Lead Experience Designer, Accessibility

The community you will join:

As a Lead Experience Designer focusing on Accessibility, you will partner with supporting disciplines such as writers, researchers, product specialists and engineers to build beautiful, usable, forward-looking products that empower people. Our design charter is to help foster an emotional connection with our community, keeping usability and accessibility as our prime virtues. We do our best to practice inclusive design at every turn, spanning both the online and offline experiences we create for our community.

The difference you will make

As a Lead Experience Designer on Accessibility, you will be responsible for defining and scaling our inclusive design initiatives with a focus on digital accessibility. You’ll collaborate with other designers, UX writers, researchers, and other cross-functional partners to elevate product quality and empower design teams to deliver innovative and accessible solutions.

With a strong foundation in both interaction and visual design, you understand what it takes to translate complex accessibility guidelines into simple, usable, and scalable solutions. You are capable of quickly onboarding to a highly technical domain, and partnering effectively with a variety of stakeholders to advocate for inclusion and uplevel product quality. You are passionate about inclusive design, inspiring others to proactively design for inclusion.

A typical day

• Empower design teams to build more inclusive end-to-end user experiences 
• Contribute accessible UI components, patterns, and documentation for Airbnb’s industry-leading Design Language System
• Define and deliver scalable tooling and frameworks for other designers to leverage, such as accessibility specs and annotations
• Close knowledge gaps and increase technical expertise within Design by facilitating workshops and inclusive design trainings
• Translate industry standards, like Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), into understandable and approachable deliverables to uplevel designers and writers
• Review designs, mockups, and prototypes throughout the product development cycle to increase quality and compliance through weekly office hours

Your expertise

• 8+ years of professional experience in user experience and digital design
• Experience in the inclusive design or accessibility space, or with design language systems
• Proficiency designing across multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Desktop, Mobile Web)
• Effective communication skills and an ability to translate technical accessibility guidelines into persuasive practices people will embrace
• Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguous environments, including adapting to new challenges, scenarios, and working styles
• Understanding of how different assistive technologies (like screen readers or speech recognition software) behave, and how users of assistive technology may be impacted by different design choices

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.