About the Team
At Miro, we understand that teams include people of different backgrounds, experiences, and access needs — so we strive to give everyone an opportunity to collaborate. The Accessibility team at Miro is working towards removing the barriers that prevent people with disabilities from participating fully in the collaboration process.
Our approach is based on three key pillars:
- Compliance: Ensure Miro complies with all relevant legislation and guidance around accessibility.
- Sustainability: Ensure all Mironeers have the tools and knowledge required to ensure that we don't introduce new accessibility issues into the product development process.
- Innovation: Unlock canvas accessibility by providing a usable experience for people with disabilities.
About the Role
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The Miro accessibility team is pushing the boundaries of what is possible with assistive technologies, current browser technologies and HTML elements such as canvas. In this role, you will have the opportunity to balance traditional accessibility knowledge and requirements (such as compliance with WCAG 2.2 AA) with the opportunity to innovate and influence the future of collaboration tools by following a user-centered design methodology that places users at the center.
This is not a typical accessibility role, in that we often need to implement common accessibility features from scratch - for example, when considering keyboard navigation, our team had to write the algorithm to determine which element focus should move to next when the user presses the Tab key, in an unlimited space, real-time collaborative environment.
What you’ll do
- Provide guidance and support to teams across Miro to ensure features are accessible from launch.
- Research and implement technical approaches to improve canvas accessibility across a range of assistive technologies.
- Lead the development of features that help Miro users create accessible experiences.
[Help Miro users create boards and templates that are fully accessible]
- Design and drive technical solution highlighting risks, alternative solutions and architectural tradeoffs
- Identify gaps in designs or architecture related to team goals
- Seek feedback, think creatively, embrace change, and have a drive for continuous innovation.
What you’ll need
- Experience in working on development teams in product / SaaS companies
- Expert knowledge and experience of accessibility and web standards such as WCAG, ARIA
- Experience using at least one of the following assistive technologies: JAWS, NVDA and/or VoiceOver
- Knowledge and understanding of how people with disabilities interact with assistive technologies.
- Experience with modern web-stack development (Javascript or TypeScript, Webpack, React and React Native) in complex web applications
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to build relationships and work across a wide range of teams
- Design and drive technical solution highlighting risks, alternative solutions and architectural tradeoffs
What's in it for you
- Competitive equity package
- Lunch, snacks and drinks provided in the office
- Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance
- Annual learning and development allowance to grow your skills and career
- Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team
About Miro
Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 60M users worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,800 employees in 12 hubs around the world.
We are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!
Check out more about life at Miro:
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lifeatmiro
- Blog: https://miro.com/careers/life-at-miro/all/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mirohq/
At Miro, we strive to create and foster an environment of belonging and collaboration across cultural differences. Miro’s mission — Empower teams to create the next big thing — is how we think about our product, people, and culture. We believe that creating big things requires diverse and inclusive teams. Diversity invites all talent with different demography, identities and styles to step in, and inclusion invites them to step closer together. Every day, we are working to build a more diverse Miro, cultivate a sense of belonging for future and current Mironeers around the world, and foster an environment where everyone can collaborate and embrace differences.
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