Senior Accessibility Specialist (f/m/d)

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

What you`ll do

As an Senior Accessibility Specialist you will be part of the Accessibility and Inclusive Design Team at SAP.
In your new role, you will redefine and strengthen the SAP Accessibility Compliance Office, that deals with front office and customer requests for product accessibility. You will closely work with global account teams, customer engagement roles and product teams across SAP to improve our accessibility set up.
Our goal is to transfer our product accessibility and inclusive design work into a selling customer story that helps SAP to ensure renewals and create new opportunities in our industries and markets.
You are able to translate strategic discussions into tangible projects, goals, and initiatives for SAP software accessibility, your working style is results-driven, self-driven and well organized. Our customers' success and satisfaction defines your work and our mission. In addition, we are looking for an empathetic team player with a positive mind set and a strong ability to network across functions, roles and departments. Furthermore, you will have many opportunities to prove your strategic, entrepreneurial thinking and pragmatic problem solving in a cross-product and cross department setup.

What you bring

• Deep understanding of accessibility procurement laws globalley
• Deep understanding of W3C WAI Accessibility HTML standards including ARIA
• Knowledge of SAP's product portfolio
• Good knowledge of SAP Product Standards and SAP Product Standard Accessibility specifically
• Proven record in managing projects into successful outcomes
• Multiple years of work experience in various roles, such as consulting, development or project management
• Ability to adapt quickly to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change
• Excellent communication and presentation skills & experience on all levels (incl. C-level)

Meet your team

The central Accessibility and Inclusive Design team is SAP's first point of contact for product accessibility. We are owning SAP's Software Accessibility Policy, support product teams and contribute to external expert groups.

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Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

Requisition ID: 423679 | Work Area: Software-User Experience | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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