
Senior UX Strategist – Contract
Blenderbox, Inc.
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Own experience strategy end-to-end across complex digital projects
- Lead stakeholder research, discovery interviews, and requirements gathering in ambiguous or politically complex environments
- Synthesize user needs, business goals, policy constraints, and technical realities into clear, defensible experience strategy
- Define experience principles, success criteria, and structural approaches that guide design and delivery
- Develop and own UX artifacts including personas, user journeys, service blueprints, workflows, and information architecture
- Define content strategy as part of the overall UX approach, focusing on structure, hierarchy, sequencing, and clarity
- Create and document content models that support scalable, reusable, and accessible user experiences
- Define UX and content strategies that account for underlying data models, CMS structures, system integrations, and technical constraints
- Shape UX strategy for CMS-backed and data-driven digital systems, including public-facing experiences and supporting administrative or operational interfaces
- Collaborate with UX/UI Product Designers to ensure design systems and component patterns align with experience strategy, content models, and system requirements
- Provide strategic guidance and quality oversight throughout design and implementation
- Collaborate with engineers and technical leads to anticipate risks and ensure strategies are feasible and sustainable
- Lead or co-lead client workshops and presentations, clearly communicating recommendations, tradeoffs, and rationale
Requirements
- Significant experience (typically 10+ years) in UX strategy, experience design, or a related discipline
- Demonstrated experience owning UX strategy for complex, CMS-backed and data-driven digital systems
- Strong background in information architecture, content modeling, and system-level UX thinking
- Proven ability to operate independently and lead strategy without close oversight
- Comfort navigating policy-driven, regulated, or enterprise environments
- Strong client-facing communication skills, including facilitating workshops and presenting strategy
- Working knowledge of how content models, data structures, roles, permissions, and system constraints influence user experience
- Familiarity with accessibility standards and inclusive design practices
- Experience working with government, education, or other public-sector clients is strongly preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
- Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
UX strategyexperience designinformation architecturecontent modelinguser journeysservice blueprintsworkflowscontent strategydata modelssystem integrations
Soft Skills
stakeholder researchrequirements gatheringstrategic guidancequality oversightclient-facing communicationfacilitating workshopspresenting strategyindependent operationnavigating policy-driven environmentscollaboration