Principal UX Accessibility Specialist

Job Description:

Role Overview

As a Principal UX Accessibility Specialist, you will help Fidelity Investments’ centralized User Experience Design (UXD) organization to shape itsUX accessibility strategy and practice for its customer-facing web, mobile, and hybrid experiences.

Key Responsibilities 

• Empower designers to design inclusively by providing training, tools, and support.

• Champion a vision for scalingAccessibility and inclusive design practices within alarge organization.

• Support our enterprise design system for Web, iOS, and Android.

• Collaborate with Accessibility teams from across the firm to develop a unified Accessibility support model.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years’ experience in Digital Accessibility or a related UX discipline (ex. Design, Research, Content Strategy, Instructional Design, Front-End Development) with a strong focus on Accessibility.

• Expertise in making mobile, web, and hybrid applications accessible.

• Fluency in inclusive design principles and UX design standards for web, iOS, and Android.

• Experience supporting design system teams inmaking web, iOS, and Android libraries,assets, and design language accessible.

• Expertise in usingassistive technologies (JAWS, NVDA, Voiceover, TalkBack, Dragon Naturally Speaking) to evaluate digital experiences.

• Deep empathy for and understanding of how people with disabilities use assistive technologies.

• Ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams and provide UX accessibility feedback on the fly.

• Strong ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and adapt to their changing needs.

• Knowledge of accessibility laws (ADA, Section 508, CVAA) and standards (WCAG, ARIA, UAAG).

• Interpersonal skills to build trust and work with partners from across UX disciplines as well asother Accessibility teams across the firm.
  

Preferred Skills

• Expertise with Figma to support our Accessibility Annotations toolkit.

• UX development skills (SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS).

• IAAP CPACC and/or WAS certifications.

The Team

The Fidelity UX Accessibility Team is part of a large, centralized User Experience Design (UXD) organization that provides design services to Fidelity’s Retail, Workplace, and Institutional businesses. As a member of the UX Accessibility and parent UXD team, you will help make Fidelity’s products more accessible and usable for individual investors, business owners, administrators, and financial professionals. Whether it’s integrating Accessibility into our design process, toolkits, systems, training, orconsulting with teams, supporting an Accessibility champion’s network, responding to client feedback, and partnering with other Accessibility teams to advance a firm-wide approach to Accessibility, this is a chance to make a big difference. 

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Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.