About SJC
SJC stands as Canada’s largest privately owned communications company, distinguished by its portfolio of leading media brands, including Toronto Life, Chatelaine, and Maclean’s. A dynamic and influential organization within the industry, SJC excels in the creation, publication, and production of best-in-class content through its comprehensive content and creative studios, advanced advertising technology, and state-of-the-art print facilities. We collaborate with clients across North America to deliver innovative marketing solutions that effectively inform, inspire, and empower audiences across all platforms. With significant reach and influence, SJC has proudly been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for 22 consecutive years, a testament to our commitment to excellence. To learn more about our organization, please visit www.stjoseph.com
From its full-service multi-studio facility, SJC Content works with leading brands and retailers to create content for every channel, including photography, video, social animation, interactive e-commerce content and digital signage. The Mar-Comm Project Manager drives the planning and execution of seasonal and other strategic marketing campaigns, leading collaboration on these projects both cross-functionally and with a network of vendor partner marketing agencies.
Role Overview
SJC is seeking a Digital Asset Management Operations Specialist - AEM & Automation to support a major Walmart content operations program. The role will manage the accurate, timely, and well-governed movement of approved assets from SJC's asset management environment into Walmart's Adobe AEM asset library.
This is a hands-on operations and technology role for someone who is highly organized, comfortable with metadata and naming standards, detail-oriented with file quality, and capable of using light scripting or automation to reduce manual upload effort. The ideal candidate understands that asset management is not simply file handling; it is a controlled operational workflow that protects accuracy, findability, compliance, reuse, and speed-to-market.
The successful candidate will work closely with content operations, project management, production, studio, QA, product/engineering, and Walmart stakeholders to ensure every asset package is complete, correctly structured, uploaded to the right destination, and trackable through delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Asset Intake, Organization and Governance
- Manage the intake, organization, validation, and handoff of approved digital assets across Walmart-related content workflows.
- Maintain clear folder structures, file naming conventions, asset package standards, metadata rules, and version-control practices.
- Ensure final assets, source files, derivatives, thumbnails, supporting documentation, and metadata are complete before upload or handoff.
- Identify missing assets, incorrect file types, naming issues, duplicate files, metadata gaps, version conflicts, or other readiness risks before assets are published into Walmart's AEM library.
- Support consistent application of Walmart, SJC, Content Factori, and campaign-specific asset governance standards.
AEM / DAM Upload Execution
- Manage controlled upload of approved assets from SJC asset management systems into Walmart's Adobe AEM asset library.
- Prepare upload packages according to Walmart's required taxonomy, metadata, folder hierarchy, campaign structure, channel requirements, and usage standards.
- Validate successful uploads, confirm assets are in the correct AEM locations, and ensure they are searchable, properly tagged, and available to the appropriate Walmart teams.
- Support asset status tracking across intake, approval, upload, validation, exception management, and final delivery.
- Maintain upload logs, issue trackers, exception notes, and delivery records that can support program reporting and auditability.
Metadata, Taxonomy and File Standards
- Apply and maintain metadata standards across campaign, channel, SKU, supplier, product, usage-rights, language, file type, expiry, and approval-status fields where required.
- Help define practical metadata rules that improve searchability, reuse, reporting, and downstream channel handoff.
- Work with project management, production, and Walmart stakeholders to resolve unclear asset naming, taxonomy, versioning, and ownership questions.
- Support asset-level governance for bilingual deliverables, channel-specific derivatives, campaign naming, seasonal moments, and approved master assets.
- Identify opportunities to standardize repeatable asset-package structures for eCommerce, digital banners, site, email, social, signage, retail media, and other Walmart content outputs.
Scripting, Automation and Workflow Improvement
- Write, adapt, or maintain light scripts that reduce manual asset handling, repetitive renaming, metadata preparation, package validation, upload preparation, or reporting effort.
- Use practical automation techniques to batch rename files, validate folder structures, check required metadata, identify duplicates, generate upload manifests, or reconcile uploaded assets against delivery trackers.
- Partner with product/engineering teams where deeper platform integration, API usage, or workflow automation is required.
- Document scripts, repeatable processes, upload procedures, handoff rules, and operational controls so the workflow is sustainable and transferable.
- Continuously identify manual workarounds, process gaps, recurring upload issues, and opportunities to improve speed, accuracy, visibility, and governance.
QA, Tracking and Reporting
- Perform asset readiness checks before upload, including file type, naming, resolution, channel requirement, language, metadata, version, and package completeness validation.
- Track upload status, open exceptions, missing inputs, rework requests, approval gaps, and completed deliveries in a structured way.
