Inclusive Design Manager

Company Description

CapTech is a team of master builders, creators, and problem solvers who help clients grow efficient, successful businesses. We unite diverse skills and perspectives to transform how data, systems, and ingenuity enable each client to advance what’s possible in a changing world.  

As perceptive partners, our U.S-based consultants find inspiration in the unknown and enjoy getting our hands dirty solving our clients’ myriad of challenges. Across industries and business goals, we fuse technical depth and analytical prowess with creative savvy to move clients forward. This drive helps each organization use technology, management, and insight to turn ideas into action. Together, we create outcomes that exceed the expected — which is one of the reasons we’ve been on the Inc. 500/5000 list for over a decade. 

Job Description

CapTech’s Customer Experience (CX) team seeks an Inclusive Design Manager with a proven track record of creating sophisticated digital interfaces that are usable and accessible to join our ever-growing team.  

As an Inclusive Design Manager, you’ll actively engage as a member of the Customer Experience practice area collaborating across teams to design and develop innovative and conformant solutions that ensure our digital products are accessible to people across a wide spectrum of ability. You will design, contribute to, test and review projects, providing actionable feedback and advice on accessibility improvements. You will also be actively involved in raising awareness for the importance of accessibility throughout the organization. Your role is to facilitate the implementation of accessible solutions and normalize inclusive design in our work.  

Responsibilities may include:  

• Crafting innovative information architectures, task flows, wireframes, prototypes or visual designs that follow interaction design and accessibility best practices 

• Leading advanced activities such as design workshops, rapid prototyping, and iterative user testing 

• Providing research oversight and direction for UX Analysts and Interaction Designers prior to review with Creative Director/UX Director and/or clients. 

• Creating clean, informative, and concise presentations for clients and internal teams that communicate the rationale behind designs 

• Consulting with clients and team members on the benefits of user experience and design  

• Working with internal teams to develop solutions for the implementation of accessibility best practices and inclusive design  

• Advocating for and spreading awareness of accessibility across the company  

• Building and maintaining various accessibility-focused documentation and toolkits available to all employees  

• Conducting reviews, tests and inspections of the different projects at predetermined milestones in order to ensure conformance with WCAG accessibility standards  

• Supporting tracking and reporting on accessibility-related task progress across projects  

• Helping to build, update, maintain and ensure compliance with accessibility requirements  

• Collaborating with project and department leadership to plan roadmaps and assign tasks associated with the implementation and testing of accessibility in our work  

• Stay up-to-date and informed on industry benchmarks, best practices, legal requirements and accessibility studies  

• Assist with various workshops and trainings regarding inclusive design  

Qualifications

• Proven written, verbal, conceptual and visual communication skills  

• High-level understanding of technologies with the ability to weave that understanding together to make informed decisions  

• Ability to create and present to internal teams and clients clean, detailed deliverables with high production value  

• Ability to work on multiple projects and deliver on time  

• Expert understanding of usability principles and accessibility heuristics  

• Advanced proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Figma, InVision and Sketch  

• Advanced knowledge of WCAG and other accessibility guidelines and standards 

• Working knowledge of HTML and front-end development concepts 

• Working knowledge of manual and automated accessibility review methodologies, using keyboard-only, screen readers, or tools such as Axe or WAVE  

• Proven track record of raising awareness and developing accessibility solutions in previous roles  

• 5+ years professional experience in the design industry  

Please include a link to your online portfolio with your application in order to be considered. S