Digital Content Author & Publisher

Job Summary

The Specialist, Digital Content Author Publisher will create, update, validate, schedule, and publish web content using Adobe Experience Manager and related digital tools. The role combines hands-on content production with publishing operations, quality assurance, governance support, and optimization discipline. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in a structured, regulated environment where accuracy, accessibility, metadata, approvals, documentation, and first-time-right execution are essential to delivering a trusted digital experience.

Responsibilities

• Authoring and publishing execution: Build, update, schedule, publish, and unpublish web pages and digital assets using AEM templates, components, content fragments, experience fragments, workflows, and approved publishing processes.
• Publishing operations: Support intake validation, request coordination, status tracking, release readiness, post-publish checks, content lifecycle updates, and recurring website maintenance.
• Quality and compliance: Apply brand, editorial, legal, regulatory, accessibility, metadata, and SEO standards before content moves live.
• Operational documentation: Maintain publishing logs, authoring instructions, page records, issue notes, and standard operating procedure updates to strengthen repeatability and reduce key-person dependency.
• Optimization support: Use analytics, site-health observations, SEO inputs, accessibility checks, and stakeholder feedback to identify practical improvements to content structure, findability, usability, and page performance.
• Create, edit, format, schedule, publish, and maintain content across Northern Trust's enterprise web properties using Adobe Experience Manager and related publishing tools.
• Build pages from approved requirements, content, designs, wireframes, templates, component guidance, and digital experience standards.
• Upload, organize, tag, and maintain digital assets, including images, documents, videos, PDFs, disclosures, and supporting media within AEM Assets or other approved repositories.
• Apply required metadata, page titles, descriptions, alt text, tagging, structured content guidance, internal linking, and SEO fundamentals to support discoverability and content quality.
• Perform pre-publish and post-publish quality checks for content accuracy, responsive display, link functionality, asset rendering, accessibility, metadata, and component consistency.
• Support content lifecycle management by updating, retiring, replacing, or escalating outdated content and ensuring published pages remain current and aligned to business requirements.
• Coordinate with marketing, content, UX, design, SEO, accessibility, analytics, compliance, legal, technology, and regional stakeholders to clarify requirements and deliver work through approved workflows.
• Track assigned work, publishing status, issues, dependencies, and approvals using tools such as Workfront, Confluence, SharePoint, or comparable workflow platforms.
• Identify recurring publishing, component, content, asset, metadata, or workflow issues and escalate them with clear documentation, examples, and recommended next steps.
• Support continuous improvement of authoring standards, QA checklists, intake guidance, publishing procedures, documentation, and team knowledge-sharing materials.
• Assist with global, multi-site, and localized content updates, including language-copy or market-specific publishing workflows where applicable.
• Contribute to optimization efforts by reviewing performance signals, analytics inputs, SEO findings, accessibility observations, and stakeholder feedback to recommend content and page-level improvements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above.
• 2+ years of experience in digital content authoring, web publishing, CMS operations, digital production, or a related web experience role.
• Working knowledge of web publishing fundamentals (Templates, components, assets, metadata, workflows, approvals, staging, publishing, and content versioning).
• Foundational understanding of SEO, accessibility, metadata, responsive design.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, time management, follow-through.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

Preferred Experience

• Direct experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), particularly AEM Sites and AEM Assets
• Experience with more advanced AEM capabilities such as AEM Cloud/6.5, Multi Site Manager, Live Copies, language copies, content fragments, experience fragments, or publishing workflows.
• Experience supporting enterprise, global, multilingual, or multi-site websites.
• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry such as banking, insurance, healthcare, or pharmaceuticals.
• Familiarity with analytics/optimization platforms such as Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, Adobe Target, or like.
• Experience with workflow/documentation platforms such as Workfront, Jira, ServiceNow, Confluence, or SharePoint.
• Basic HTML/CSS troubleshooting and/or basic image preparation and optimization skills.
• Familiarity with taxonomy, structured content, content lifecycle management, content reuse, or AI/search discoverability.

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