Senior UX Accessibility Lead

verily; San Bruno (CA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

Verily Health is seeking a Senior UX Accessibility Lead to embed within our UX organization to shape inclusive, accessible precision health experiences across web, mobile, and AI-native products.

Reporting into UX and partnering closely with Engineering, Product, and AI/ML, you will define accessibility standards, champion inclusive design, and ensure our AI-powered solutions go beyond compliance toward intuitive usability for people with disabilities.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in product UX, accessibility, or related field.
• Deep expertise in accessible interaction design and WCAG AA.
• Experience designing or evaluating AI-powered or AI-native experiences.
• Strong ability to test with assistive technologies and involve people with disabilities.
• Experience scaling accessibility across large product organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead accessibility strategy across the UX organization by embedding inclusive design principles, interaction patterns, and standards early in discovery, concepting, and design critiques.
• Define inclusive AI interaction patterns and evaluation frameworks for conversational, multimodal, and agentic experiences to ensure user control, transparency, and error recovery.
• Partner with UX Research to establish inclusive research practices, validating design solutions directly with assistive technology users and people with disabilities.
• Establish component accessibility standards, annotations, and documentation within the design system to ensure seamless, compliant engineering handoffs.
• Educate and mentor cross-functional teams through playbooks and training to elevate organizational accessibility maturity across product lifecycles.

Skills

Accessibility design

WCAG AA

UX research

AI-powered UX

Inclusive design

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Who We Are

Verily Health is a data platform and technology company purpose-built to power AI-enabled precision health solutions that accelerate research and improve care for individuals and communities. Uniquely positioned at the intersection of technology, data science, and healthcare, Verily transforms multimodal health data into insights, models, and actions that make healthcare more personalized, predictive, and precise.

Description

We are seeking a Senior UX Accessibility Lead to embed within our UX organization to shape inclusive, accessible precision health experiences across web, mobile, and AI-native products. Reporting into UX and partnering closely with Engineering, Product, and AI/ML, you will define accessibility standards, champion inclusive design, and ensure our AI-powered solutions go beyond compliance toward intuitive usability for people with disabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead accessibility strategy across the UX organization by embedding inclusive design principles, interaction patterns, and standards early in discovery, concepting, and design critiques.
• Define inclusive AI interaction patterns and evaluation frameworks for conversational, multimodal, and agentic experiences to ensure user control, transparency, and error recovery.
• Partner with UX Research to establish inclusive research practices, validating design solutions directly with assistive technology users and people with disabilities.
• Establish component accessibility standards, annotations, and documentation within the design system to ensure seamless, compliant engineering handoffs.
• Educate and mentor cross-functional teams through playbooks and training to elevate organizational accessibility maturity across product lifecycles.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications
• 5+ years of experience in product design, interaction design, UX research, accessibility, or a related discipline with a Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
• Deep expertise in accessible interaction design and WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA , including screen readers, keyboard/focus behavior, semantic structure, assistive technologies, and cognitive accessibility.
• Ability to design and evaluate accessible AI-powered experiences , including conversational, voice, multimodal, agentic, and dynamically generated interfaces-with strong judgment around transparency, user control, correction, recovery, and potential exclusion.
• Strong accessibility evaluation and inclusive usability research skills , combining expert review, assistive technology testing, automated testing, usability research, and meaningful participation of people with disabilities.
• Ability to scale accessibility across products and organizations through design systems, reusable patterns, standards, tooling, and cross-functional influence from discovery through launch.
• Preferred Qualifications
• 5+ years of experience in product design, interaction design, UX research, accessibility, or a related discipline.
• Experience designing or evaluating AI-powered or AI-native experiences , particularly conversational UX, voice, multimodal interfaces, or AI agents.
• Experience developing accessibility frameworks, benchmarks, quality standards, or reusable patterns for AI-enabled products.
• Hands-on experience with assistive technologies and conducting research with people with disabilities.
• Experience scaling accessibility in large or complex product organizations , including partnership across AI/ML, Product, Engineering, Research, and Design Systems.

Qualified applicants must not require employer sponsored work authorization now or in the future for employment in the United States.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $115,500-$173,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

Verily Health Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.