Accessibility Design Lead

**Join us on our mission to make a better world of work.**

Culture Amp revolutionizes how over 25 million employees across 6,000 companies create a better world of work. As the global platform leader for employee experience, Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, develop high performing teams, and retain talent via cutting-edge research, powerful technology, and the largest employee dataset in the world. The most innovative companies across the globe, such as Salesforce, Unilever, PwC, KIND, SoulCycle, Celonis and BigCommerce depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by 10 years of innovation, leading capital venture funds, and offices in the U.S, U.K, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp is recognized as one of the world's top private cloud companies by Forbes and one of the most innovative workplace companies by Fast Company.
- We have a remote-first culture and this position can be based anywhere from Australia or New Zealand. This role can be fully remote or a hybrid if you are in Melbourne. We encourage you to work in the way that best suits you._

**How you can help make a better world of work**

Here, you'll get to:

- Work closely with the camp leadership, team leads, product managers and fellow designers to understand and prioritise our customer needs and problems with respect to accessibility
- Define success criteria and measurement, and report progress across the team and business
- Participate and lead in the design, observation, and analysis of user research
- Design and test components and features in our design system
- Define a design approach that ensures the design and development of world-class accessible digital products in each phase of the product lifecycle
- Work with our Accessibility Engineering Lead to coordinate internal and external accessibility audits and communicate strategic insights and response action plans to product teams and business stakeholders
- Partner with product managers and product delivery groups to influence product backlogs to prioritise inclusion and accessibility improvements in our camps
- Provide high-quality, accurate and timely advice about user behaviour, digital inclusion, accessibility and assistive technologies to stakeholders across the organisation
- Advise and coach fellow designers and product teams on how they can bring our commitments to accessibility and equity to life within their work
- You have_
- Comfort with working collaboratively with customers and cross-functional team members
- Advanced ability to create experience maps, user journeys and service blueprints, interaction models, flows, and wireframes
- Working knowledge of prototyping tools like Figma, Sketch, etc.
- Experience conducting user research & testing activities
- Understanding of WCAG guidelines, including how they are commonly interpreted and applied, as well as the shortcomings and limitations of this standard
- 3+ years as an accessibility specialist working in a multi-disciplinary environment delivering high-quality and wide-ranging accessibility-related outputs, ideally within a product or high-growth SaaS organisation
- Understanding or lived experience of how people with disability use digital platforms and the functional impact of impairments, injury, and health conditions on accessibility

It may be helpful to have experience with the following:

- Be a thought leader, coach and speaker on the topic of inclusion and accessibility
- A degree in Interaction Design, HCI or equivalent experience designing and shipping accessible software

We believe that inclusive businesses are better, not just for "company results", but for the world. We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavour to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

We ensure you have the tools you need to thrive both in and out of work.
- MacBooks for you to do your best work
- Share Options - it's important to us that everyone is an owner and can share in our success
- Excellent parental leave and in work support programme, - for those families to be
- Flexible working schedule - where we can, let's make work, work for you
- Fun and inclusive digital, and (in the future) in-person events

Most importantly. An opportunity to really make a difference in people's lives

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