Product Manager (Adobe Experience Engineering & Platforms) at DEPT®
United States
$134.7k - $190k
<p><strong>WHY DEPT®?</strong></p> <p>We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA.</p> <p>We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter.</p> <p>At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build.</p> <p><strong>THE ROLE</strong></p> <p>We are seeking an experienced and strategic Product Manager, Experience Engineering & Platforms to join DEPT®'s growing Adobe practice in North America. In this senior consulting role, you will lead product management and roadmap strategy across multiple interconnected agile workstreams for enterprise clients modernizing their digital experience foundations on Adobe technology. You are the person who holds program-level coherence together — translating a client's 12-to-24-month platform vision into sequenced delivery milestones, managing dependencies across teams building on AEM Sites, Edge Delivery Services, and Adobe Commerce, and ensuring that every sprint brings measurable progress toward stated business outcomes. At this career stage, you are not just running a backlog; you are running the room with Directors and VPs, negotiating scope, and making the architectural tradeoffs legible to business stakeholders who care about conversion rates and content velocity, not component libraries.</p> <p>The clients you will serve are typically large enterprises — global retailers, financial services brands, media companies, and healthcare organizations — who have outgrown their monolithic CMS or commerce platform and are investing in a composable, headless architecture to regain speed and flexibility. They come to DEPT® because their legacy AEM implementation has become a bottleneck, their site performance is eroding paid media ROI, or they need to scale content operations across dozens of markets without proportionally scaling headcount. You will produce the artifacts that make transformation concrete: platform architecture assessments that map current-state constraints to future-state capabilities, migration roadmaps with phased business cases, EDS implementation plans that quantify Core Web Vitals improvements, Commerce integration strategies that connect content and transaction, and performance optimization playbooks that connect technical outcomes to revenue impact. You will run executive steering committees, mentor product owners embedded in individual delivery teams, and track value realization across the program from kickoff through go-live and beyond.</p> <p><strong>WHAT YOU'LL DO</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Lead Program-Level Roadmap Strategy:</strong> Develop and maintain 12-to-24-month product roadmaps across multiple agile teams working on AEM Sites, Edge Delivery Services, and Adobe Commerce implementations — sequencing platform migrations, feature buildouts, and integration milestones in a way that balances business value delivery with technical risk management.</li> <li><strong>Own Senior Stakeholder Relationships:</strong> Run executive steering committees and maintain ongoing alignment with Director and VP-level business sponsors, translating complex headless architecture decisions and composable platform tradeoffs into clear business language tied to outcomes like content velocity, time-to-market, and conversion rate improvement.</li> <li><strong>Drive Value Realization and ROI Tracking:</strong> Define measurable success criteria at program inception — Core Web Vitals benchmarks, content publishing throughput, campaign activation speed — and build the reporting cadences that surface progress against those metrics to clients using Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target data as the foundation for ongoing prioritization decisions.</li> <li><strong>Manage Cross-Team Dependencies and Scope:</strong> Identify and resolve dependencies between AEM Sites authoring teams, EDS front-end delivery squads, Commerce integration workstreams, and client-side technology and marketing operations teams — negotiating scope changes with stakeholders when discovery surfaces complexity that was not visible at contract, and keeping delivery on track without sacrificing program integrity.</li> <li><strong>Produce and Govern Platform Strategy Deliverables:</strong> Author and maintain the consulting artifacts that anchor client decisions: platform architecture assessments, headless CMS strategy documents, composable architecture blueprints, AEM-to-EDS migration roadmaps, and Adobe Commerce integration strategies — ensuring these documents remain living references that evolve with the program rather than artifacts that go stale after kickoff.</li> </ul> <p><strong>WHAT YOU BRING</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>6–10 Years of Product Management Experience in Complex Digital Programs:</strong> You have managed products or programs at enterprise scale, ideally in a consulting or agency context where you were accountable to external clients rather than internal stakeholders. You know how to run a discovery, write a business case, and hold a program together through the ambiguity of a platform migration or a multi-phased commerce re-platform.