Middle Product Designer Accessibility UbiSim - Contract

If you are passionate about driving meaningful change through education and healthcare innovation, we invite you to explore this opportunity to make a tangible impact with a mission-driven organization.

30 hours per week from start through the end of December, beginning as soon as possible.

Remote, must be based within CET ±1.

Responsibilities

• Produce remediation designs in Figma for each audit finding, covering semantic structure, keyboard operability, focus order and visibility, contrast, form labelling and error handling, status messaging, and non-text alternatives.

• Design and document every relevant state: default, hover, focus, active, disabled, loading, error, and empty. States are the deliverable, not an afterthought.

• Write implementation-ready specifications an engineer can build from unaided, including focus behaviour, accessible names, reading order, and expected assistive technology announcements.

• Resolve remediation at the component level rather than screen by screen, and propose design system changes where a fix should apply across surfaces.

• Flag where a fix requires a change to interaction design rather than a surface-level correction, and raise the tradeoff rather than resolving it silently.

• Release remediation in reviewed batches so engineering can start before the full set is complete, sequenced with Product and Engineering by severity, effort, and dependency.

• Keep a traceable record from audit finding to design decision to specification, and support design QA on implemented work.

Competencies & Skills

• 3 to 5 years of product design experience, with demonstrable accessibility work on complex web products.

• Highly detail-oriented and systematic. You work through a long findings list without losing precision on item forty, and your specifications are consistent, complete, and unambiguous.

• Strong interaction design skills applied to dense, multi-step, configuration-heavy interfaces.

• Familiar with assistive technology behaviour and able to design with it in mind.

• Comfortable working within an established design system and extending it.

• Self-sufficient. You drive the work forward against a fixed end date and escalate blockers rather than absorbing them.

• Proficient in Figma. This is a design role; no front-end implementation is required.

Great to Have

• Working knowledge of WCAG 2.1 AA at the success criterion level, and familiarity with ARIA patterns.

• Experience contributing accessibility patterns or documentation to a design system, or with VPAT or ACR documentation.

• EdTech or healthcare background, or familiarity with authoring and content management tools.

About us

Labster's mission is to captivate learners and dismantle barriers with immersive technology to improve lives.

Our immersive learning platforms for STEM education and nursing simulation allow students to engage in real-world scenarios safely and repeatedly, building confidence and competence in their learning journey.

Labster was named one of the World's Top EdTech Companies of 2024 by TIME and Statista. And UbiSim, our virtual reality (VR) nursing simulation product, was recognized as a TIME Best Invention of 2024.

Labster is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer.

Labster is committed to select the best available candidate for every open position, regardless of sex, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, marital status, ethnic origin, age, disability or geographical location. At the same time, we aim to provide all team members with the opportunity to develop long- term careers appropriate to their abilities and ambitions. Labster is also committed to ensuring that recruitment procedures are fair, objective, impartial, transparent, and are applied consistently.