Senior UX Designer, Design System Accessibility
Sas 🇺🇸 Cary, North Carolina, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer will lead accessibility excellence for SAS's design system, Filament, by establishing standards and creating accessible design patterns. They will also mentor designers and advocate for inclusive design thinking across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Establish designer-focused accessibility standards and best practices for Filament, translating WCAG requirements into clear design principles, patterns, and decision-making frameworks
- Design reusable accessibility patterns, annotated component specifications, and guidelines for the Filament component offerings and UI patterns
- Develop, contribute to, and maintain Figma libraries, plugins, templates, and design resources that make it easy for designers to create accessible experiences by default
- Create documentation, design guidelines, and training materials specifically for designers
- Conduct workshops, design critiques, and office hours to build accessibility expertise and provide coaching across the organization
Requirements
- 8 years of user experience design and analysis or related experience
- Bachelor’s degree in UX, Interactive Media/Design, Information Architecture, Human Computer Interaction, or in a related design field
- Deep expertise in WCAG accessibility standards with a proven ability to translate compliance requirements into practical, designer-friendly guidance and scalable design systems
- Expert knowledge of designing for assistive technologies with a strong understanding of how design decisions impact accessibility
- Mastery of Figma with experience creating accessible component libraries, annotation systems, and design resources
Key Skills
- Accessibility design
- Design systems
- WCAG compliance
- Assistive technologies
- Figma
- Component libraries
- Annotation systems
- Design resources
- Designer-focused accessibility standards
- Accessible component libraries
- Design thinking
- User research
- Interaction design
- Visual design
- Front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
- Modern frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, etc.)
- Web Components
- Communication skills
- Collaboration skills
- Mentorship skills
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans
- Industry-leading 401k plan
- Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
- Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break
- Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days
- Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees
About Sas
SAS is a global leader in data and AI. With SAS software and industry-specific solutions, organizations transform data into trusted decisions. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.
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