Accessibility Director, Accessibility Tools and AI Enablement

Join the Chase Consumer Bank Digital Accessibility Team, enabling culture, habits, tools, data, and support to help teams deliver fully accessible digital experiences for every customer. As the Executive Director, Accessibility Director, Accessibility Tools and AI Enablement, reporting to the Managing Director, Head of Digital Accessibility, you will set strategy and lead execution for firmwide accessibility tooling and AI enablement to ensure consistent, verifiable accessibility across channels, including dynamic and agentic AI-generated experiences. You will partner closely with the Director of Accessibility Standards and the Director of Accessibility Oversight (Governance and Policy), plus product, design, and engineering leaders across lines of business.

Own a multi-year roadmap that scales accessibility through productized tooling, automation, and AI enablement, while bringing structure to dispersed AI initiatives into a coherent platform strategy. Bake accessibility into the evolving PDLC (product development lifecycle) by defining how AI systems consume requirements for design, development, and testing, and how those requirements persist for runtime-generated UIs—using repeatable patterns, rules and skills exposed via APIs, and measurable assurance.

Job Responsibilities

• Own the accessibility tooling and AI enablement product portfolio: intake, prioritization, roadmap, delivery, adoption, and outcomes. 
• Measure impact with clear metrics (defect reduction, time-to-remediation, coverage, satisfaction, and risk reduction) and drive continuous improvement.
• Set the operating model for accessibility in AI-assisted and agentic delivery: strategy, principles, guardrails, evaluation, and alignment of emerging AI projects to reduce duplication and ensure consistent use of approved frameworks and patterns.
• With the Director of Accessibility Standards, define and implement assurance frameworks embedded in the PDLC that translate requirements into acceptance criteria and executable checks. 
• Ensure these frameworks cover deterministic builds and non-deterministic, agentic generation (including runtime UI creation), supported by human-in-the-loop and human-on-the-loop controls and auditable evidence.
• Partner with the Director of Accessibility Oversight (Governance and Policy) to manage reputational, compliance, and operational risk for AI-generated experiences, including governance of variability inherent in non-deterministic outputs. 
• Ensure internal AI tools and interfaces are accessible to employees and customers using assistive technologies.

Required Qualifications, Skills and Capabilities

• 8+ years of experience in digital accessibility, implementing accessible experiences in real products at enterprise scale.
• Expert knowledge of accessibility standards and specifications, including WCAG 2.2, WAI-ARIA, and core web and platform semantics used to produce accessible experiences.
• Hands-on software engineering experience architecting, building, and shipping production systems (APIs, libraries, automation, CI or CD integrations) across web and or mobile ecosystems.
• Strong product management and product ownership for internal platforms: strategy, roadmap, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, adoption, and outcome-focused metrics or OKRs.
• Experience building or leading enterprise design systems and or component libraries, including governance and measurable adoption across many teams. Significant AI experience, including building AI-powered tooling and agentic workflows for software delivery (generation, review, remediation, test creation), plus establishing evaluation, guardrails, and quality controls to make outputs verifiable and testable.
• Experience evaluating, managing, and negotiating with accessibility vendors. Demonstrated others-centric attitude, focused on transparency and bringing value, uplifting others, sharing credit and succeeding as a team
• Demonstrated consultative and collaborative approach with skill at navigating complex organizations with a variety of objectives and personalities Demonstrates superior judgment to mitigate risk that could impact the firm’s reputation
• Proven people leadership managing teams that include accessibility experts, testers, and software engineers or developers, with a track record of building high-performing, accountable teams.
• Proven ability to lead through influence and collaborate across a highly matrixed organization. Ability to communicate effectively and confidently (both verbal and written) with strong story-telling / deck-writing / public speaking and presentation skills required
• Openness to an environment of active developmental feedback from peers and managers; eagerness to work in a fast-paced, results-driven, highly dynamic environment. 
• Passion for accessibility and ability to communicate the importance and value of accessibility through data, story, and influence.

Preferred Qualifications, Skills and Capabilities

• Bachelor’s degree required, with preference for Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Financial services or another highly regulated industry background.
• Breadth across large-scale UI platforms (web and or mobile) and modern front-end frameworks.
• Experience designing platform API models and governance approaches that drive consistent outcomes across many teams and technology stacks.