Senior Product Owner, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

Appnovation Technologies•New York, NY

About The Position

Appnovation is hiring a Senior Product Owner to own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for an Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) platform supporting a global pharmaceutical client’s Content Supply Chain. The platform connects Adobe Workfront, AEM Assets, and Adobe Express to help marketers and agency partners create, review, approve, distribute, and reuse content efficiently and compliantly. The role bridges business and technology teams, working with brand, marketing operations, creative, agency, delivery, engineering, and Adobe stakeholders in a regulated environment shaped by medical, legal, and regulatory review and brand governance. The Product Owner will define platform goals and success measures, build multi-quarter roadmaps, and translate business needs into a prioritized Jira backlog. They will guide solution choices, support Agile delivery, shape integrations and end-to-end content processes, and partner with Adobe and delivery teams to ensure solutions meet quality, validation, privacy, security, and governance standards. The role also focuses on user-centered design, adoption, and measuring outcomes such as content cycle time, asset reuse, platform adoption, user satisfaction, and cost per asset. The position requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, at least seven years in product management, product ownership, business analysis, or digital platform roles, and at least three years as a Product Owner for AEM or a comparable DAM or content platform. Candidates must be based in the United States and able to work Eastern Time hours. Pharmaceutical, life sciences, or other regulated-industry experience is preferred.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Marketing, or equivalent experience.
At least 7 years of experience in product management, product ownership, business analysis, or digital platform roles.
At least 3 years as a Product Owner for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) or a comparable DAM or content platform.
Strong functional knowledge of AEM Assets, including metadata schemas and taxonomy, tagging and Smart Tags, folder structures and permissions, workflows, templates and components, Content Fragments, Dynamic Media, renditions, and asset distribution such as Brand Portal or Content Hub.
Working knowledge of Adobe Express, including brand kits, locked and editable templates, and AEM Assets integration; and Adobe Workfront, including portfolios, programs, projects, request queues, custom forms, proofing, approvals, and AEM integration.
Proven experience building and communicating product roadmaps in partnership with business stakeholders.
Hands-on experience in Agile (Scrum or SAFe), writing epics and user stories, and managing Jira backlogs.
Ability to prioritize based on value and effort and make clear trade-off decisions.
Experience working with software vendors or product partners; Adobe experience is ideal.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills.
Must be based in the United States and able to work Eastern Time hours.
Customer-first mindset and commitment to customer service.
Ability to translate between business language and technical detail and explain trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.
Understanding of marketing operations, budgets, ROI, and business drivers, with the ability to make product decisions that maximize business outcomes.
Collaborative, accountable approach and ability to build trusted relationships across business, technology, and vendor teams.
Ability to manage multiple initiatives and competing priorities, work through ambiguity, and make sound analytical and business decisions.
Strong initiative, interpersonal, oral and written communication, and collaboration skills; ability to influence across a cross-functional organization.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, diverse, high-performance environment with changing business needs and to learn new concepts, business models, and technologies.
Prior experience in consulting.

Nice To Haves

Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences, or another regulated industry, including familiarity with MLR review processes and tools such as Veeva Vault PromoMats.
Experience with AEM as a Cloud Service and Content Supply Chain or modular content initiatives.
Familiarity with generative AI content capabilities such as Adobe Firefly or Adobe GenStudio.
Adobe certifications, such as AEM or Workfront, and/or product ownership certifications such as CSPO or SAFe POPM.
Experience with Confluence, Miro, or similar collaboration tools.
MBA or advanced degree.
Prior experience and connections in the life sciences industry.

Responsibilities

Drive the AEM platform strategy; define product vision, goals, KPIs/OKRs, and multi-quarter roadmaps.
Monitor Adobe product developments, including AEM as a Cloud Service, AEM Assets, Adobe Express, Workfront, and generative AI, and identify opportunities to create business value.
Evaluate configure-versus-customize-versus-buy options, favoring out-of-the-box Adobe capabilities when appropriate.
Serve as the primary link among business stakeholders, delivery teams, and Adobe; lead discovery sessions and workshops and build consensus across competing priorities.
Communicate roadmap, priorities, release plans, status, risks, and trade-offs to stakeholders, including senior leadership.
Own and refine the Jira product backlog; prioritize epics and features by value, effort, risk, and dependencies; write epics and user stories with business context and acceptance criteria.
Participate in PI and sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and demos, and accept completed work against agreed criteria.
Shape end-to-end integration of AEM, Adobe Express, and Workfront across pharmaceutical content intake, briefing, creation, MLR review, approval, distribution, modular content reuse, and asset expiry.
Partner with architects on AEM integrations with Veeva Vault PromoMats, marketing automation, CRM, analytics, and agency tools.
Work with Adobe product, engineering, and Customer Success teams to raise product gaps, champion enhancement requests, and participate in early adopter or beta programs.
Partner with delivery leads, architects, and developers to ensure solutions follow AEM best practices and meet client standards for quality, system validation, data privacy, security, and content governance.
Use personas, journey and process mapping, and prototyping to design user-centered solutions.
Track outcomes including content cycle time, asset reuse, platform adoption, user satisfaction, and cost per asset; partner with change management and training teams to drive adoption.