[rehab] FW: Jobs at Amazon

[Dick Davis]

Hi,

Please take note of these positions at Amazon and apply if you can.  This
is so important I am posting it to all of nfbnet.

Dick Davis



*From:* President, National Federation of the Blind [mailto:
OfficeOfThePresident at nfb.org]
*Sent:* Tuesday, July 19, 2016 7:32 AM
*To:* Dick Davis
*Cc:* Lewis, Anil
*Subject:* Jobs at Amazon



Dick,



Here are some jobs to post to members. These could really have an impact on
accessibility at Amazon.



*From:* Korn, Peter [mailto:pkorn at lab126.com]
*Sent:* Monday, July 18, 2016 7:32 PM
*To:* Korn, Peter; President, National Federation of the Blind; Braun,
Beth; Mason, Amy; Sidhu,Mehgan
*Cc:* Bartoli, Diane; Bangs, Jon; Angilivelil, Aby; Tostenrude, Nick;
Agarwal, Rohit; Mittal, Pranav; Mason, Shane; Roth, Robert; Jordan, Josiah;
Ray, Chris
*Subject:* My action item: URL for our open accessibility engineering/QA
positions [was Re: NFB/Amazon Education - Collaborative Session/Conference
Call]



NFB colleagues,



One of my action items coming out of our meeting earlier today was to share
the URL for our open accessibility positions.  Please see
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/accessibility-internationalization
<https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/WD68BWCa21esp> which is a
special “landing page” for all of our open jobs on the Devices
Accessibility and Internationalization Team, which delivers VoiceView on
Fire Tables and Fire TV, magnification on Fire Tablets, and our other
accessibility features on FireOS devices.  It also
delivers internationalization support for those products, and while this
page lists jobs in both areas, at the moment 6 of the 8 open positions are
for accessibility.



Across all of Amazon, you can find positions that mention “accessibility”
with the URL https://www.amazon.jobs/en/search?base_query=accessibility
<https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/0JdxBeS5ZVRfX> That will include the 6
positions at the URL above, but also many in the website org., as well as
positions that aren’t full-time dedicated to accessibility but for which we
would like accessibility expertise.  That search term will also turn up
things related to things like “Access Management”, so candidates will need
to read through job titles & descriptions in order to ensure the position
is something they are interested in.  As an aside, that’s how I found my
job – I just did a search for “accessibility” on jobs.amazon.com while
making a purchase, and found the Accessibility Architect role that I’m now
in.





As I mentioned on our call, we already employ a number of blind folks on
this team, both in QA as well software development.  And we’d love to have
more!





Regards,



Peter