Accessibility Lead Vice President - Component Library

JPMorganChase•Columbus, OH

About The Position

The Accessibility Lead Vice President will provide strategic and technical accessibility leadership throughout the Manhattan Design System (MDS) component-library lifecycle. The role helps ensure accessibility is built into reusable components, composable patterns, documentation, and tools before they are adopted across Chase digital products. It requires deep accessibility expertise, design-system and product-development knowledge, sound judgment, and the ability to lead through influence. The role partners with product, design, engineering, quality assurance, research, standards, content, and other stakeholders to establish how accessibility requirements apply to customer-facing web and native mobile components, interaction patterns, documentation, tooling, and emerging platform capabilities. It translates accessibility standards and human-centered design principles into practical requirements and guidance, and provides support across design, implementation, testing, defect management, research, adoption, and release readiness. The Accessibility Lead will help establish repeatable accessibility practices and governance, advise on complex components and patterns such as data visualizations, interactive widgets, and dynamic content, and support modernization of legacy components and adoption of composable components across web and mobile platforms. The role also coaches accessibility advisors and cross-functional partners, communicates risks and recommendations to technical teams and senior stakeholders, and supports responsible use of approved AI-enabled tools with appropriate validation, transparency, data handling, controls, and human accountability.

Requirements

Seven or more years of experience supporting accessibility across customer-facing digital products, programs, or functions.
Expert knowledge of digital accessibility standards and specifications, including WCAG 2.2, WAI-ARIA, semantic web technologies, and accessibility requirements for native mobile applications.
Demonstrated experience identifying accessibility barriers and recommending practical solutions across complex web or mobile experiences.
Strong understanding of assistive technologies and how customers with disabilities navigate, understand, and operate digital experiences.
Experience advising product, design, engineering, and quality assurance partners throughout the product-development lifecycle.
Experience working with enterprise design systems, component libraries, reusable patterns, or shared platform capabilities.
Ability to translate accessibility requirements into clear design guidance, technical recommendations, user stories, acceptance criteria, documentation, and product decisions.
Experience leading complex technical discussions, resolving ambiguity, and influencing outcomes across teams without direct authority.
Strong understanding of accessibility testing methodologies, defect documentation, severity assessment, prioritization, remediation, and release-readiness practices.
Experience evaluating component behavior, including keyboard interaction, screen-reader output, focus management, dynamic updates, validation, error handling, text scaling, contrast, and responsive layouts.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to evaluate emerging components and interaction patterns for which established guidance may not exist.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex accessibility and technical concepts to senior leaders and nontechnical audiences.
Ability to operate independently, manage competing priorities, adapt to evolving direction, and bring structure to a broad and fast-moving area.

Responsibilities

Serve as a lead Digital Accessibility advisor for the component library across customer-facing web and native mobile components, patterns, documentation, and tools.
Establish and communicate accessibility expectations for reusable components, composable patterns, and platform-specific implementations.
Partner with product, design, engineering, quality assurance, research, standards, content, and other stakeholders to integrate accessibility throughout discovery, design, development, testing, release, adoption, and ongoing improvement.
Provide early accessibility guidance for component concepts, prototypes, design specifications, interaction patterns, technical approaches, and implementation guidance.
Translate accessibility standards and internal requirements into actionable design guidance, technical recommendations, test expectations, acceptance criteria, documentation, and product decisions.
Lead technical discussions and facilitate decisions about complex or emerging accessibility questions where existing standards or patterns do not provide complete implementation guidance.
Evaluate component behavior across assistive technologies, platforms, browsers, device settings, customer contexts, and interaction modes.
Support defect triage and prioritization by assessing customer impact, standards implications, severity, available workarounds, affected versions, downstream product impact, and release readiness.
Identify recurring accessibility risks and use defect, testing, research, adoption, and product-feedback insights to recommend improvements to components, patterns, documentation, and delivery practices.
Establish and maintain scalable accessibility usage guidance, including screen-reader behavior, keyboard interactions, built-in and configurable behaviors, color and contrast requirements, focus management, accessibility rationale, and implementation examples.
Partner with accessibility advisors supporting product teams to clarify whether issues originate in components, product-specific implementation, content, configuration, or the surrounding customer experience.
Provide accessibility leadership for modernization of legacy components and adoption of composable components across web and mobile platforms.
Advise on accessible solutions for complex components and patterns, including data visualizations, interactive widgets, and dynamic content.
Incorporate research findings from people with disabilities into component and pattern guidance and recommend opportunities for inclusive research throughout the design-system lifecycle.
Coach accessibility advisors and cross-functional partners on component-library accessibility considerations to build consistent knowledge and practices across teams.
Communicate accessibility risks, recommendations, tradeoffs, adoption considerations, and progress to technical teams, product leaders, and senior stakeholders.
Stay current on accessibility standards, assistive technologies, platform capabilities, design-system practices, emerging technologies, and relevant industry developments.
Support responsible use of approved AI-enabled tools and component-library capabilities while maintaining appropriate validation, transparency, data handling, controls, and human accountability.