Accessibility Design Systems Lead

Showcify; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Accessibility lead within Design Foundations to define strategy, governance, and priorities for company-wide accessibility initiatives.

You'll design accessible experiences, build inclusive components in the design system, and center disabled people through participatory research and usability studies, collaborating with design, engineering, research, product, go-to-market, and legal.

Qualifications

• Led accessibility or inclusive-design work across multiple teams, products, or platforms.
• Deep accessibility expertise with interaction design, systems thinking, and product craft.
• Knowledge of WCAG, assistive technologies, accessible interaction design, and platform-specific standards.
• Embedded accessibility into design systems, reusable components, and engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Define OpenAI’s accessibility strategy, roadmap, governance, priorities, and measures of progress.
• Design and ship accessible experiences while identifying systemic barriers across complete customer journeys.
• Build accessibility into our design system through inclusive components, tokens, interaction patterns, Figma libraries, documentation, and engineering guardrails.
• Center disabled people through participatory research, usability studies, and assistive‑technology testing.
• Design for permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities, including multiple ways to perceive information and navigate interfaces.
• Establish practical standards for screen readers, keyboard navigation, focus, reading order, contrast, typography, motion, captions, forms, errors, and multimodal interactions.
• Lead accessibility audits, remediation priorities, launch readiness, and continuous validation across platforms.
• Partner with go‑to‑market, legal, compliance, and product teams on enterprise readiness, accessibility documentation, procurement needs, and customer commitments.
• Grow company-wide capability through training, critiques, engineering partnerships, and a network of accessibility champions.

Skills

Accessibility leadership

Inclusive design

WCAG knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Figma

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Senior Accessibility lead within Design Foundations to define strategy, governance, and priorities for company-wide accessibility initiatives.

You'll design accessible experiences, build inclusive components in the design system, and center disabled people through participatory research and usability studies, collaborating with design, engineering, research, product, go-to-market, and legal.