Senior Product Manager, Accessibility

Box is the market leader for Cloud Content Management. Our mission is to power how the world works together. Box is partnering with enterprise organizations to accelerate their digital transformation by creating a single platform for secure content management, collaboration and workflow. We have an amazing opportunity to further establish ourselves as leaders in the space, and we need strong advocates to help us achieve that goal.

By joining Box, you will have the unique opportunity to help capture a majority of this developing market and define what content management looks like for the digital enterprise. Today, Box powers over 100,000 businesses, including 67% of the Fortune 500 who trust Box to manage their content in the cloud.
WHY BOX NEEDS YOU

We have a really big vision — and to ensure we can empower everyone to access this vision and achieve amazing things through collaboration with their peers and partners — we need to make sure that all of our existing and new product experiences can continue to be used by anyone, from anywhere, using any device.

We are looking for a passionate leader to focus on our drive for digital inclusion. You will help us in leading all of our accessibility projects, reviewing and creating requirements for WCAG conformance across all our apps and end-user experiences. Additionally you will be our in-house expert in all things accessibility and will looked upon to educate and enable product owners, developers, designers, and our go-to-market teams on we embed accessibility into the foundation of how we build our product experiences.
WHAT YOU’LL DO

Lead, create, and define the Box Accessibility standards and pathways for all end-user facing products

Partner with Product, Engineering, and Design teams, ensuring we deliver product experiences that meet or exceed WCAG accessibility standards

Be the primary leader and process manager with 3rd party organizations that audit our products for accessibility standards

Drive the evolution of our existing training materials and develop new techniques and materials to drive accessibility across multiple teams

Partner with our Go to Market teams to review accessibility status and progress with our customers

Evaluate existing patterns across Box to implement enhancements to how digital accessibility is managed

Align with stakeholders, and senior leaders to keep them informed on progress against our accessibility goals

Partner across product management and front-end teams during planning to ensure that new/updated product releases meet accessibility standards

Be a champion, mentor, and subject matter expert for Product Team members when seeking answers, direction, or advice on how to create Accessibly compliant products & services

Provide updates and present to senior leadership regularly

WHO YOU ARE

5+ years in product or program management, with at least 2 years focused on accessibility standards

Experience leading strategic product initiatives, influencing and aligning stakeholders to a strategic vision and execution plan

Excel at both high-level strategy development and detailed execution: you are confident giving a presentation to the CEO and running a meeting with engineers, operations, and marketing

Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, team-oriented, and cross-functional environment

Demonstrable commitment to accessibility and disability inclusion

Experience with accessibility product/program management and deep knowledge in accessibility standards i.e. WCAG, ARIA, EN 301 549 (EU), etc.

Experience understanding assistive technologies such as screen readers, magnification software, switch control devices, etc.

Remote friendly!

BENEFITS

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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, and any other protected ground of discrimination under applicable human rights legislation. Box strives to respect the dignity and ‎‎independence of people with disabilities and is committed to giving them the same ‎‎opportunity to succeed as all other employees. Accommodations are available ‎throughout ‎the application process and an employee’s employment at Box.
HEALTH AND SAFETY

To promote the health and safety of all Boxers and our communities, in order to "Go to Work" at Box in the U.S., you must be Fully Vaccinated or have an approved accommodation. "Go(ing) to Work" at Box is defined as visiting a Box office, facility, or co-working site, visiting or meeting in person with fellow Boxers, Box clients and/or customers, vendors, or partners, engaging in business travel, and or participating in any Box-sponsored and/or related activity where others are present. If you are fully remote and do not "Go to Work,” the vaccination requirement is not applicable. "Fully Vaccinated" means that an individual is at least two weeks past their final dose of an authorized COVID-19 vaccine regimen. If you are unable to get a vaccine due to a medical condition, a sincerely-held religious belief or another legally recognized reason, Box will consider requests for an accommodation.

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