Sr Accessibility Product Manager, Clinical Solutions; Remote

Overview

Sr. Accessibility Product Manager – leading a global accessibility program across Elsevier’s Clinical Solutions portfolio. The role drives compliance with evolving standards, embeds accessibility into product development, and enhances product quality, compliance, and customer trust.

• Own the Accessibility Program: assess current compliance posture, identify gaps, and drive continuous improvement.
• Maintain and update conformance documentation (VPATs/ACRs) for all active products.
• Partner with Legal on ADA TitleIII obligations, contractual commitments, and customer inquiries to pre‑empt risks.
• Monitor legal and regulatory trends, including enforcement, emerging state statutes, and international equivalents.
• Build and sustain a portfolio‑level remediation roadmap across physician, nursing, specialty, and patient engagement categories.
• Work with product managers, engineers, and designers to embed accessibility into discovery, design, and delivery – not as an afterthought.
• Coordinate a network of accessibility champions embedded in product teams, setting direction, maintaining standards, and ensuring coherent execution.
• Own triage for incoming accessibility issues—customers, audits, legal—and drive them to resolution.
• Extend coverage to content accessibility across clinical content, educational materials, and PDFs, ensuring alt text, captions, reading order, and PDF accessibility are built in.
• Define metrics that demonstrate program effectiveness and report to leadership consistently.
• Create and enforce standards and guidance that raise baseline accessibility capability across product and engineering teams.
• Serve as the authoritative voice on accessibility for Clinical Solutions, representing the program at leadership, customer, and enterprise levels.

• 6+ years of product‑management experience, 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 TitleIII 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, and drive measurable improvement without starting over.
• Experience coordinating distributed ownership models and influencing cross‑team collaboration 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.
• Strong preference for 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, Voice Over, Zoom Text).
• Familiarity with automated testing tooling (axe, Lighthouse, Pa11y) and CI/CD integration.
• Exposure to European Accessibility Act / EN301549 for international product lines.
• CPACC, WAS, or equivalent IAAP certification preferred.

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $115,400 – $192,300 (geographic differentials may apply). Base pay ranges for Maryland, New Jersey, and Ohio are noted separately. The position is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

Elsevier is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.