Career Fulfillment & Culture

People come to work for Deque because of what we do: enable businesses and organizations to make their sites and apps accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities. The personal fulfillment employees feel here is unparalleled. In addition to the altruistic nature of our jobs, the organizational structure is extremely flat and welcoming. Women-owned and operated, Deque CEO Preety Kumar is internationally revered for her down-to-earth personality and work ethic. Deque's core values are central to our culture of customer satisfaction. Do you share them?
 

• Innovation with results that matter
• Deliver what you promise
• Can-do attitude
• Open, direct & respectful communications
• We care deeply
• We practice humility
   

At Deque, you’ll work with the best and brightest minds in the industry, sharing best practices, tackling new issues and uncovering new approaches. Accessibility Consultants at Deque also love their jobs because of the support systems in place.

Deque experts regularly contribute to W3C Accessibility Working Groups and collectively hold more CPACC, WAS, & CPWA certifications issued by the IAAP than any accessibility testing company in the world.

Position Description

Deque is seeking a hands-on, dynamic design leader to manage and build our User Experience team. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to design elegant, modern, and fully accessible web applications for millions of users worldwide. As a manager, in this role, you will oversee the work of a team of distributed designers. You will be responsible for ensuring that the team is working together to create cohesive, discoverable, easily usable UX/UI designs that leverage common design patterns and systems, look like a product family, and are easily implementable, working from the base of our current applications in an agile fashion.

As an individual contributor, in this role you will be conducting user research, ideating, prototyping and communicating designs to the product team and stakeholders—full lifecycle design.

Primary Responsibilities
 

• Works with senior leadership and stakeholders to refine and strategize around Deque’s UX Design vision in alignment with the business’ goals.
• Works cross-functionally with product, marketing, and executives to create excellent products using data-driven design strategy.
• Maintain product continuity by shepherding, contributing, and evolving Deque’s fully accessible pattern library.
• Evangelize the UX discipline and tenants of accessibility internally and externally.
• Design and deliver high-quality wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups based on Deque’s pattern library.
• Work closely with product management to distill market, user, and usability research into tangible and actionable strategies and designs.
• Conduct user research, discovery, and evaluate user feedback.
• Collaborate with developers and product managers to define complex features and interactions and implement designs.
• Work with development and QA to ensure that features are implemented with 100% fidelity to the designs and pattern library
   

Requirements
 

• Portfolio demonstrating breadth and depth of work experience as a UX practitioner.
• Ability to succinctly communicate design concepts and design intent to colleagues at all levels of the organization.
• Proficiency designing low to high fidelity prototypes with a variety of tools.
• Experience designing web applications--preference to development-based tools and B2Bhtha.
• Experience employing and training others on proper user research techniques - interviewing users, designing surveys, mental modeling, moderating usability tests, etc.
• Attention to detail at all levels of research, design and development.
   

About Deque

Deque (pronounced dee-cue) is a web accessibility software and services company, and our mission is Digital Equality. We believe everyone, regardless of their ability, should have equal access to the information, services, applications, and everything else on the web.

We work with enterprise-level businesses and organizations to ensure that their sites and mobile apps are accessible. With over 475,000 extensions installed and over 5,000 audit projects completed, Deque is the industry standard. Join our growing family as we work to make the web a better place for everyone.

Job Location
 

• Remote
   

How to Apply
 

• Apply by submitting your resume and a cover letter. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.
   

In your cover letter
 

• Explain your interest in joining Deque and how you align with our Core Values
• Depict key attributes that differentiate you as a candidate
   

Deque is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities. Reference and background checks will be required. The expected salary range is 110K - 150K but is subject to change based on the skills, abilities, and experience of each candidate. The values listed are not intended to guarantee a salary for candidates or current employees.

Thank you for your interest in joining our exciting company!

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