Digital Asset Management Specialist (GCC Africa - Remote)

TransUnion; Remote; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data analytics company is seeking a Digital Asset Management (DAM) expert to oversee the organization and optimization of digital assets. In this role, you will manage the DAM system and collaborate with creative and marketing teams to ensure efficient asset reuse and compliance with brand standards. The ideal candidate has over 3 years of experience in DAM systems, especially AEM, and possesses strong organizational and communication skills. This remote position requires a fibre-ready home setup in South Africa.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing a DAM system, preferably AEM.
• Experience working cross-functionally with creative and marketing teams.
• Familiarity with digital rights management and accessibility standards.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain the DAM system for optimal accessibility and performance.
• Develop and enforce metadata schemas and asset lifecycle policies.
• Collaborate with global marketing and creative teams to catalog assets.

Skills

Digital Asset Management expertise

Proficiency in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

Metadata schema design

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Project management tools familiarity

Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud

Workfront

Jira

Job description

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What We'll Bring:

Digital Asset Management (DAM) expert to lead the organization, governance, and optimization of digital assets. Manage the DAM system—developing metadata schemas, enforcing governance, and ensuring smooth integration with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Sites.

What You'll Bring:

TransUnion is seeking a Digital Asset Management (DAM) expert to lead the organization, governance, and optimization of digital assets. As part of the Brand & Creative Team and partnering with the Web Team, you’ll manage the DAM system—developing metadata schemas, enforcing governance, and ensuring smooth integration with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Sites. This role supports creative workflows, drives efficient asset reuse, and ensures compliance with brand, legal, and accessibility standards. You’ll collaborate across teams to align asset management with publishing and digital strategy, while proactively addressing governance issues.

What You’ll Do:

• Digital Asset Stewardship
  • Administer and maintain the DAM system for optimal organization, accessibility, and performance.
  • Develop and enforce metadata schemas, taxonomy, tagging, and asset lifecycle policies.
  • Conduct audits to ensure asset accuracy, compliance, and relevance.
  • Enforce standards and elevate recurring governance issues.
  • Evolve metadata structures to meet changing business needs and improve discoverability.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & AEM Enablement
  • Partner with the Web Team to manage asset deployment in AEM Sites.
  • Ensure assets are properly tagged, linked, and optimized for web use.
  • Troubleshoot AEM asset issues and support content authors and developers.
  • Align asset workflows with publishing timelines and content strategy.
• Creative Team Support
  • Collaborate with global marketing and creative teams to ingest and catalog assets.
  • Train team members on DAM best practices and governance.
  • Facilitate efficient asset retrieval and reuse across campaigns.
• Governance & Compliance
  • Maintain rights management and usage guidelines for licensed and proprietary content.
  • Ensure adherence to brand and accessibility standards.
  • Monitor asset usage and governance compliance, recommending improvements as needed.

What You’ll Bring:

• 3+ years of experience managing a DAM system, preferably AEM within a creative or marketing environment.
• Proficiency in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), especially in asset management and site integration.
• Strong understanding of metadata schema design, taxonomy, and digital asset workflows.
• Experience working cross-functionally with creative, marketing, and web teams.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and problem‑solving skills.
• Familiarity with digital rights management, accessibility standards, and brand governance.
• Experience with AEM Sites and/or AEM Assets module (professional certification highly preferred).
• Knowledge of UX/UI principles and web publishing workflows.
• Familiarity with project management tools (e.g. Workfront, Jira) and creative platforms (e.g. Adobe Creative Cloud).
• Basic understanding of HTML/CSS is a plus.

For positions based in South Africa, preference will be given to suitably qualified candidates from designated groups in line with the company's Employment Equity plan and targets.

Should you have not heard from us within 3 weeks from applying, please regard your application as unsuccessful.

Please note it is a requirement of the Global Capability Centre Africa that you reside in a home that is fibre ready; and has space for you to be able to work comfortably and confidentially on a day‑to‑day basis for the purpose of your proposed employment. You can be based anywhere in South Africa that has fibre, but will not be able to work in a location outside of South Africa.

A Minimum of a 100 Meg Fibre line is required; should you be successful, you will need to upgrade your line or install fibre in order to work effectively.

This is a remote position which may require occasional in‑person attendance at work‑related events at the discretion of management.