SR. AEM PRODUCT ANALYST

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We are seeking a highly skilled Senior AEM Functional Analyst with 6-10 years of experience in business analysis, product delivery, and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). This role serves as the critical link between business stakeholders and technology teams, translating business objectives into scalable digital solutions using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as a Cloud Service.

The ideal candidate brings strong expertise in AEM Sites, content authoring, Agile product delivery, and digital experience platforms, along with a growing understanding of AI and Generative AI technologies that enhance content management, personalization, and customer experiences.

You will work closely with Product Owners, business stakeholders, UX teams, content authors, architects, developers, and QA teams to drive successful delivery from discovery through production release.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Owners, business stakeholders, UX teams, content authors, and engineering teams to gather, analyze, and document business and functional requirements.
• Translate business needs into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and detailed functional specifications.
• Manage and refine the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business priorities, strategic objectives, and roadmap initiatives.
• Lead backlog grooming, sprint refinement sessions, and support sprint planning activities within Agile delivery teams.
• Collaborate with engineering and content teams to design and deliver scalable content management and digital experience solutions.
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions and drive alignment across product, technology, architecture, security, and QA teams.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect triage, release readiness activities, production validation, and post-release support.
• Monitor dependencies, risks, issues, and delivery progress using Jira and Confluence.
• Act as a trusted advisor on AEM capabilities, best practices, and digital experience solutions.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI and Generative AI capabilities to improve content creation, content governance, personalization, workflow automation, search experiences, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with business and technical teams to define, evaluate, and prioritize AI-driven use cases that deliver measurable business value.

Required Qualifications

□ 6-10 years of experience as a Functional Analyst, Business Analyst, Product Analyst, or a similar role.

□ Hands-on experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as a Cloud Service.

□ Strong knowledge of AEM Sites, content authoring, and content lifecycle management.

□ Experience working with:

· AEM Components

· Editable Templates

· Content Fragments

· Experience Fragments

· Digital Assets

· Workflows

· Tagging

· Publishing Processes

· User Roles and Permissions

· Proven ability to translate business requirements into functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and solution designs.

· Experience managing product backlogs, supporting roadmap planning, and driving business-value-based prioritization.

· Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, Scrum practices, and participation in Agile ceremonies.

· Experience managing stories, defects, dependencies, and release activities using Jira and Confluence.

· Experience working effectively with business stakeholders, product teams, developers, architects, QA teams, and content authors.

· Experience supporting UAT, production validation, release management, and deployment readiness activities.

· Experience participating in AI, Generative AI, Machine Learning, intelligent automation, or digital transformation initiatives.

· Understanding of how AI technologies can enhance content management, personalization, customer engagement, workflow automation, and digital experiences.

· Excellent communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

· Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Certification.

· Experience with AEM Assets or enterprise Digital Asset Management (DAM) platforms.

· Experience with Adobe Experience Cloud products, including:

· Adobe Analytics

· Adobe Target

· Understanding of APIs, GraphQL, headless CMS architectures, and third-party integrations.

· Experience supporting multilingual, multisite, or multibrand AEM implementations.

· Knowledge of SEO, accessibility, content governance, analytics, personalization, and digital experience best practices.

· Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JSON.

· Experience supporting content migration, AEM modernization, cloud transformation, or digital transformation programs.

· Familiarity with prompt engineering, AI-assisted content generation, conversational AI, AI governance, and responsible AI practices.