- Support reporting on asset throughput, upload timing, exception volume, SLA performance, metadata completeness, and AEM/DAM handoff quality.
- Escalate risks early when missing inputs, technical issues, unclear ownership, or late changes could affect Walmart delivery deadlines.
- Contribute to post-cycle readouts by identifying root causes, recurring issues, workflow improvements, and automation opportunities.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with Walmart program teams, SJC project managers, studio/production teams, creative teams, QA, product operations, engineering, and client stakeholders.
- Act as the operational bridge between asset production, asset management, AEM upload requirements, and Walmart content delivery needs.
- Translate file and metadata requirements into clear instructions for creative, production, PM, and technical teams.
- Support onboarding, documentation, and training for internal users who contribute to the asset handoff workflow.
- Maintain a calm, solutions-oriented approach in a high-volume retail production environment with tight deadlines and changing priorities.
Required Experience and Skills
- 3+ years of experience in digital asset management, DAM operations, content operations, marketing operations, production operations, ecommerce content, or a related role.
- Hands-on experience working with DAM systems, asset libraries, content management platforms, or enterprise file management workflows.
- Experience with Adobe Experience Manager Assets / AEM Assets is strongly preferred; exposure to Adobe Creative Cloud, SharePoint, cloud storage, or other DAM platforms is an asset.
- Strong understanding of metadata, taxonomy, file naming, folder structure, version control, asset status tracking, and delivery governance.
- Ability to manage high volumes of assets accurately while maintaining quality, organization, and attention to detail.
- Comfort working with spreadsheets, upload manifests, file trackers, CSVs, asset inventories, status reports, and exception logs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain requirements clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, identify risks early, and keep stakeholders aligned in a fast-moving production environment.
Technical, Automation and Platform Expectations
- Ability to write or adapt practical scripts using tools such as Python, JavaScript, shell scripting, PowerShell, or similar scripting languages.
- Comfort automating repetitive file operations such as batch renaming, metadata preparation, file validation, duplicate detection, folder checks, manifest creation, and upload reconciliation.
- Basic understanding of APIs, structured data, CSV/JSON/XML, metadata mapping, and system-to-system handoff concepts is an asset.
- Experience with Adobe AEM workflows, DAM APIs, asset ingestion tools, bulk upload utilities, or content workflow integrations is a strong asset.
- Comfort partnering with engineering or product teams to define requirements for more advanced automation, integration, reporting, or workflow tooling.
- Ability to document technical processes in plain language so operational teams can follow and maintain the workflow.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Highly organized and detail-oriented; understands that small naming, tagging, or versioning errors can create major downstream issues.
- Operationally disciplined but technically curious; comfortable improving manual workflows through scripting and automation.
- Strong file governance mindset, with an instinct for structure, consistency, auditability, and repeatability.
- Able to work independently while keeping PMs, production teams, technical teams, and client stakeholders informed.
- Calm under volume pressure and able to prioritize accurately when deadlines, asset counts, or upload requirements change.
- Comfortable working between creative/content teams and technical systems without needing to be a full software developer.
Benefits at SJC:
SJC is committed to the well-being and professional development of its employees. Our employee benefit includes:
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Exclusive employee subscription rates for SJC publications.
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A complimentary 1-year Toronto Life Insider membership.
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Discounted annual GoodLife membership.
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Participation in the Perkopolis Perk Program, offering employee pricing at a wide range of retailers.
A Workplace Built for Everyone:
SJC Values
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Amaze our customers: We put our customers’ evolving needs at the heart of the business and inspire through our ideas, quality and service.
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Be relentlessly curious: We take the initiative to learn, try new things and brainstorm the next big idea.
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Respect every individual as equal: We value diversity as the means to creativity and cultivate a collaborative environment where everyone belongs.
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Innovate and adapt with urgency: Forward-thinking and flexible, we react quickly and boldly to change.
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Contribute to our community: We apply our resources and passions to make a difference – for people and our planet
Accommodations at SJC
SJC is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, where everyone feels welcome and has the opportunity to thrive. We're committed to creating inclusive and barrier-free recruitment processes and work environments. If you're contacted for an interview and require any accommodations to ensure a fair and equitable experience, please let our Human Resources team know. We'll handle any information you share with complete confidentiality.
Inclusion at SJC
Equality and respect for all is one of our founding values and core beliefs at SJC. We are a diverse group with associates of all ages, orientations, races and talents. We celebrate this diversity and we draw strength from it. Inclusivity at SJC means fostering a culture that welcomes and respects each individual as equal – both inside our walls and within the larger community.
