Head of Accessibility Engineering & Standards

**Position Overview**

Guardian’s Accessibility Centre of Excellence is chartered to be proactive, authoritative, and forward-looking — not a late-stage audit function. This role owns enterprise digital accessibility standards and governance across all surfaces, with cross-org authority that extends beyond org boundaries. Both strategic and deeply technical, this leader influences design, engineering, and governance decisions at the point where they are made — not after they ship. As Guardian builds AI-native experiences, the standards for agentic accessibility are still being written. The person in this role will help write them.

**You Will**

+ Own and evolve enterprise digital accessibility standards — conformance requirements, governance, and continuous improvement across web, mobile, and agentic surfaces.
+ Lead the Accessibility Centre of Excellence as a governance function with real authority — release gates, conformance reviews, conditional approvals...