Digital Product Owner – Accessibility

Digital Product Owner – Accessibility
Location: Three Nationwide Plaza, Columbus, OH 43215 (Hybrid 2 days in office)
Duration: 12-month contract (Potential contract to hire in 2026)
Start Date: 10/27/2025, upon completion of new hire onboarding
Pay Rate: $46.00/hr. on W2
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision.

We are seeking a passionate and experienced Accessibility Product Owner to lead the charge in making our digital products and documents more inclusive for individuals with disabilities. This role will focus on driving accessibility improvements across web, mobile, and PDF experiences, ensuring compliance with accessibility standards and enhancing usability for all users.

The Accessibility Product Owner will partner closely with the Product Manager to align team priorities with broader business goals, manage and prioritize the accessibility backlog, and collaborate across cross-functional teams including design, engineering, and compliance. This role requires a strong understanding of accessibility best practices (WCAG, ADA), digital product development, and user-centered design.

JOB SUMMARY:
Acts independently or as a member of a team providing business process management competency. Participates in major process modeling, analysis, and design efforts. Responsible for providing business performance management, organizational design, and business risk management capabilities to formulate pragmatic, forward facing, and actionable business transformation plans. Responsible for establishing a common understanding of the business environment in which a project (or solution) must be defined, designed, created deployed, used and supported. Requires in-depth understanding of business processes, systems, organizational structure, and industry requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and prioritize the accessibility backlog, balancing user needs, technical feasibility, and business impact.
• Collaborate with product managers to align accessibility initiatives with enterprise digital strategy. Work with designers, developers, and QA to ensure accessibility is embedded throughout the product lifecycle.
• Advocate for inclusive design and accessibility across the organization.
• Analyze accessibility audit results and user feedback to inform roadmap decisions.
• Support accessibility improvements in both digital interfaces and document formats (e.g., PDFs).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as a Product Owner or similar role in digital product development. Strong knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1+, ADA, Section 508).
• Familiarity with tools such as JIRA, Axe, WAVE, and screen readers (e.g., NVDA, JAWS). Ability to communicate the value of accessibility through data and user stories.
• Experience working in agile environments and managing cross-functional collaboration.
• . In-depth experience with process re-design methods (e.g., BPR, Six Sigma, TQM) and tools (e.g., Popkin, Proforma, IDS Scheer, Computas, MEGA)

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