Assistant Manager-Sitecore Content Author

Purpose/Objective

To manage and optimize content operations on Sitecore (10.x) platforms by authoring, publishing, and maintaining high-quality, brand-compliant content. The role ensures seamless collaboration with cross-functional teams, enforces governance and workflows, applies SEO best practices, and leverages automation (SPE) for efficiency. It supports content integrity across environments, migration activities, and continuous improvement of user experience, accessibility, and site performance.

Key Responsibilities of Role

- Create, update, and publish content across Sitecore (10.x) websites, ensuring consistency with brand guidelines and editorial standards. - Hands-on authoring using Sitecore Experience Editor, Content Editor, SXA (Sitecore Experience Accelerator), and standard components/templates. - Collaborate with designers, developers, and SEO specialists to structure pages, modules, and media assets for optimal UX, accessibility, and performance. - Configure and manage Sitecore workflows, approvals, and versioning; enforce governance and content lifecycle best practices. - Use Sitecore PowerShell Extensions (SPE) to automate repetitive authoring tasks (bulk item creation/updates, media import, metadata tagging, publishing queues) and to generate scripts for content audits and cleanup. - Manage content taxonomy (folders, tags, categories), data templates, and component-level data sources; ensure clean information architecture. - Perform content publishing (incremental/smart/full) and schedule publish windows; monitor publish queues and resolve blockers. - Maintain Media Library hygiene: bulk uploads, image/video metadata, renditions - Apply SEO best practices: headings, structured content, internal linking, canonical tags, metadata, friendly URLs, and sitemap management. - Basic Solr operations awareness: understand indexing scopes, item re-index triggers, troubleshooting missing content in search, coordinate re-index requests with engineering. - Create and maintain content authoring guides, checklists, and SOPs; provide enablement/training to new authors and stakeholders. - Ensure content integrity across environments (Dev/QA/UAT/Prod) and support UAT by validating pages, forms, and links. - Coordinate with DevOps/engineering for deployments, package installations, and resolving authoring issues post-release. - Execute content migration plans (manual/SPE-assisted); validate mapping, fix broken links, and normalize formatting. - Monitor site quality using link checkers and accessibility tools, log and track defects with clear reproduction steps. - Participate in sprint ceremonies (refinement, review) to plan authoring tasks aligned to releases and campaigns. - Maintain compliance with legal and brand requirements (privacy, disclaimers, copyright) and ensure localization readiness for multilingual sites.

Technical Competencies

• Experience coordinating with Azure or Google Cloud hosted environments for content-related activities (cache flushes, CDN purges, basic telemetry checks with guidance from DevOps).,• Familiarity with Helix principles at a high level (to understand component boundaries and reuse patterns in authoring).,• Ability to write simple PowerShell scripts (within SPE) to automate content inventory, metadata normalization, and scheduled housekeeping.,• Exposure to headless content authoring concepts (field schemas, content models, and how content maps to front-end in JS/Next.js) even if not authoring directly in headless UIs.

Qualifications and Experience

- BCA/MCA/MBA/BE/BTech/BIT preferably with demonstrated content management experience. - 4-6 years