Principal UX Designer, Accessibility Specialist

Fidelity Investments - Boston, MA

Full-time - Principal

Onsite - Boston, MA

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

As a Principal UX Accessibility Specialist at Fidelity Investments, you will play a crucial role in shaping the UX accessibility strategy for customer-facing web, mobile, and hybrid experiences. This position focuses on empowering designers to create inclusive designs, supporting the enterprise design system, and collaborating with various teams to establish a unified accessibility support model.

Responsibilities

• Empower designers to design inclusively by providing training, tools, and support.
• Champion a vision for scaling Accessibility and inclusive design practices within a large 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years' experience in Digital Accessibility or a related UX discipline (e.g., 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 in making web, iOS, and Android libraries, assets, and design language accessible.
• Expertise in using assistive 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 as other Accessibility teams across the firm.

Nice-to-haves

• Expertise with Figma to evolve and maintain our Figma Accessibility Annotations toolkit.
• UX development skills (SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS).
• IAAP CPACC and/or WAS certifications.

Benefits

• Flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career.
• Opportunities for learning and career development.
• Recognition as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024 by Glassdoor.