Accessibility Product Manager

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Job Description

About The Team

The Digital Accessibility team at Workday drives the strategy for Workday’s products to enable everyone to access, easily use and obtain equal value from their experience. As an accessibility team, we care deeply about equitable user experience. Our product managers and subject matter experts help define the UI Platform strategy and work directly with development teams to deliver accessible functionality that will be used across the Workday application suite. We are involved in all aspects of the development lifecycle, from definition to delivery and future iterations. We design great new accessible features to delight our customers and evangelize the enhancements to both internal and external stakeholders.

About The Role:

We’re looking for an expert in the area of web and native application accessibility to help deliver a Workday for users of all abilities.

Drive accessibility features, requirements and guidelines in conjunction with the rest of the accessibility team as well as design and development stakeholders.

Write specs, user stories, prototypes, and checklists. Prioritize work, manage backlog and keep the team on critical path.

Review existing Workday user experiences, provide feedback on making them more compatible with assistive technologies, and lend design and technical expertise to the project teams

Represent accessibility to customer, partner and prospect relationships

Research the accessible user experience working in conjunction with our design researchers through user studies.

About You:

Passionate: about working with designers, engineers and customers to build accessible user experiences

Experienced: 3+ years working on consumer or enterprise UI solving complicated accessibility challenges.

Knowledgeable: detailed knowledge Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 and the implementation of accessible solutions.

Inspiring: drive accessibility efforts through different disciplines, such as design, engineering and support

Articulate: experienced presenting to customers, partners, prospects and the market