Sr. Accessibility Specialist, AWS Accessibility

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. At AWS, our vision is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. That means making our cloud computing accessible to everyone.

Do you want to accelerate how thousands of builders deliver accessible experiences at-scale? The AWS Accessibility organization is looking for a Sr. Accessibility Specialist to help us deliver born accessible customer experiences and revolutionize the way that service teams build with accessibility in mind.

The right candidate will have a background with driving accessibility in a complex, cross-functional environment. You will have deep expertise related to accessibility standards and innovation. This role requires strong judgment, the ability to earn trust with your stakeholders, and the ability to distill guidance to a variety of stakeholders across multiple levels at AWS.

Key job responsibilities

As a Sr.

Accessibility Specialist, you will:

- Serve as an accessibility subject matter expert (SME) across 200+ AWS services, our design systems, web experiences, and mobile experiences

- Innovate solutions using AI and other techniques to continuously improve the way that AWS addresses accessibility at-scale

- Prototype accessibility solutions for complex challenges

- Conduct accessibility reviews and provide service teams with actionable guidance, including usability considerations to improve the customer experience.

- Collaborate across organizations to scale our accessibility processes, tooling, and features

- Influence stakeholders across AWS, communicate changes, issues, and resolutions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders

- Establish enterprise-wide technical excellence by driving accessibility standards and requirements into tooling that drives the AWS software development lifecycle

About the team

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.