Senior Accessibility Consultant

Target • Minneapolis, MN

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Target’s Global UX team includes design, content, research, and accessibility practitioners focused on improving digital experiences for guests, team members, and partners. The Senior Accessibility Consultant embeds with teams of developers, designers, and product owners to create new accessible experiences and improve existing ones. The role applies Target’s internal accessibility procedures, based on WCAG 2.2, throughout discovery, design, engineering, testing, and regression. It uses assistive technologies to identify accessibility gaps before experiences go live, sometimes in collaboration with other accessibility team members. The consultant contributes to guest research, uses data to inform decisions, helps define objectives and results with partners, and advocates for inclusive, user-centered experiences. The role requires building relationships, influencing partners in a matrixed environment, and constructively challenging existing practices to drive change. Target provides robust onboarding and personal and career development. Job duties may change based on business needs. The position follows a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day arrangement, with work performed both onsite at the assigned Target HQ Minnesota location and virtually according to role, team, and task needs. Work duties cannot be performed outside the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target.

Requirements

• Demonstrated success applying WCAG 2.2 AA to create accessible experiences.
• Ability to lead accessibility efforts throughout all phases of development in projects involving multiple cross-functional teams.
• Experience testing web and app experiences for accessibility with assistive technology, including keyboards and screen readers.
• Ability to work effectively in a large organization, build deep relationships, and influence peers and leaders.
• Flexibility to deliver results in a fast-paced, constantly changing, and highly ambiguous work environment.
• Strategic approach to solving complicated problems and strong collaboration skills.
• Ability to communicate digital accessibility needs and solutions with grace, logic, and data.
• 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 UX Design, UX research, Software Engineering, or Product Management.

Responsibilities

• Embed with developers, designers, and product owners to create accessible digital experiences and improve existing ones.
• Apply Target’s internal accessibility procedures, based on WCAG 2.2, throughout discovery, design, engineering, testing, and regression.
• Use assistive technologies to test web and app experiences for accessibility gaps before they go live.
• Lead accessibility efforts across all phases of development within projects involving multiple cross-functional teams.
• Participate in guest research and use data to inform decisions.
• Help define objectives and results with product, design, engineering, and business partners.
• Communicate accessibility needs and solutions and influence partners to deliver inclusive, user-centered experiences.
• Challenge current thinking and drive changes that improve accessibility.
• Build relationships and collaborate with partners across the organization.

Benefits

• Eligible team members and dependents may receive medical, vision, dental, and life insurance benefits.
• 401(k).
• Employee discount.
• Short-term disability and long-term disability.
• Paid sick leave and paid national holidays.
• Paid vacation.
• Robust onboarding and personal and career development support.

What This Job Offers

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