Highlights
Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, is the world"s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Accessibility Specialist, you will: Serve as an accessibility subject matter expert (SME) across 200+ AWS services, our design systems, web experiences, and mobile experiences.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Seattle, WA |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1994 |
| Website | http://Amazon.com/militaryroles |
Description
Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, is the world"s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. At AWS, our vision is to be Earth"s most customer-centric company. That means making our cloud computing accessible to everyone.
Do you want to accelerate how thousands of builders deliver accessible experiences at-scale? The AWS Accessibility organization is looking for a Sr. Accessibility Specialist to help us deliver born accessible customer experiences and revolutionize the way that service teams build with accessibility in mind.
The right candidate will have a background with driving accessibility in a complex, cross-functional environment. You will have deep expertise related to accessibility standards and innovation. This role requires strong judgment, the ability to earn trust with your stakeholders, and the ability to distill guidance to a variety of stakeholders across multiple levels at AWS.
Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Accessibility Specialist, you will:
- Serve as an accessibility subject matter expert (SME) across 200+ AWS services, our design systems, web experiences, and mobile experiences
- Innovate solutions using AI and other techniques to continuously improve the way that AWS addresses accessibility at-scale
- Prototype accessibility solutions for complex challenges
- Conduct accessibility reviews and provide service teams with actionable guidance, including usability considerations to improve the customer experience.
- Collaborate across organizations to scale our accessibility processes, tooling, and features
- Influence stakeholders across AWS, communicate changes, issues, and resolutions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Establish enterprise-wide technical excellence by driving accessibility standards and requirements into tooling that drives the AWS software development lifecycle
About the team
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn't about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it's about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
About Company
At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles