Assistant Manager-Sitecore Content Author

Responsibilities

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 Power Shell 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 Dev Ops/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.

Qualifications

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