Digital Assets Governance Specialist

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

The Thermo Fisher Scientific Corporate Customer Marketing team is seeking an experienced Digital Assets Governance Specialist to maintain the organization's Digital Asset Management (DAM) ecosystem. In this role, you will ensure digital assets are organized, enriched with accurate metadata, and efficiently distributed across enterprise marketing, sales, and digital platforms.

Working closely with the Senior Content Architect and cross-functional business teams, you will support the organization's digital asset governance by applying metadata and taxonomy standards, maintaining asset quality, and ensuring digital assets are organized, searchable, and accessible throughout their lifecycle.

Primary Responsibilities

• Govern the organization's Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform by preparing, cataloging, tagging, archiving, publishing, and maintaining digital assets in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets, ensuring they remain organized, searchable, accessible, and governed throughout their lifecycle.
• Administer the DAM platform by managing user accounts, permissions, troubleshooting, training, and providing guidance on best practices.
• Maintain and evolve the Global Taxonomy Framework and metadata standards, monitor taxonomy compliance, perform gap analyses, and partner with stakeholders to improve metadata quality and asset discoverability.
• Partner with the Sr. Content Architect, Creative Innovation Studio, Content Operations, Marketing, and technical teams to support content production workflows, asset migrations, onboarding of new teams, and continuous process improvement.
• Analyze DAM usage, metadata health, asset lifecycle metrics, and platform adoption, providing recommendations to improve operational efficiency and user experience.
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs), governance documentation, training materials, and user resources to support enterprise adoption of the DAM platform.
• Stay current on digital asset management best practices and emerging platform capabilities to continuously improve content operations and asset governance.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Digital Media, Library Science, Information Management, Digital Asset Management, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Experience

• 3–5 years of experience in Digital Asset Management, Digital Asset Library Administration, Creative Operations, or Content Operations.
• Hands-on experience administering Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets is required.
• Experience with metadata management, taxonomy, cataloging, asset migration, bulk uploads, and digital asset governance.
• Experience supporting creative production workflows, asset archiving, publishing, and enterprise content distribution.
• Experience with Workfront, OpenText, Seismic, and Adobe Dynamic Media is required.
• Experience implementing DAM best practices, governance models, and enterprise metadata standards.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong knowledge of Digital Asset Management principles, metadata standards, taxonomy management, records management, and asset lifecycle governance.
• Understanding of creative asset workflows and enterprise content distribution.
• Strong analytical skills, including proficiency in Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP) and asset reporting.
• Ability to manage multiple workflows simultaneously while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and project management skills.
• Strong customer service mindset with the ability to support users across global teams.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience documenting processes, developing SOPs, and delivering user training.
• Passion for continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Ability to prioritize competing requests in a fast-paced environment while maintaining data quality and governance standards.