Principal Accessibility Product Manager, Devices & Services
Amazon.com
We are looking for an exceptionally motivated, talented, and experienced Accessibility Principal Product Manager with strong customer obsession and a track record of driving organization change. You will be responsible for driving existing and new accessibility initiatives for customers with disabilities, including inventing new ways for customers with disabilities to interact with our diverse set of devices and services offerings; and you will lead projects staffed both with our Device Accessibility engineering team, as well as those staffed by engineering partner teams within Devices & Services.
This role requires a high degree of autonomy, drive, and the ability to problem solve. You will be well suited to this role if you are customer-focused, resourceful, team-oriented, and have an ability to work independently under time constraints. You will work and influence internal and external stakeholders, manage cross functional programs, and be able to help prioritize amidst ambitious goals and timelines.
Key job responsibilities
- Developing our multi-year accessibility strategy, for serving customers with disabilities with our devices & services
- Reviewing product roadmaps across Devices & Services, and drafting proposals for how to best address accessibility in those roadmaps
- Drafting and presenting specific proposals for new accessibility features to leadership
- Working with user research to better understand user needs and desires, and how well particular designs and approaches are accepted by customers
- Working with accessibility engineering and prototyping to explore accessible user interaction models
- Working with QA to provide guidance on issue priority
About the team
You would be joining Amazon’s largest, and longest tenured, accessibility team. Over the past decade, their work was recognized by American Foundation for the Blind with their Helen Keller Achievement award, by Disability:IN with their Marketplace Innovator award, and by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai with the FCC Chairman’s Award for Advancements in Accessibility (among others). Your colleagues bring over a century of combined experience in the field, and include Amazon’s sole MacArthur Fellow, and two of the only three people to be recognized twice with Helen Keller Achievement Awards for their work.
This role requires a high degree of autonomy, drive, and the ability to problem solve. You will be well suited to this role if you are customer-focused, resourceful, team-oriented, and have an ability to work independently under time constraints. You will work and influence internal and external stakeholders, manage cross functional programs, and be able to help prioritize amidst ambitious goals and timelines.
Key job responsibilities
- Developing our multi-year accessibility strategy, for serving customers with disabilities with our devices & services
- Reviewing product roadmaps across Devices & Services, and drafting proposals for how to best address accessibility in those roadmaps
- Drafting and presenting specific proposals for new accessibility features to leadership
- Working with user research to better understand user needs and desires, and how well particular designs and approaches are accepted by customers
- Working with accessibility engineering and prototyping to explore accessible user interaction models
- Working with QA to provide guidance on issue priority
About the team
You would be joining Amazon’s largest, and longest tenured, accessibility team. Over the past decade, their work was recognized by American Foundation for the Blind with their Helen Keller Achievement award, by Disability:IN with their Marketplace Innovator award, and by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai with the FCC Chairman’s Award for Advancements in Accessibility (among others). Your colleagues bring over a century of combined experience in the field, and include Amazon’s sole MacArthur Fellow, and two of the only three people to be recognized twice with Helen Keller Achievement Awards for their work.
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