Senior Accessibility Consultant

Target • Minneapolis, MN

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Accessibility Consultant, you’ll embed with teams of developers, designers and product owners responsible for creating world-class accessible experiences for Target Guests and Target Team Members. This includes the creation of entirely new experiences, as well as improvement to existing ones. You will learn and apply our internal accessibility procedures (based on WCAG 2.2) to digital experiences at all phases of web and app development, including discovery, design, engineering, testing and regression as an active participant with our product, technology, and design teams. You will use assistive technologies to test all experiences for accessibility gaps prior to them going live, sometimes collaborating with members of the accessibility team to do so. You will be working on cutting edge digital experiences and will have the opportunity to be a part of crafting the future of accessibility. Your work is critical in driving inclusivity for all Target customers and employees. You’ll bring empathy and knowledge of the lived experience of people with disabilities to every business problem. You’ll participate in guest research and leverage data to inform decisions. You’ll help to define objectives and results with product, design, engineering and business partners. You’ll push work forward with high standards and an approach that follows the voice of the customer. You’ll constructively challenge current thinking across the company, pushing boundaries and driving change that will deliver exceptional user-centric accessible experiences. You’re a storyteller by nature, and you thrive on building relationships. You’re a proactive agent of change with a bias toward action. You’re skilled at influencing partners and working in a matrixed environment. You’ll be the master of your own destiny in an environment that has strong support for work-life balance. We’ll support you along the way with robust onboarding, as well as personal and career development, to help you grow as a Senior Accessibility Consultant. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Requirements

• Demonstrated success applying WCAG 2.2 AA to create accessible experiences
• Proven ability to successfully lead accessibility efforts throughout all phases of development, within projects and initiatives involving multiple cross-functional teams
• Experience performing accessibility testing of web and app experiences with assistive technology, including keyboards and screen readers
• Able to work well in a large organization with many partners, with a demonstrated track record of building deep relationships and influencing peers and leaders
• Comfort operating with flexibility in your approach in order to deliver results in a fast paced, constantly changing and highly ambiguous work environment
• Track record in using a strategic approach to solve complicated problems and strong collaboration skills in order to pull partners into your work process
• Communicate digital accessibility needs and solutions with grace, logic and data
• Have a passion for continuously improving digital experiences for people with disabilities
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong technical and analytical aptitude

Nice To Haves

• Interest or experience in working with UX Design, UX research, Software Engineering or Product Management is a plus

Responsibilities

• Embed with teams of developers, designers and product owners responsible for creating world-class accessible experiences for Target Guests and Target Team Members.
• Learn and apply internal accessibility procedures (based on WCAG 2.2) to digital experiences at all phases of web and app development, including discovery, design, engineering, testing and regression.
• Use assistive technologies to test all experiences for accessibility gaps prior to them going live.
• Participate in guest research and leverage data to inform decisions.
• Help to define objectives and results with product, design, engineering and business partners.
• Constructively challenge current thinking across the company, pushing boundaries and driving change that will deliver exceptional user-centric accessible experiences.
• Build relationships and influence partners in a matrixed environment.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation
• Robust onboarding
• Personal and career development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed