Program Manager (contract)

Microsoft is seeking a dedicated professional to join their central accessibility team and drive meaningful impact across product development initiatives. This role involves ensuring products meet accessibility standards while managing projects and facilitating communication across teams to advance accessibility goals.

Responsibilities:

• Assist the central accessibility team with helping product teams meet and sustain accessibility standards and design user-friendly products
• Perform project management tasks, such as tracking outcomes, creating status updates, communicating with product teams, and overseeing successful completion of project objectives
• Answer questions from product teams about accessibility technical guidance, programs, processes, data, and policies
• Help improve the accessibility program data gathering and organization
• Help with documentation of accessibility program processes
• Review accessibility issues and test pass results to ensure they comply with established quality criteria
• Conduct data analysis and create visualization/dashboarding that leads to actionable recommendations

Requirements:

• 2-4 years of accessibility knowledge and experience
• 2-4 years of program management experience
• 2-4 years of prior experience interfacing with cross-functional teams
• Basic knowledge and application of accessibility best practices and standards
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills to effectively work with multiple stakeholders and teams to improve data and business processes
• Ability to juggle multiple assignments while having great attention to detail
• Project management skills and the ability to work efficiently and meet deadlines in the face of competing priorities in a highly collaborative agile environment
• A desire to grow and take on new challenges as they arise
• Experience with SharePoint and Power BI