</li> <li><strong>Deep Domain Expertise in Headless and Composable Architecture:</strong> You understand the architectural patterns that define modern digital experience platforms — headless CMS, API-first commerce, CDN-level personalization, and composable DXP strategy — well enough to challenge vendor recommendations, identify integration risks during scoping, and help clients make durable platform decisions rather than chasing short-term vendor incentives.</li> <li><strong>Adobe Product Fluency:</strong> You have hands-on familiarity with the Adobe DXP stack from a product strategy and program delivery perspective. Specifically: you have led or closely supported programs built on <strong>Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Sites</strong>, including both traditional and headless delivery patterns; you understand how <strong>Edge Delivery Services (EDS)</strong> changes the authoring and delivery model and can articulate its performance and operational implications to business stakeholders; you have worked with <strong>Adobe Commerce</strong> in an enterprise context and understand its integration surface with content systems; you are conversant in <strong>Adobe Analytics</strong> and <strong>Adobe Target</strong> as the data and experimentation layer that informs roadmap prioritization; and you understand how <strong>Adobe CDN</strong> fits into a performance and caching strategy for high-traffic properties.</li> <li><strong>Senior Stakeholder Management and Executive Communication:</strong> You are comfortable in the room with Directors, VPs, and program management leads — not just presenting, but facilitating alignment when business and technology priorities are in tension. You can write a crisp executive summary, run a steering committee that does not waste anyone's time, and deliver difficult scope or timeline conversations without damaging the client relationship.</li> <li><strong>Cross-Functional Program Leadership:</strong> You have experience coordinating across multiple delivery teams with distinct technical disciplines — front-end engineering, platform engineering, content operations, analytics implementation — and you know how to build the dependency maps, RACI structures, and escalation paths that keep a multi-workstream program moving without creating organizational gridlock.</li> </ul> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">WHAT DO WE OFFER</span></strong></p> <p>We are a collaborative, open-door, best-idea-wins environment that fosters personal and company growth and has fun doing it. Here is a snapshot of our benefits package:</p> <ul> <li>Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage</li> <li>401k plan, plus matching</li> <li>PTO</li> <li>Paid Company Holidays</li> <li>Parental Leave</li> </ul> <p><strong>WE SUPPORT YOU BEING YOU: </strong></p> <p>DEPT® is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We believe our work is its best when our people feel safe and free to be themselves. We’re committed to an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment and selection process and workplace, regardless of anyone’s identity, background, beliefs, lifestyle or disabilities. So tell us about any accommodations you need. It’s totally confidential and only used to make sure you feel fully supported at every step. </p> <p>DEPT® participates in E-Verify, meaning your Form I-9 information will be sent to the federal government to confirm you are authorized to work in the U.S. </p> <p>We are a<a href="https://www.deptagency.com/the-good-company/becoming-a-good-company/"> B Corp-certified</a> company passionate about<a href="https://www.deptagency.com/the-good-company/"> purpose-driven work</a>. Our hope is that you can feel good about the contributions DEPT® is making to the world and we always have an open door for your ideas in making the world a better place. </p> <p>DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Coach, eBay, and OpenAI.</p> <p><a href="http://www.deptagency.com">Learn more about DEPT®</a></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION</strong></p> <p><em>At DEPT®, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives.</em></p> <p><em>Not sure you meet all qualifications? Apply, and let us decide! Research shows that women and members of underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs when they think they may not meet every requirement, when in fact they do. We believe in giving everyone a fair chance to shine. </em></p> <p><em>We also encourage you to reach out to us and discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process and your time with us.</em></p> <p><em>Want to know more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion? Check out our efforts</em><a href="https://www.deptagency.com/the-good-company/"><em> </em><em>here</em></a>.<br><br>#LI-Remote</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>The anticipated salary range for this position is listed below. Salary is based on a range of factors that include relevant experience, expertise,<strong> physical location</strong>, and organizational impact. This is based on a 40-hour workweek and leveling. Keep in mind, we’re flexible.</p></div><div class="title">US Remote Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$134,700</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$190,000 USD</span></div></div></div>
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