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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