Senior Lead Digital Product Manager

About this role
Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Digital Product Manager to serve as Product Owner for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).This role will translate product strategy into executable delivery, own and prioritize the backlog, and partner across Product, Experience Design, Engineering, Content, Accessibility, Risk, and business teams. The Product Owner will help evolve AEM as a scalable enterprise content and experience platform while improving quality, reuse, governance, authoring efficiency, and speed to market.
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In this role, you will

• Own and continuously prioritize the AEM product backlog based on customer value, business outcomes, platform health, risk, dependencies, and delivery capacity.
• Translate product strategy, roadmap priorities, architecture direction, and business needs into clear epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with the Product Manager to shape the AEM capability roadmap and connect near-term delivery decisions to the long-term platform vision.
• Serve as the primary day-to-day product decision-maker for the delivery team, providing timely clarification, resolving scope questions, and making informed tradeoffs.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, release planning, and other agile product ceremonies in partnership with the Scrum Master and Engineering leads.
• Partner with Experience Design, engineering, content authors, analytics, accessibility, testing, and business stakeholders to deliver intuitive, reusable, and scalable digital experiences.
• Drive AEM capabilities across content authoring, components, templates, workflows, digital assets, content governance, publishing, and platform integrations.
• Establish clear definitions of ready and done, ensuring requirements include functional, accessibility, analytics, security, performance, and operational considerations as appropriate.
• Champion a strong testing mindset by defining acceptance criteria and test scenarios, coordinating functional and regression testing, reviewing defects, and providing product sign-off for release readiness.
• Partner with Engineering to improve test coverage, defect prevention, traceability, and consistent validation across releases.
• Coordinate dependencies across internal teams, external partners, shared platforms, and enterprise release processes; escalate risks early and drive issues to resolution.
• Support production validation, release communications, incident response, root-cause follow-up, and prioritization of corrective actions.
• Use product analytics, author feedback, operational data, and delivery metrics to identify opportunities and measure whether capabilities achieve intended outcomes.
• Promote reusable patterns and platform standards that reduce duplication, simplify maintenance, improve content-author efficiency, and accelerate time to market.
• Build trusted relationships and influence stakeholders across a complex, matrixed organization without relying on direct authority.
• Support the evolution of the AEM platform, including the transition to more flexible, modern content management capabilities and emerging agentic AI capabilities, ensuring product priorities and platform investments align with future digital experience needs.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of digital product management, product ownership, product development, or equivalent experience demonstrated through a combination of work experience, training, military experience, or education.
• 2+ years of hands-on product ownership experience supporting Adobe Experience Manager or another enterprise content management or digital experience platform.
• 2+ years of experience with AEM Sites and related capabilities such as components, templates, content fragments, experience fragments, workflows, publishing, and digital asset management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex product backlogs, write high-quality user stories and acceptance criteria, and make transparent priority and scope tradeoffs.

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Desired qualifications

• Strong understanding of agile product delivery, including discovery, refinement, sprint execution, release planning, production validation, and continuous improvement.
• Experience developing test scenarios, coordinating functional, accessibility, integration, and regression testing, and driving defects through resolution.
• Ability to partner effectively with engineering and architecture teams on platform capabilities, integrations, APIs, nonfunctional requirements, and technical dependencies
• Experience working with content authors and business teams to improve content operations, governance, workflow efficiency, and adoption.
• Strong customer and user focus, with experience partnering with Experience Design, research, analytics, and accessibility teams.
• Ability to define success measures and use qualitative and quantitative insights to guide prioritization and product improvements.
• Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, manage competing priorities, resolve conflict, and maintain momentum in a highly matrixed environment.
• Executive-ready communication skills, including the ability to explain product decisions, risks, dependencies, delivery status, and tradeoffs clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Experience in a large, highly regulated enterprise, with an understanding of risk management, controls, compliance, change management, and release governance.
• Experience with complementary Adobe capabilities, such as Adobe Target or Adobe Analytics, is a plus.

What success looks like

• A prioritized, delivery-ready backlog that clearly connects work to product strategy and measurable outcomes.
• Predictable delivery with early visibility into risks, dependencies, decisions, and capacity tradeoffs.
• High-quality releases supported by clear acceptance criteria, disciplined testing, and effective production validation.
• Greater reuse, stronger governance, and improved authoring efficiency across the AEM platform.
• Strong alignment among Product, Technology, Design, Content, Risk, and business stakeholders.

Job expectations

• Willingness to work on-site at one of the stated locations on the job opening on a hybrid schedule.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

Pay Range
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.
$159,000.00 - $305,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement

Posting End Date:
15 Nov 2026
* Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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