Digital Delivery Manager – AEM
Posted:
18 August 2026 (22 hours ago)
Application Deadline:
15 November 2026
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Cheil USA/Digital Experience
Digital Delivery Manager - AEM
Project Manager Digital Experience
Location: Plano Texas
Working model: On-site at the Cheil office five days per week
Employment type: Full-time
Position Summary
Cheil USA is seeking an experienced client-facing and hands-on Digital Delivery Manager - AEM / PM Digital Experience to lead the delivery of web mobile app e-commerce product promotional and evergreen digital experiences across a complex enterprise ecosystem.
This role owns digital initiatives from intake and requirements validation through prioritization implementation quality assurance stakeholder approval publishing and post-launch validation. The role will coordinate business stakeholders content authors publishers creative teams QA product teams and technical partners across multiple locations and time zones.
This is not a purely administrative project-management position. The successful candidate must have practical Adobe Experience Manager experience and be comfortable working directly in AEM when needed. They should be able to navigate authoring environments review pages and components perform simple content updates validate staging output identify common content or configuration issues and support publishing activities.
The ideal candidate combines strong stakeholder leadership with practical digital-experience and publishing knowledge. They can challenge incomplete requirements translate business requests into executable plans establish priorities coordinate distributed teams identify risks and verify delivery outcomes directly rather than relying exclusively on status reports from others.
Key Responsibilities
Project and Stakeholder Leadership
- Serve as a primary operational partner to business marketing product e-commerce creative legal UX technology and delivery stakeholders across multiple business areas and workstreams.
- Own digital initiatives from intake and requirements validation through implementation QA stakeholder approval go-live and post-live validation.
- Translate business objectives creative assets product information and source materials into clear briefs acceptance criteria dependencies milestones owners and delivery plans.
- Evaluate incoming requests for completeness feasibility business impact urgency technical dependencies and operational risk.
- Challenge unclear incomplete conflicting or technically impractical requests and align stakeholders on an executable path before work begins.
- Facilitate decisions and communicate scope priorities risks trade-offs dependencies and required stakeholder actions.
- Build trusted stakeholder relationships while maintaining clear accountability realistic commitments and transparent communication.
- Provide concise decision-oriented status updates to stakeholders and leadership.
AEM and Digital Experience Operations
- Work directly in Adobe Experience Manager to review implementation and support delivery when operationally necessary.
- Navigate AEM authoring preview staging approval and publishing environments with confidence.
- Perform simple content and page updates when needed including copy links images metadata page properties and existing component configurations.
- Review the selection configuration placement and behavior of AEM components against approved requirements and creative references.
- Validate page structure content accuracy links assets metadata responsive behavior accessibility considerations and general publishing readiness.
- Support or execute publishing activities when necessary following the appropriate approval scheduling and release controls.
- Review digital experiences across relevant devices breakpoints markets and environments.
- Identify inconsistencies between approved requirements creative references authored content staging output and live behavior.
- Distinguish content-authoring issues from asset product-data workflow integration component or platform defects.
- Partner with AEM authors publishers QA product teams creative teams and technical teams to resolve content and platform-related issues.
- Support rollback hotfix and post-launch validation activities for urgent or business-critical releases.
Workflow and Delivery Management
- Manage JIRA-based workflows and operational queues maintaining accurate ownership status priority due dates dependencies comments blockers and decision records.
- Coordinate local nearshore offshore and global delivery teams across multiple time zones.
- Establish clear handoffs escalation paths acceptance criteria and delivery ownership across distributed teams.
- Balance competing requests using business impact launch criticality due dates capacity complexity readiness and operational risk.
- Monitor queue health ticket aging throughput SLA performance blocked work rework quality trends and launch readiness.
- Proactively identify risks remove blockers and escalate issues early with evidence impact options a recommended action and a clear owner.
- Lead recurring delivery reviews and ensure decisions and follow-up actions are documented.
- Ensure urgent requests do not bypass necessary requirement QA approval and release controls without a documented risk decision.
