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About the Team
Workday has a strong commitment to accessibility, and we are growing our team to further expand upon accessible experiences across Workday solutions. Whether you want to work for a team that values work life balance and camaraderie, build solid software that will be used by millions, or want to work for a market leader named a top workplace, join us on the Workday Accessibility Product Team.

About the Role

Are you passionate about digital accessibility and design? We're looking for a versatile accessibility specialist / subject matter expert to join our new Atlanta accessibility team. You'll contribute to the growth of the Workday Accessible experiences across our solutions. This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives on learning about new technologies and working on fun and challenging projects. It's a hands-on, technically inclined role, where you'll be working with an amazing cross-functional team to understand customer needs, gather requirements, and then lead the overall process of taking accessible UX designs through to production.

The ideal candidate will :

• have a user-centric focus on delivering the best products and services and have a passion for the opportunity to positively change how millions of people who use assistive technology interact with enterprise applications - making them more engaging, personalized, and inclusive.
• have experience working with a variety of assistive technologies and relating WCAG requirements to broad audiences to win support.
• be a fast learner, detail oriented, decisive, and enjoy a fast-paced work environment and an initiative taker, early adopter, and technology enthusiast, able to translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes.
• be able to work closely with engineering teams to deliver features quickly and with optimal resources
• be a collaborative teammate who uses positive leadership to coordinate and deliver results across teams
• is ambitious and gets great pleasure from helping others understand, coordinate and address their challenges, embraces being the 'voice of the customer' during product development.

Responsibilities :

• Organize and feedback from users of assistive technology to feed the strategic backlog in your product area.
• Evaluate software for conformance to WCAG 2.1 criteria for desktop and native mobile applications.
• Write detailed and inclusive product specifications, including UX mockups, and detailed user stories.
• Work with partners in federal and state sales cycles to ensure alignment on Workday's accessible journey
• Own the release plan and functional backlog for your product area, and align it with all stakeholders and dependencies.
• Set and track metrics for your product area.
• Engage directly with customers in both structured and unstructured settings and communication.
• Provide mentoring and leadership to more junior team members.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (or higher) in a related field
• 3+ years professional experience in digital accessibility.
• 2+ years experience with Accessible Web and Accessible Mobile technologies

Other Qualifications

• Solid understanding of Accessible Web and Accessible Mobile technologies with an appetite for learning more
• Strong problem-solving skills and a willingness to roll up sleeves to get things done
• Strong communication skills - written and verbal - with the ability to deliver engaging presentations and demos to customers and partners
• Passionate: about user experiences and accessible design and development.
• Flexible: willingness to change direction, based on new information.
• Organized: adept at product ownership, scrum, story creation.
• Collaborative: coordinate large-scale projects and teams across Workday
• Inspiring: communicate effectively with customers, partners and the market
• Technical: work with engineers to navigate technical issues and solve complex accessibility challenges.
• Effective: work with remote teams in various Workday locations to ensure goals are met.
• You see product development as a team sport, and thrive in a highly collaborative, agile, continuous discovery and continuous delivery mentality.

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