[Remote] Sr Accessibility Product Manager, Clinical Solutions (Remote)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elsevier is a global leader in information and analytics, dedicated to advancing science and improving health outcomes. They are seeking a Senior Accessibility Product Manager to lead the accessibility program for Clinical Solutions products, ensuring compliance with evolving standards and embedding accessibility into product development practices.
Responsibilities
- Own the Accessibility Program
- Assess the current compliance posture, identify gaps, and drive the program from where it is to where it needs to be
- Own conformance documentation (VPATs/ACRs) across all active products — ensuring everything is current, accurate, and ready for enterprise procurement
- Partner with Legal on ADA Title III obligations, contractual commitments, and customer inquiries; be the person who knows where the risks are before they become escalations
- Stay ahead of the legal and regulatory landscape — enforcement trends, emerging state statutes, and international equivalents for our global customer base
- Drive Cross-Functional Execution
- Build and maintain the portfolio-level remediation roadmap across a large suite of products spanning physician, nursing, specialty, and patient engagement categories
- Work with product managers, engineers, and designers to embed accessibility into how we build — not as an afterthought audit, but as part of discovery, design, and delivery
- Coordinate a distributed network of accessibility champions embedded in product teams; set direction, maintain standards, and keep execution coherent across teams
- Own triage for incoming accessibility issues — from customers, audits, and legal — and drive them to resolution
- Extend Coverage to Content
- Accessibility at Elsevier isn't just about the UI layer — clinical content, educational materials, and PDFs all carry their own obligations
- Work with content authoring teams to ensure alt text, captions, reading order, and PDF accessibility are built into how content is created, not fixed after the fact
- Build Visibility and Capability
- Define the metrics that tell leadership whether the program is working, and report against them consistently
- Create the standards and guidance that raise baseline accessibility capability across product and engineering teams — reducing reliance on escalation
- Be the authoritative voice on accessibility for Clinical Solutions; represent the program at the leadership level and in enterprise customer conversations
Skills
- 6+ years in product management, with at least 2 years owning a digital accessibility or compliance program at a product-led company
- Deep working knowledge of WCAG 2.1/2.2, Section 508, and ADA Title III as applied to web and mobile software products
- Experience producing and defending VPATs / Accessibility Conformance Reports in an enterprise B2B context
- Proven ability to inherit an existing program, assess its maturity honestly, and drive measurable improvement — you know how to make something significantly better without starting over
- Experience coordinating distributed ownership models — you've worked across teams where you influence without direct authority
- Technical fluency sufficient for credible conversations with front-end engineers on ARIA patterns, semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, and screen reader behavior
- Experience navigating Legal stakeholders and accessibility-related procurement and contractual requirements
- Background in health tech, SaaS, or enterprise software with a large, heterogeneous product portfolio
- Experience with content accessibility — alt text, closed captioning, PDF remediation, authoring tool compliance
- Hands-on experience with assistive technology testing (NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, ZoomText)
- Familiarity with automated testing tooling (axe, Lighthouse, Pa11y) and CI/CD integration
- Exposure to European Accessibility Act / EN 301 549 for international product lines
- CPACC, WAS, or equivalent IAAP certification
Benefits
- This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.
- We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization.
- With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
- Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
- We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career.
- We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.
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