Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is to manage the accessibility compliance for all of the products within Microsoft Security.
Key projects: This role will contribute to helping teams adopt to accessibility compliance early on the product life cycle.
Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of 1/3 in meetings, 1/3 responding to inquiries from teams on various issues, 1/3 going through artifacts auditing or services bug.
Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition
What makes this role interesting? - This role provides the opportunity to work with a variety of teams, from UX research design, and content design to development and customer support.
Unique Selling Points: exposure to a lot of the entire product life cycle and working with multiple stakeholders
Top 2 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience
Minimum 4 years experience with accessibility knowledge/technical knowledge
Minimum 4 years experience with Shareoint, Power BI, Power Automate, SQL, advanced MS office skills
An Accessibility project manager's main role is to make sure that products and services meet the requirements of accessibility and usability standards. This person will collaborate with the current central accessibility team members in their regular tasks and projects.
Job Responsibilities
Assist the central accessibility team with helping product teams meet and sustain accessibility standards, and design user-friendly products.
Perform project management tasks, such as tracking outcomes, creating status updates, communicating with product teams, and overseeing successful completion of project objectives.
Answer questions from product teams about accessibility technical guidance, programs, processes, data, and policies.
Help improve the accessibility program data gathering and organization.
Help with documentation of accessibility program processes.
Review accessibility issues and test pass results to ensure they comply with established quality criteria.
Conduct data analysis and create visualization/dashboarding that leads to actionable recommendations.
Skills
Knowledge and application of accessibility best practices, per W3C WAI guidelines and specifications (WCAG, WI-ARIA etc.), Section 508 and other evolving accessibility standards.
Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
Good teamwork and interpersonal skills to work with various stakeholders and teams to improve data and business processes.
Ability to handle multiple tasks with great attention to detail.
Project management skills and the ability to work well and meet deadlines with different priorities in a highly collaborative agile environment.
A willingness to learn and take on new challenges as they come up.
Preferred: SharePoint, Power BI, Power Automate, SQL, advanced MS Office skill
Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
Contract
Job function
Project Management and Information Technology
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
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