Administer and maintain the DAM system for optimal organization, accessibility, and performance.
Develop and enforce metadata schemas, taxonomy, tagging, and asset lifecycle policies.
Conduct audits to ensure asset accuracy, compliance, and relevance.
Enforce standards and escalate recurring governance issues.
Evolve metadata structures to meet changing business needs and improve discoverability.
Partner with the Web Team to manage asset deployment in AEM Sites.
Ensure assets are properly tagged, linked, and optimized for web use.
Troubleshoot AEM asset issues and support content authors and developers.
Align asset workflows with publishing timelines and content strategy.
Collaborate with global marketing and creative teams to ingest and catalog assets.
Train team members on DAM best practices and governance.
Facilitate efficient asset retrieval and reuse across campaigns.
Maintain rights management and usage guidelines for licensed and proprietary content.
Ensure adherence to brand and accessibility standards.
Monitor asset usage and governance compliance, recommending improvements as needed.

3+ years of experience managing a DAM system, preferably AEM within a creative or marketing environment.
Proficiency in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), especially in asset management and site integration.
Strong understanding of metadata schema design, taxonomy, and digital asset workflows.
Experience working cross-functionally with creative, marketing, and web teams.
Excellent organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Familiarity with digital rights management, accessibility standards, and brand governance.
Experience with AEM Sites and/or AEM Assets module (professional certification highly preferred).
Knowledge of UX/UI principles and web publishing workflows.
Familiarity with project management tools (e.g. Workfront, Jira) and creative platforms (e.g. Adobe Creative Cloud).
Basic understanding of HTML/CSS is a plus.

Digital Asset Management Specialist, GCC Africa

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