- Coordinate publishing windows launch dependencies contingency plans and post-launch support.
Quality and Continuous Improvement
- Uphold digital-experience quality standards covering content accuracy brand consistency UX responsive behavior accessibility legal requirements links assets functionality and platform behavior.
- Coordinate internal QA stakeholder review release approval publishing and post-live validation.
- Confirm that acceptance criteria are satisfied before recommending approval or publishing.
- Identify recurring process and quality gaps and implement practical improvements to intake routing documentation authoring QA workflow discipline and reporting.
- Use operational data stakeholder feedback and recurring delivery issues to recommend improvements.
- Contribute to publishing guidelines checklists workflow documentation onboarding materials and team enablement.
Required Qualifications
- 57 years of experience in digital project management digital experience delivery digital content operations web production e-commerce operations or a related field.
- Demonstrated ownership of complex digital initiatives from intake and requirements validation through publishing and post-launch validation.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience using Adobe Experience Manager in an authoring and publishing environment.
- Ability to independently navigate AEM review pages and components perform simple content changes validate staging output and support publishing activities.
- Practical understanding of AEM pages templates components assets links metadata page properties workflows preview/staging and publishing concepts.
- Strong client-facing and stakeholder-management experience including the ability to challenge assumptions negotiate priorities facilitate decisions and manage expectations.
- Advanced working knowledge of JIRA or a comparable enterprise workflow platform including queue management ticket hygiene dependencies reporting and escalation.
- Strong understanding of digital QA and release readiness including content accuracy links responsive behavior accessibility legal requirements analytics considerations and post-live validation.
- Experience coordinating distributed teams across multiple functions locations and time zones.
- Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to produce concise briefs status updates recommendations decisions and escalation messages.
- Strong organization attention to detail judgment and ownership in a fast-paced and matrixed environment.
- Ability to operate effectively in both structured and ambiguous situations without waiting for perfect information.
- Ability to work on-site at the Cheil office in Plano Texas five days per week.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting large-scale consumer electronics retail e-commerce or comparable enterprise digital ecosystems.
- Experience with AEM Sites Assets/DAM Content Fragments or comparable Adobe Experience Cloud capabilities.
- Experience supporting product-detail pages product-information workflows merchandising promotional campaigns mobile app content and evergreen digital experiences.
- Familiarity with product information management commerce platforms content fragments mobile CMS tools or product-data workflows.
- Experience working with content authors publishers QA creative UX product engineering and agency teams.
- Familiarity with Confluence operational dashboards capacity planning and delivery-performance metrics.
Success in This Role
- Business requests enter delivery with validated requirements clear acceptance criteria correct routing and realistic timelines.
- The PM can independently inspect AEM implementation and identify issues without relying exclusively on publishers or QA.
- Simple content changes and urgent operational interventions can be handled directly when appropriate.
- Stakeholders receive clear ownership timely decisions proactive risk communication and transparent trade-offs.
- Digital experiences are delivered accurately and on time with fewer preventable blockers handoff failures and quality-related rework cycles.
- Operational queues remain current visible and actionable across teams and time zones.
- Content UX functional and publishing issues are identified before launch whenever possible.
- Intake authoring QA publishing and reporting processes continuously improve.
Working Model
This is a full-time on-site position based at the Cheil office in Plano Texas. The Digital Delivery Manager AEM is expected to work in the office five days per week. The role regularly collaborates with teams in North America and other global time zones. Occasional schedule flexibility may be required for critical launches urgent escalations publishing windows or cross-region handoffs.
This is a full-time on-site position based at the Cheil office in Plano Texas. The Digital Delivery Manager AEM is expected to work in the office five days per week. The role regularly collaborates with teams in North America and other global time zones. Occasional schedule flexibility may be required for critical launches urgent escalations publishing windows or cross-region handoffs.
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
Cheil USA drives brand growth through creative strategy, digital innovation, and experiential solutions that create connected experiences that matter.