Accessibility is a core priority at GitHub. As we continue to innovate, GitHub is looking for a Senior Accessibility Designer to revolutionize the way people with disabilities navigate, build, and collaborate on GitHub. You will be a part of a diversely skilled team of Accessibility Designers who work across teams and platforms to instill accessibility best practices across the product. This position is embedded in the Design Infrastructure team, part of the Design organization.

As a Senior Accessibility Designer, your role will focus on defining and evolving groundbreaking accessible components, patterns and features that will simplify the developer workflow for all.  You will lead by example, fostering a culture of curiosity, adaptability, empathy and inclusion. If you enjoy carving new paths, collaborating on challenging technical problems, driving clarity and decisions to achieve progress over perfection, you might find yourself a happy home on the GitHub Design team. 

What we’re looking for:

Senior Designers at GitHub are strong individual contributors; they're given a lot of autonomy and trust to work on high impact design projects. For this specific role, we're looking for someone who values the following: 

 

  • Systems thinking: Our team has to apply decisions holistically, making sure to look at new patterns in context to the larger system of the product, as well as ensuring we support experiences for individual features.
  • Inclusive design: GitHub is a home for all developers and our product should reflect that. This means considering the range of access needs of our users, as well as including and learning from people with a diverse set of perspectives. Designing for inclusivity can lead us to solving problems for the many and open up our product for more people.
  • Creating together: Facilitating collaboration between teams and individuals is key so that we continue to scale accessibility across the design system and product. 
  • Progress and impact: Driving towards solutions and striking the right balance of progress over perfection to push accessibility forward and help teams action on their accessibility journey.
  • Candidness: We encourage candidness and recognize its role in building trust between peers and leadership. Making decisions for projects, design patterns, and processes, will yield better results when we can get to the “real talk”.

Responsibilities:

  • Become an authority on GitHub’s inclusive design language, setting standards for our design system and how inclusive systems thinking is embedded in GitHub’s design practice.
  • Lead the accessible design of components, high impact patterns, and cross-cutting features of our design system and product, ensuring alignment with accessibility standards, guidelines, and best practices, including WCAG 2.1 and beyond.
  • Create interactive mockups, sample HTML, and lightweight prototypes to communicate and validate design decisions. Participate in the design, observation, and analysis of inclusive user research.
  • Provide regular accessibility design feedback to designers and engineers working across the design system and product.
  • Collaborate closely with design, product and engineering teams to ensure features are accessible to users of assistive technology such as screen readers, voice control, magnification.
  • Partner with select teams developing new features to share accessibility expertise as projects move from conception to launch, with a view to growing the project team’s inclusive thinking practices.
  • Partner with product management to shape and develop roadmaps for new initiatives, in collaboration with accessibility, product design, and engineering leadership.
  • Contribute to education materials and documentation.

Required qualifications:

  • 3+ years focused on accessibility design as an individual contributor
  • Experience in designing for web accessibility standards and using assistive technology including screen readers, voice control and magnification.
  • You have led the accessible design of complex components of a design system within an organization or as part of an open-source project.
  • You have experience in writing HTML & CSS within apps built in Ruby on Rails and React, and are comfortable using Git version control.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 7+ years total of design experience
  • You have strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
  • You have a technical background or experience working on developer tools.
  • You are comfortable writing JavaScript, React.js, or Ruby on Rails.
  • You have accessibility experience designing cross-platform experiences, from web to native mobile.
  • You have experience running inclusive user research projects.
  • You have experience developing training materials and leading educational workshops.

Minimum salary of $104,400 to maximum $276,900.

In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role.

Location: In this role, you can work remotely from anywhere in the United States.

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About GitHub: 

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.

Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). 

At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.

Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

Leadership Principles:

Customer Obsessed - Trust by Default - Ship to Learn - Own the Outcome - Growth Mindset - Global Product, Global Team - Anything is Possible - Practice Kindness

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!

Please note that benefits vary by country. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask your Talent Partner.

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