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This role is responsible for shaping how information, interactions, content, and underlying systems come together to create clear, usable, and trustworthy digital services.\nAs a UX Strategist at Blenderbox, you will work across multiple client projects-often in government, education, and other regulated environments-partnering closely with project managers, designers, and engineers to translate requirements into cohesive UX and content strategies that are grounded in real technical constraints.\nThis is a strategy-led, project-based full-time role within our agency practice. It is not a UI-first design role and is not tied to a single product.\nWhat You’ll Do\nLead stakeholder research, discovery interviews, and requirements gathering to inform UX and experience strategy\n\nSynthesize user needs, business goals, policy constraints, and technical considerations into clear experience direction\n\nDefine experience principles, success criteria, and structural approaches for digital products and services\n\nDevelop and own UX artifacts including personas, user journeys, service blueprints, workflows, and information architecture\n\nDefine content strategy as part of the overall UX approach, focusing on content structure, hierarchy, sequencing, and clarity\n\nCreate and document content models that support scalable, reusable, and accessible user experiences\n\nDefine UX and content strategies that account for underlying data models, CMS structures, system integrations, and technical constraints\n\nShape UX strategy for CMS-backed and data-driven digital systems, including public-facing experiences and supporting administrative or operational interfaces\n\nCollaborate with UX/UI Product Designers to ensure design systems and component patterns align with experience strategy, content models, and system requirements\n\nReview and guide design work to ensure usability, accessibility, and alignment with requirements and constraints\n\nCollaborate with engineers and technical leads to ensure UX and content strategies are feasible and well-integrated into technical solutions\n\nParticipate in client workshops and presentations, clearly communicating experience decisions, tradeoffs, and rationale\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nSignificant experience (typically 8+ years) in UX strategy, experience design, or a related discipline\n\nA portfolio or body of work demonstrating experience strategy, systems thinking, and UX decision-making (not just visual design)\n\nStrong experience conducting stakeholder research and synthesizing qualitative inputs into actionable strategy\n\nDemonstrated ability to define information architecture and content models for complex systems\n\nExperience shaping UX strategy for CMS-backed and data-driven digital systems, including administrative or operational interfaces\n\nWorking knowledge of how content models, data structures, roles, permissions, and system constraints influence user experience\n\nComfort collaborating across UX, design, and technical domains\n\nStrong communication skills, including presenting strategy to non-design stakeholders\n\nFamiliarity with accessibility standards and inclusive design practices\n\nExperience working in government, education, healthcare, or other regulated environments is a plus\n\nHow You Work\nYou are comfortable with ambiguity and skilled at bringing structure to complexity\n\nYou think in systems, not just screens or features\n\nYou see content and data as core components of user experience\n\nYou balance ideal user experiences with real-world policy and technical constraints\n\nYou collaborate generously and communicate clearly across disciplines\n\nYou approach UX as a strategic practice, not just a design output\n\nTools & Practices\nExperience creating UX and content strategy artifacts (journeys, IA, content models, conceptual frameworks)\n\nFamiliarity with CMS platforms and how content and data structures are implemented in digital products\n\nComfort working within iterative, project-based delivery environments\n\nAbility to engage meaningfully in technical conversations without writing code\n\nCompensation & Benefits\nThe salary range for this role is $115,000-$150,000, depending on experience and alignment with the responsibilities described above. 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