Senior Adobe DAM Consultant

Job summary

Design, implement, and optimize enterprise Adobe AEM Assets/DAM solutions, including architecture, metadata, taxonomy, governance, workflows, Dynamic Media, and asset lifecycle management. Integrate DAM with retail and marketing platforms, support legacy asset migration, troubleshoot ecosystem issues, and provide technical guidance to implementation teams.

Job details

Title: Senior Adobe DAM Consultant Location: Canada (Remote 100%) Duration: Contract Job Description: We are seeking a Senior Adobe DAM Consultant to design, implement, and optimize enterprise Digital Asset Management solutions for a large retail environment. The consultant will work closely with business, marketing, eCommerce, creative, and technology teams to establish scalable asset management capabilities supporting digital commerce and omnichannel experiences. Key Responsibilities Lead the design and implementation of Adobe AEM Assets / Adobe DAM solutions. Define DAM architecture, asset hierarchy, folder structures, metadata schemas, taxonomy, tagging, and governance standards. Configure and optimize asset ingestion, approval, publishing, archival, and lifecycle workflows. Design scalable solutions for managing product images, videos, campaign assets, brand content, and other digital assets. Integrate Adobe DAM with eCommerce platforms, PIM, CMS, CDN, marketing platforms, and downstream digital channels. Implement and optimize Dynamic Media, renditions, asset transformations, and delivery capabilities. Partner with retail business and marketing teams to translate DAM requirements into technical solutions. Support asset migration from legacy repositories into Adobe DAM, including metadata mapping and validation. Establish DAM best practices around permissions, versioning, search, reuse, governance, and asset lifecycle management. Troubleshoot performance, integration, workflow, and asset delivery issues across the DAM ecosystem. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development and implementation teams. Required Skills 8+ years of overall experience with strong hands-on expertise in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). 4+ years of strong experience with AEM Assets / Adobe DAM. Strong knowledge of metadata schemas, taxonomy, tagging, asset workflows, permissions, and governance. Experience with AEM as a Cloud Service and enterprise-scale DAM implementations. Hands-on knowledge of Dynamic Media, Content Fragments, APIs, and Adobe Experience Cloud integrations. Experience integrating DAM with PIM, eCommerce, CMS, CDN, or marketing technology platforms. Understanding of asset migration, bulk ingestion, rendition management, and digital asset lifecycle. Excellent stakeholder communication and consulting skills. Retail Experience Preferred Candidates should ideally have experience supporting retail or eCommerce DAM ecosystems, including: Product photography and product asset management SKU/product-to-asset associations Seasonal and promotional campaigns Omnichannel content distribution PIM/DAM/eCommerce integrations High-volume asset ingestion and publishing Brand and digital content governance Nice to Have Adobe Professional / Expert certifications Experience with Adobe Workfront / Workfront Fusion Experience with headless/content API architectures Exposure to large-scale DAM modernization or migration programs Experience working with global retail brands

What you’ll do

Design, implement, and optimize enterprise Adobe AEM Assets/DAM solutions, including architecture, metadata, taxonomy, governance, workflows, Dynamic Media, and asset lifecycle management. Integrate DAM with retail and marketing platforms, support legacy asset migration, troubleshoot ecosystem issues, and provide technical guidance to implementation teams.

Requirements

Requires 8+ years of overall AEM experience, including 4+ years with AEM Assets/Adobe DAM, and hands-on expertise in enterprise-scale implementations, AEM as a Cloud Service, Dynamic Media, APIs, and platform integrations. Candidates should have strong knowledge of metadata, taxonomy, workflows, governance, and asset migration, with excellent consulting and stakeholder communication skills; retail or e-commerce experience is preferred.

Listed skills

• Adobe · Preferred
• Consultant · Preferred
• Technical · Preferred
• management · Preferred
• Asset Management · Preferred
• Communication · Preferred
• Teams · Preferred
• Communication Skills · Preferred
• Development · Preferred
• Integration · Preferred
• Integrations · Preferred
• Mapping · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Adobe Experience Manager
• AEM Assets
• Adobe DAM Architecture
• Metadata Schemas
• Taxonomy and Tagging
• Asset Workflows
• DAM Governance
• Dynamic Media
• Content Fragments
• APIs
• Asset Migration
• PIM Integration
• E-Commerce Integration
• CMS Integration
• CDN Integration
• Stakeholder Communication

Job areas

• Technology
• Consulting
• Retail
• Software
• Marketing