative and memorable products for clients. The company emphasizes the importance of user experience in shaping perception of brands. Its research-led approach helps in crafting superior design solutions, which are not only functional but also aesthetically appealing. Blink UX is known for its work with prestigious clients including NASA, Amazon, Atari, and the New York Times. The company focuses on prototyping and collaborative design processes that align organizations and enhance user experiences.

📋 Description

• Partner with clients to shape and validate technical solutions for content modernization and GenAI enablement • Advise on technology stacks, tradeoffs, and implementation approaches across CMS/DAM, front-end, APIs, and AI services • Translate content strategy and design intent into executable technical plans • Design and build proofs-of-concept demonstrating feasibility, value, and scalability • Implement front-end integrations with headless CMS/DAM platforms • Build or connect GenAI workflows, including LLM and RAG, into content pipelines • Collaborate with client and partner engineering teams on implementation • Integrate AI-assisted authoring, retrieval, and personalization features • Define AI guardrails covering privacy, consent, accessibility, and observability • Design evaluation approaches for AI outputs, including quality, factuality, tone, and accessibility • Ensure WCAG accessibility, Core Web Vitals performance, and scalability • Define testing strategies for content models, front-end rendering, and AI outputs • Support launch readiness through documentation, runbooks, and defect triage • Act as an internal technical advisor and multiplier • Help define future roles and participate in hiring specialized engineers

🎯 Requirements

• Senior-level, hands-on engineering experience; still actively coding • Strong front-end fundamentals in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript • React/Next.js preferred • Experience integrating headless CMS/DAM platforms such as Contentful, AEM Headless, or Sitecore • Practical experience with LLMs, RAG patterns, or AI-driven workflows • Ability to design APIs, data contracts, and front-end/state management patterns • Experience working directly with clients or stakeholders in a consulting or delivery role • Experience embedding AI into content workflows, including authoring, assembly, review, and personalization • Understanding of evaluation metrics for quality, safety, accessibility, and human-in-the-loop review • Familiarity with privacy, compliance, and accessibility considerations for AI systems • Experience with front-end unit, integration, and UI testing and accessibility tooling • Ability to design validation strategies for modular content and AI outputs • Design systems experience, such as Storybook, tokens, or enterprise component libraries, nice to have • Performance optimization experience with SSR/ISR or edge/CDN strategies, nice to have • Internationalization and localization workflow experience, nice to have • Experience with AI observability, cost monitoring, or prompt optimization, nice to have • CMS-integrated AI evaluation or reviewer dashboard experience, nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Clear career paths and opportunities for growth • Inclusive workforce • Salary transparency • Project-based contractor opportunities • Flexible project lengths and potential part-time opportunities