Senior Accessibility Program Manager

GitHub, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 103,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub, Inc. is seeking a Senior Accessibility Program Manager to drive our accessibility strategy across the company and customer base.

You will lead listening systems, build communities of practice, and accelerate adoption of an open-source GitHub accessibility scanner while collaborating with product, engineering, and Open Source teams. You will influence roadmaps, measure performance, and ensure accessibility is embedded in development, with a focus on empowering people with disabilities to

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in CSR, sustainability, accessibility engineering and design, or related area.

Responsibilities

• Empower GitHub employees to do the best work of their lives by creating an accessible work environment and supporting procurement processes.
• Empower developers with disabilities to build on GitHub by involving their input in development and driving accountability at scale.
• Help customers meet accessibility goals by open-sourcing tools and sharing best practices externally.
• Improve accessibility of open source by advancing open-source Assistive Technologies and mainstream projects.

Skills

Accessibility

Engineering

AI & automation

Cross-functional collaboration

Program management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Sustainability, CS, Communications/Marketing, or related field

Master's Degree in Business, Sustainability, CS, Communications/Marketing, or related field

Doctorate in Business, Sustainability, CS, Communications/Marketing, or related field

Equivalent experience

Job description

About GitHub

GitHub is the world's leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

At GitHub, our mission is to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration. We believe people with disabilities should benefit from that progress and directly contribute to the creation of it.

We are seeking a forward-thinking, determined and innovative individual, who is passionate about the intersection of accessibility and technology, to help implement our accessibility strategy, which can be found at accessibility.github.com. This role will report directly to the Head of Accessibility and will be empowered to drive change internally and externally.

The successful candidate will:

• Have a deep understanding of accessibility, assistive technologies, and the ways that people with disabilities interact with technology.
• Have technical expertise that is grounded in professional experience as a software developer or designer.
• Have hands-on experience using AI and automation to improve accessibility at scale.
• Have professional experience managing accessibility initiatives within a large matrixed organization.
• Have a proven track record of delivering results that empower people with disabilities to use technology.

Responsibilities

The goals of the GitHub accessibility program are to:

• Empower GitHub employees to do the best work of their lives by creating an accessible work environment with internal guides and support for procurement processes.
• Empower developers with disabilities to build on GitHub by including their input throughout the development process, cultivating a culture of accessibility within GitHub, and driving accountability at scale.
• Empower our customers to meet their accessibility goals when building on GitHub by aggressively dogfooding the latest GitHub platform and AI features to run our internal accessibility program, Open-sourcing our internal tools when appropriate, and sharing best practices externally.
• Help improve the accessibility of open source by empowering people with disabilities to contribute, improving the availability and adoption of open-source Assistive Technologies, and improving the accessibility of mainstream open-source projects.

The Senior Accessibility Program Manager may contribute to all of those program goals over time. That said, their initial focus will include, but is not limited to:

• Manage listening systems including inclusive user research and feedback processes.
• Build an accessibility community of practice within our Enterprise customer community.
• Grow the capabilities of the open-source GitHub accessibility scanner and accelerate adoption by customers and open-source communities.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), sustainability, accessibility engineering and design, or related area
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Sustainability, Computer Science, Communications/Marketing, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), sustainability, accessibility engineering and design, or related area
  • OR Master's Degree in Business, Sustainability, Computer Science, Communications/Marketing, or related field AND 3+ years experience in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), sustainability, accessibility engineering and design, or related area
  • OR Doctorate in Business, Sustainability, Computer Science, Communications/Marketing, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), sustainability, accessibility engineering and design, or related area
  • OR equivalent experience
• 3+ years of relevant experience driving programs or initiatives across organizational boundaries in a large organization.
• 3+ years of experience evaluating the conformance of web content against the Web Content Accessibility guidelines.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience using AI and automation to improve accessibility at scale.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing accessible web-based user interfaces using JavaScript and modern web technologies.
• Experience collecting and interpreting data for performance metrics and compliance.
• Understanding of product road mapping and experience working with product and engineering teams to embed new features into roadmap plans.

We encourage people with lived experience to apply.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $103,200.00 - USD $273,700.00 /Yr.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world's leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We're also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world's software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.

Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We're remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.

Join us, and let's change the world, together.

EEO Statement

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!