Lead Accessibility Analyst
Lead Accessibility Analyst
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About us:
Target is an iconic brand a Fortune 50 company and one of Americas leading retailers.
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.
Target UX is a group of design research and accessibility practitioners and experts with a passion for improving and innovating our digital experiences for Targets guests team members and partners. Here we pride ourselves on designing tangible inspiring and impactful solutions that serve all aspects of our business and being a part of the team means you will play a critical role for Targets digital experience by increasing ease simplicity value and delight for every touchpoint.
About the Job:
As a Lead Accessibility Analyst youll be embedded with a team of developers designers and product owners and that team is altogether responsible for creating worldclass accessible experiences for Target Guests and Target Team Members. This includes the creation of entirely new experiences as well as improvement to existing ones. Youll be wellpositioned to make an impact as a Lead Accessibility Analyst working on a friendly and highperforming team operating at the heart of Targets growing digital business.
In this role you will be involved in the full product development cycle providing accessibility consultation during the ideation design development and testing phases providing final sign off prior to the experience being launched. Youll use your WCAG knowledge to guide your partners in the design and development of innovative and accessible digital experiences. Youll do this by experimenting and collaborating through product discovery and design sprints with both nextgeneration ideas and optimizations of current experiences in support of Targets business strategies.
Youll bring empathy and guest insights to every business problem. Youll participate in guest research and leverage data to inform design decisions. Youll help to define objectives and results with product design engineering and business partners. Youll push work forward with high standards and an approach that follows the voice of the guest. Youll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of leaders product designers content designers engineers product managers data analysts and researchers.
Youll constructively challenge current thinking across the enterprise pushing boundaries and driving change that will deliver exceptional usercentric accessible experiences. Youre a storyteller by nature and you thrive on building relationships. Youre a proactive agent of change with a bias toward action. Youre skilled at influencing partners and working in a matrixed environment.
Youll be the master of your own destiny in an environment that has strong support for worklife balance. Well support you along the way with robust onboarding as well as personal and career development to help you grow as a Lead Accessibility Analyst.
Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About You:
Technical Experience
Minimum10years of experience with at least6years of experience in Accessibility field
Expert skills in understanding WCAG 2.1 AA ADA & Section 508 standards and working in an agile environment with developers and designers in applying requirements to create accessible experiences.
Ability to understand code and work with developers in finding solutions
Ability to understand the user journey and validate the wireframes or visual designs according to accessibility standards.
Proven ability to successfully lead accessibility efforts throughout all phases of development within largescale projects and initiatives involving multiple crossfunctional teams.
Experience developing procedures to guide consistent accessibility consulting across an organization.
Experience performing accessibility testing of web and app experiences with assistive technology including keyboards and screen readers.
Experience challenging the existing process with new ways of bringing in process efficiency.
Exposure to automation tools and coming up with innovative ideas to stay updated with the current trends and needs.
Soft Skills
Proven track record working in a global organization building strong relationships with US based partners and showcasing excellent communication skills to maintain business alignment.
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 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 to pull partners into your work process.
Communicate digital accessibility needs and solutions with grace logic and data.
Showcase examples of successful mentoring of peers which demonstrates your approach to teaching to elevate the work of analysts on your team.
Have a passion for continuously improving digital experiences for people with disabilities.
Awareness of disability & accessibility laws (RPWD Act ADA & Section 508) across India & US.
REPORTING/WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
Reports to Senior Manager Digital Accessibility.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
