Manager - Accessibility Lead

At Apple, we believe that technology is most powerful when it empowers everyone. Great ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Do you want to work somewhere that holds accessibility as a core value?

Apple’s IS&T Accessibility Center for Excellence (CoE) team is a group created with the purpose of promoting and supporting accessibility globally across Apple, partnering to embed accessibility into customer and employee facing digital services, apps and websites. We have an exciting opportunity for a talented technical and inclusive leader on our CoE team. This role requires self-drive, attention to detail, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and someone comfortable with being hands-on where required in a high paced environment.
Description
As an Accessibility Lead and Manager on the team, this role requires:
- Leading a focus area of accessibility work driving execution, governance and continuous improvement.
- Understanding the landscape of projects in the focus area by working and building relationships with key stakeholders in cross-functional teams.
- A proven track record with managing, motivating and providing technical and expert guidance to a team of accessibility engineers.
- Reviewing and advising on design, code and content for accessibility whilst partnering to influence engineering teams across the world.
- Experience of technical accessibility and accessibility standards to drive remediation efforts and technical methodologies for accessibility testing.
- Ability to develop scalable accessibility processes, tooling, training and strategic programs.
Minimum Qualifications

10+ years of Software Engineering experience, including over 3 years of experience in leading front-end engineering teams
Demonstrable experience in hiring, mentoring and managing the performance of staff
Strong experience in front-end engineering or designing and developing applications in Web, iOS or macOS
Understanding of WCAG 2.x guidelines and Apple Human Interface Guidelines
Knowledge of accessibility features built into Apple products and other assistive technologies
Ability to communicate and influence senior executives and stakeholders using excellent negotiation skills
Ability to make hard calls when dealing with complexity, conflicting priorities and aggressive schedules
A passion for new technologies and continuous learning

Preferred Qualifications

Proficiency in web application development using web technologies, including front-end frameworks and accessible implementations
Communicate quickly and effectively; vertically and horizontally throughout the organization
Result-oriented and demonstrates the high degree of ownership and accountability
Promotes a team environment that values, supports and encourages differences