<div class="section page-centered" style="font-size: 16px; max-width: 760px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 20px 0px; position: relative; caret-color: rgb(81, 83, 87); color: rgb(81, 83, 87); font-family: Lato;"><div class="section page-centered" style="max-width: 760px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 20px 0px; position: relative;"><div>Blink is a UX research and design firm that works with great companies to create meaningful digital products, brands, and experiences. With studios in Seattle, San Diego, San Francisco, Boston, and Austin, Blink brings two decades of experience using our evidence-driven design process to projects for clients such as Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, and NASA.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Blink is looking for talented and experienced Freelance Design Technologists that can be available as a resource for client/project-based needs.&nbsp;Design Technologists serve as a bridge between design and engineering - facilitating efficient collaboration and ensuring that nothing is lost in translation. They have an expertise that combines traits of a great designer and a great engineer. They have advanced knowledge of front-end technologies, but also a strong basis in UX, visual, and motion design. They bring an engineer’s pattern thinking to systematizing designs and a designer’s eye for fit and finish and empathy for a user’s needs.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Here is a bit more information about what it means to partner with Blink as a Freelance Design Technologist:&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>•<span style="font-size: 7pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>We work with Freelancers on a project-to-project basis. Projects at Blink usually range from 1-4 months in length. Opportunities can be both full-time or part-time depending on the project.</div><div>•<span style="font-size: 7pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>We love working with Freelancers long-term, but work opportunities can come and go throughout a year. This type of partnership isn’t a great fit for a lot of people who prefer more full-time, permanent work.&nbsp;</div><div>•<span style="font-size: 7pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Freelancers are typically 1099 independent contractors, paid an hourly rate for a specified amount of hours for a client project.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>While we may not have a need now - that could change next week! Feel free to submit your information to us via this application and we'll keep you in mind as opportunities arise.&nbsp;</div></div><div class="section page-centered" style="max-width: 760px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 20px 0px; position: relative;"><h3 style="font-weight: 700; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: Lato; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(81, 83, 87); margin: 17.5px 0px; padding: 0px;">Job Responsibilities</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list" style="margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding: 0px;"><ul style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 17px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc;">Take the initial steps to transition from design to solution, maintaining integrity of design whilst laying out in web front-end tech whilst following best practices that enable readable and maintainable code.</li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 17px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc;">Explore new design technology processes and methods and ensures great design implementation.&nbsp;</li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 17px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc;">Explore multiple solutions to front-end challenges.</li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 17px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc;">Collaborate with design team to implement design intent that is not captured within design deliverables.</li></ul></ul></div><div class="section page-centered" style="max-width: 760px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 20px 0px; position: relative;"><h3 style="font-weight: 700; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: Lato; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(81, 83, 87); margin: 17.5px 0px; padding: 0px;">Job Qualifications</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list" style="margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding: 0px;"><ul style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 17px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc;">At least 3 years of experience working in the UX Design or Front-end Engineering role, preferably in a role acting as a liaison for design and engineering.</li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 17px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc;">Collaborative spirit in all facets of the role. Design Technologists are technological collaborators.</li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 17px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc;">Consulting experience preferable.</li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 17px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc;">Expert knowledge in laying out designs in web technologies to match design compositions and intent, including visual and motion design.</li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 17px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc;">Solid understanding of the user centered design process.</li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 17px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc;">Understanding of the pros and cons of different solutions to front-end challenges.</li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 17px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc;">Solid communication skills, able to articulate design and engineering concepts to clients and across teams.</li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 17px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc;">Understanding design intent and ability to advise on technical opportunities and constraints in implementation.</li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 17px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc;">Ability to accurately translate design to code with limited direction.</li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 17px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc;">Ability to work within modern JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, &amp; Vue.&nbsp;</li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 17px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc;">Toolkit includes competency or familiarity with: Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, InVision, Zeplin, VS Code.</li><li style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 17px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: disc;">Technologies and systems used include HTML5, CSS3, Sass, BEM, CSS3 Animation, presentational JavaScript, WebGL, SVG, cross-browser testing (including IE11), browser debugging tools.</li></ul></ul></div><div class="section page-centered" style="max-width: 760px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 20px 0px; position: relative;">Blink is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, veteran status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status or disability.</div></div>

Blink is a UX research and design firm that works with great companies to
create meaningful digital products, brands, and experiences. With studios in
Seattle, San Diego, San Francisco, Boston, and Austin, Blink brings two
decades of experience using our evidence-driven design process to projects for
clients such as Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, and NASA.



Blink is looking for talented and experienced Freelance Design Technologists
that can be available as a resource for client/project-based needs. Design
Technologists serve as a bridge between design and engineering - facilitating
efficient collaboration and ensuring that nothing is lost in translation. They
have an expertise that combines traits of a great designer and a great
engineer. They have advanced knowledge of front-end technologies, but also a
strong basis in UX, visual, and motion design. They bring an engineer’s
pattern thinking to systematizing designs and a designer’s eye for fit and
finish and empathy for a user’s needs.



Here is a bit more information about what it means to partner with Blink as a
Freelance Design Technologist:



•      We work with Freelancers on a project-to-project basis. Projects at
Blink usually range from 1-4 months in length. Opportunities can be both full-
time or part-time depending on the project.

•      We love working with Freelancers long-term, but work opportunities can
come and go throughout a year. This type of partnership isn’t a great fit for
a lot of people who prefer more full-time, permanent work.

•      Freelancers are typically 1099 independent contractors, paid an hourly
rate for a specified amount of hours for a client project.



While we may not have a need now - that could change next week! Feel free to
submit your information to us via this application and we'll keep you in mind
as opportunities arise.

### Job Responsibilities

    * Take the initial steps to transition from design to solution, maintaining integrity of design whilst laying out in web front-end tech whilst following best practices that enable readable and maintainable code.
    * Explore new design technology processes and methods and ensures great design implementation. 
    * Explore multiple solutions to front-end challenges.
    * Collaborate with design team to implement design intent that is not captured within design deliverables.

### Job Qualifications

    * At least 3 years of experience working in the UX Design or Front-end Engineering role, preferably in a role acting as a liaison for design and engineering.
    * Collaborative spirit in all facets of the role. Design Technologists are technological collaborators.
    * Consulting experience preferable.
    * Expert knowledge in laying out designs in web technologies to match design compositions and intent, including visual and motion design.
    * Solid understanding of the user centered design process.
    * Understanding of the pros and cons of different solutions to front-end challenges.
    * Solid communication skills, able to articulate design and engineering concepts to clients and across teams.
    * Understanding design intent and ability to advise on technical opportunities and constraints in implementation.
    * Ability to accurately translate design to code with limited direction.
    * Ability to work within modern JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, & Vue. 
    * Toolkit includes competency or familiarity with: Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, InVision, Zeplin, VS Code.
    * Technologies and systems used include HTML5, CSS3, Sass, BEM, CSS3 Animation, presentational JavaScript, WebGL, SVG, cross-browser testing (including IE11), browser debugging tools.

Blink is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and do not
discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender,
age, veteran status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status
or disability.

