Elsevier
Senior Director of UX Operations & Accessibility
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Raleigh, NC
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Full-Time
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$118K - $220K
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Operations
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April 13th, 2026
SaaS
WCAG
Edtech.com's Summary
Elsevier Limited Company is hiring a Senior Director of UX Operations & Accessibility. The role involves leading the global strategy, governance, and operational excellence of UX across Elsevier's product ecosystem, scaling UX operations, advancing accessibility maturity, and ensuring inclusive user experiences for researchers, clinicians, educators, and students worldwide. This leader works across design, product, engineering, compliance, and business strategy to align UX practices with the company's mission to advance knowledge and improve outcomes.
Highlights
- Lead and define global UX operations strategy across multiple business units and product lines.
- Establish standardized UX processes including research intake, design workflows, tooling, and governance.
- Drive adoption and governance of enterprise design systems to ensure cross-platform consistency.
- Oversee UX resource planning, vendor management, and budget control.
- Develop UX metrics, dashboards, and KPIs aligned with business and product goals.
- Own and drive enterprise accessibility strategy compliant with global standards such as WCAG, ADA, and EN 301 549.
- Lead accessibility audits, remediation actions, and compliance monitoring.
- Build scalable UX research operations including participant management and insights repositories.
- Requires 12+ years in UX, design operations or digital experience leadership and 5+ years leading global, multidisciplinary UX teams.
- Expertise in accessibility standards, design systems, SaaS or digital publishing environments, UX research methodologies, and experience influencing senior stakeholders and driving change in global matrix organizations.
- Salary range: $118,300 - $219,800 (U.S. National Base Pay). Geographic differentials may apply.
- Clients include researchers, clinicians, librarians, educators, students, and institutions worldwide.
Senior Director of UX Operations & Accessibility Full Description
Ready to scale UX operations and accessibility at enterprise level—and shape how millions access knowledge globally?
Do you want to lead global UX, accessibility, and design operations at the point where strategy, impact, and inclusion meet?
About our Team:
The Global UX team at Elsevier is a diverse, multidisciplinary group of designers, researchers, and content specialists dedicated to creating intuitive, impactful experiences for customers around the world. We work at the intersection of user needs, business strategy, and technology to shape products and services that help researchers, clinicians, educators, and institutions make better decisions faster. Our team partners closely with product, engineering, data, and commercial leaders to turn complex challenges into simple, trusted experiences. We value curiosity, collaboration, and evidence-based design, and we are committed to raising the quality and consistency of experiences across Elsevier's global portfolio. Joining the team means helping define the future of knowledge, insight, and decision-making at scale.
About the role:
The Senior Director of UX Operations & Accessibility will lead the strategy, governance, and operational excellence of UX across Elsevier's global product ecosystem. This role is responsible for scaling UX operations, advancing enterprise accessibility maturity, and ensuring inclusive, research informed user experiences across platforms used by researchers, clinicians, librarians, educators, and students worldwide.
Operating at the intersection of design, product, engineering, compliance, and business strategy, this leader ensures UX practices are efficient, measurable, inclusive, and aligned with Elsevier's mission to advance knowledge and improve outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Define and implement a global UX Operations strategy across business units and product lines
- Establish standardised UX processes for research intake, design workflows, tooling, and governance
- Drive adoption and governance of enterprise design systems and cross platform consistency
- Lead UX resource planning, vendor management, and budget oversight
- Develop UX metrics, dashboards, and KPIs aligned to product and business outcomes
- Champion UX operational maturity across distributed, global UX teams
- Own the enterprise accessibility strategy aligned with global standards (WCAG, ADA, EN 301 549)
- Lead accessibility audits, remediation initiatives, and ongoing compliance monitoring
- Build scalable UX research operations including participant management, tools, and insights repositories
- Act as an executive advocate for user centered, inclusive, and ethical design across the organization
Requirements:
- 12+ years' experience in UX, Design Operations, or Digital Experience leadership
- 5+ years' experience leading global, multidisciplinary UX teams
- Proven experience building and scaling UX Operations functions
- Deep expertise in accessibility standards and regulatory requirements
- Experience working within enterprise SaaS, digital publishing, health tech, or data driven environments
- Strong understanding of design systems and scalable UX governance models
- Demonstrated ability to align UX metrics with business and product impact
- Executive level communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Strong knowledge of UX research methodologies and experimentation frameworks
- Experience driving organizational change in complex, matrixed global organizations
About the business:
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. What you do every day will help advance science and healthcare to advance human progress.
U.S. National Base Pay Range: $118,300 - $219,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.
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