Senior Product Owner, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

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About us

Appnovation is the AI Product Company. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with teams around the world, Appnovation builds AI products, delivers enterprise AI and digital solutions, and co-invests with clients to bring new AI products to market.

Open source has been the foundation of Appnovation's work since 2007, and it remains the foundation underneath every AI product the company builds today. Appnovation teams work with organizations in highly regulated industries, including global leaders such as Pfizer, Google and AstraZeneca, to help them adopt AI they can govern and own.

About the Role

As a Senior Product Owner, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), you will own the product vision, strategy and roadmap for the AEM platform at the heart of a global pharmaceutical client’s Content Supply Chain. The platform brings together Adobe Workfront, AEM Assets and Adobe Express to help marketers and agency partners create, review, approve, distribute and reuse content faster and in a compliant way. You will sit between the business and technology teams, working with brand, marketing operations, creative and agency stakeholders, delivery leads, engineering squads and Adobe’s product teams. We are looking for someone with strong business sense and a deep functional understanding of the Adobe ecosystem who can turn business needs into a clear, prioritized backlog and deliver measurable value in a regulated environment where medical, legal and regulatory (MLR) review and brand governance shape how work gets done.

What will you do

• Platform strategy and roadmap: Drive the AEM platform strategy, set the product vision, goals and success measures (KPIs/OKRs), and build multi-quarter roadmaps with the business that balance new features, enhancements, technical debt and Adobe releases and upgrades.
• Adobe innovation: Keep up with where Adobe is heading (AEM as a Cloud Service, AEM Assets, Adobe Express, Workfront and generative AI such as Adobe Firefly) and spot where new capabilities can add real business value.
• Solution options: Weigh configure vs. customize vs. buy, leaning on out-of-the-box Adobe capabilities where they meet the need and keep long-term cost down.
• Business partnership: Act as the main link between business stakeholders, delivery teams and Adobe, run discovery sessions and workshops with marketers, agencies, marketing operations and MLR reviewers, and build consensus when priorities compete across brands, markets and functions.
• Communication: Share the roadmap, priorities, release plans, status, risks and trade-offs clearly with every audience, including senior leadership.
• Backlog ownership: Own and groom the product backlog in Jira, prioritize epics and features by value against effort, risk and dependencies, and write clear epics and user stories with business context and acceptance criteria.
• Agile delivery: Take part in PI and sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews and demos, and accept comple

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re collaborative, low-ego and accountable, and build trusted relationships across business, technology and vendor teams

• You engage and build positive internal and external client relationships, while managing multiple initiatives, often with competing priorities
• You have solid analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills, and are comfortable working through ambiguity
• You have strong self-initiative, passion, interpersonal, oral and written communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work, influence and make an impact in a cross-functional environment with all levels of the organization
• You are responsive and thrive in a fast-paced diverse high-performance environment with rapidly changing business needs
• You actively seek out things outside your comfort zone with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies
• You have prior experience in consulting
• Prior experience and connections in the Life Sciences industry is preferred

Here are a few more reasons why you should apply:

• Work-life Balance
• Lots of opportunities for personal and professional growth
• Health Benefits Package
• Mental Health Support
• Personal Days Off
• Fertility and Menopause Leave
• Fitness Allowance
• D,E&I Initiatives
• And much more...

Thank you for your interest in a career with Appnovation Technologies! Please note that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

At Appnovation, we recognize that diverse teams are the strongest teams. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is not only something that we embrace - we celebrate it! We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we encourage applicants from all backgrounds, lived experiences and industries to apply. Come join us at Appnovation, and learn more about how we stay true to our company values as we build better lives through better digital.

Accommodations are available upon request throughout the recruitment process.