Product Designer, Accessibility

Jobtailor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior accessibility leader to define strategy and oversee governance, ensuring accessible products across the customer journey. The role partners with design, engineering, research, product, and legal to embed accessibility into every layer of development.

You will run audits, establish standards for screen readers and keyboard interactions, and mentor teams to build inclusive experiences.

Qualifications

• Experience leading accessibility or inclusive-design work across multiple teams, products, or platforms.
• Deep expertise with WCAG, assistive technologies, and platform-specific standards.
• Experience embedding accessibility into design systems, reusable components, and engineering workflows.
• Experience working with disabled people and translating experiences into product decisions.
• Ability to set strategy and collaborate with engineers through implementation.
• Ability to influence across disciplines without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Define accessibility strategy, roadmap, governance, priorities, and progress measures.
• Design and ship accessible experiences while addressing systemic barriers across journeys.
• Integrate accessibility into the design system with inclusive components and guardrails.
• Lead usability studies and assistive-technology testing with disabled users.
• Partner with product, legal, and compliance on enterprise readiness and documentation.
• Grow accessibility capability through training and a network of champions.

Skills

Accessibility leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

WCAG expertise

Inclusive design

Design system integration

Tools

Figma

Design Libraries

Engineering Workflows

Job description

• 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 the 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 across perception, navigation, comprehension, and task completion
• Establish 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
• Work across design, engineering, research, product, go-to-market, and legal to make accessibility part of product quality

Requirements

• Experience leading accessibility or inclusive-design work across multiple teams, products, or platforms
• Deep accessibility expertise combined with strong interaction design, systems thinking, and a high bar for product craft
• Deep practical knowledge of WCAG, assistive technologies, accessible interaction design, and platform-specific standards
• Experience embedding accessibility into design systems, reusable components, and engineering workflows
• Experience working directly with disabled people and translating their experiences into product and organizational decisions
• Ability to identify assumptions and exclusion within a product journey and turn insights into clearer, more flexible interactions
• Ability to set strategy, design detailed experiences, and collaborate with engineers through implementation
• Ability to influence across disciplines without direct authority
• Authorization to work in the country where the job is located is required by the application form
• Ability to work from the US office three days per week is required by the application form

Core Competencies

Demonstrates deep accessibility expertise and strong interaction design skills, with a focus on embedding accessibility into design systems and ensuring inclusive experiences across diverse user needs. Capable of leading cross-functional teams to implement accessibility strategies and standards effectively.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Accessibility Strategy Development
• WCAG Compliance Knowledge
• Inclusive Design Expertise
• Assistive Technology Testing
• Cross-Functional Collaboration

Hard Skills

• Accessibility Audits
• Interaction Design
• Systems Thinking
• Design System Integration
• Usability Studies
• Assistive Technology Knowledge
• Screen Reader Standards
• Keyboard Navigation Standards
• Multimodal Interaction Design
• Accessibility Documentation

Soft Skills

• Influencing Without Authority
• Collaborative Problem Solving
• Training and Mentorship

Industry Keywords

• Accessibility Governance
• Customer Journey Analysis
• Product Quality Standards
• Enterprise Readiness
• Compliance Standards

Tools & Technologies

• Figma
• Design Libraries
• Engineering Workflows