Senior Adobe Experience Manager; AEM Author & Digital Asset Management; DAM Consultant

Job Description :
Senior Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Author & Digital Asset Management (DAM) Consultant

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Author & DAM Consultant with 10+ years of experience managing enterprise digital experiences. This role is ideal for a highly detail-oriented professional with deep expertise in AEM Sites, a strong understanding of enterprise content management, and the ability to deliver high-quality, optimized digital experiences at scale.

The successful candidate will partner closely with Marketing, Creative, UX, Development, QA, Product, and Analytics teams to deliver engaging, accessible, and brand-compliant web experiences while serving as a subject matter expert in AEM authoring, content operations, and website governance. This individual will be responsible not only for executing authoring activities, but also for establishing standards, improving operational efficiency, maintaining website content quality, and ensuring content initiatives are successfully delivered from planning through publication.

Key Responsibilities

AEM Authoring & Content Operations

• Serve as the senior AEM authoring expert, providing guidance on advanced authoring capabilities, best practices, content governance standards, publishing workflows, and operational processes.
• Author, edit, optimize, QA, publish, and maintain enterprise websites using Adobe Experience Manager Sites.
• Translate Figma, Adobe XD, or other design mockups into production-ready AEM pages using existing components while ensuring pixel-accurate implementation.
• Ensure all content adheres to established governance standards, accessibility requirements, SEO guidelines, metadata frameworks, tagging structures, and brand requirements prior to publication.
• Perform comprehensive quality assurance to ensure content accuracy, visual consistency, functionality, and cross-device compatibility prior to publication.
• Manage complex content updates across multiple websites and business initiatives while balancing competing priorities and meeting aggressive deadlines.
• Maintain visibility into active content initiatives, dependencies, timelines, risks, and readiness status, proactively escalating issues that could impact delivery.
• Collaborate with UX designers, developers, product owners, marketers, and QA teams to support new features, component enhancements, and content initiatives.
• Participate in requirements gathering and provide recommendations on content strategy, authoring workflows, governance practices, component usage, and platform capabilities.

Website Governance & Health

• Own authoring governance standards, publishing procedures, metadata requirements, tagging standards, content quality controls, and content lifecycle best practices.
• Conduct periodic audits of website content, metadata, tagging, and publishing practices to ensure compliance with established standards.
• Monitor website content health and identify opportunities to improve content quality, consistency, discoverability, operational efficiency, and user experience.
• Establish and maintain documentation, governance standards, training materials, and authoring best practices.
• Ensure content is configured to support searchability, discoverability, SEO performance, content reuse, and AI/LLM content retrieval.

Partner & Vendor Management

• Serve as the primary point of contact for Gradial and other authoring partners, providing training, guidance, quality oversight, and workflow support.
• Train, support, and collaborate with internal authors, agency partners, and Gradial resources to ensure consistent application of authoring standards, publishing workflows, metadata requirements, quality controls, and content governance practices.
• Review work produced by internal and external resources and provide feedback to ensure adherence to established standards and best practices.

Release Readiness & Delivery

• Partner with Development and QA teams to ensure content…