Senior Accessibility Program Manager

At GitHub, our mission is to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration. We believe people with disabilities should benefit from that progress and directly contribute to the creation of it.

We are seeking a forward-thinking, determined and innovative individual, who is passionate about the intersection of accessibility and technology, to help implement our accessibility strategy, which can be found at accessibility.github.com. This role will report directly to the Head of Accessibility and will be empowered to drive change internally and externally.

The successful candidate will: Have a deep understanding of accessibility, assistive technologies, and the ways that people with disabilities interact with technology. Have technical expertise that is grounded in professional experience as a software developer or designer. Have hands-on experience using AI and automation to improve accessibility at scale. Have professional experience managing accessibility initiatives within a large matrixed organization. Have a proven track record of delivering results that empower people with disabilities to use technology.

The goals of the GitHub accessibility program are to:

Empower GitHub employees to do the best work of their lives by creating an accessible work environment with internal guides and support for procurement processes. Empower developers with disabilities to build on GitHub by including their input throughout the development process, cultivating a culture of accessibility within GitHub, and driving accountability at scale. Empower our customers to meet their accessibility goals when building on GitHub by aggressively dogfooding the latest GitHub platform and AI features to run our internal accessibility program, Open-sourcing our internal tools when appropriate, and sharing best practices externally. Help improve the accessibility of open source by empowering people with disabilities to contribute, improving the availability and adoption of open-source Assistive Technologies, and improving the accessibility of mainstream open-source projects.

The Senior Accessibility Program Manager may contribute to all of those program goals over time. That said, their initial focus will include, but is not limited to: Manage listening systems including inclusive user research and feedback processes. Build an accessibility community of practice within our Enterprise customer community. Grow the capabilities of the open-source GitHub accessibility scanner and accelerate adoption by customers and open-source communities.