Accessibility Analyst, Google Pay
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in digital accessibility, including evaluating products with assistive technologies (e.g., screen readers) and automation tools.
- Experience reading or debugging code in one or more common language (e.g., JavaScript, Python, Java).
- Experience in web and mobile accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG).
Preferred qualifications:
- Professional certification in accessibility (e.g., IAAP WAS, CPACC).
- Experience implementing or maintaining accessibility automation frameworks at the code level.
- Experience leveraging generative AI tools and prompt engineering to automate workflows or solve accessibility issues.
- Knowledge of global accessibility laws and standards (e.g., Section 508, EN 301 549).
- Ability to document complex technical specifications and provide actionable remediation guidance at the code level.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical roadmaps and drive consensus on user goals.
About the job
Join our team to make Google's Payments products accessible to everyone! We're looking for a passionate Accessibility Analyst to ensure our products are usable by people of all abilities, across all platforms.
As an Accessibility Analyst, you will play a crucial role in embedding accessibility throughout the product lifecycle. You'll be responsible for testing, including bug triage, feature launch reviews, and product auditing. You will represent the users with disabilities, ensuring new features are built inclusively from the start. You will be pioneering and scaling AI-augmented solutions to enhance accessibility testing and resolution velocity. You'll collaborate closely with developers and designers, providing technical guidance to ensure compliance with global accessibility standards and regional laws.
Whether it is paying online with Autofill, using tap and pay in stores, or using the Google Pay app, the Payments team at Google is focused on making payments simple, seamless, and secure. In addition to consumer payment technologies, the Payments team also powers the money movement between Google and its consumers and businesses.
Responsibilities
- Conduct comprehensive accessibility audits of products across web, Android, and iOS platforms.
- Triage complex accessibility issues, determining their priority, impact, and appropriate engineering ownership.
- Consult with Engineering and Design teams on technical implementation, including focus management, semantic HTML/native component usage, and accessible component choices.
- Perform accessibility design reviews and validate annotations (e.g., accessibility specifications) in design tools like Figma. Pilot, develop, and scale AI-powered agents and tools to automate accessibility triage, testing,and improve issue resolution efficiency.
- Perform thorough launch reviews for new features, making the call on whether they meet Google's accessibility bar.