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Perficient

Global digital consultancy delivering IT solutions

Director – Adobe Digital Marketing

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/19/2026
$150.6k - $209.8k/yr
Expert
Bachelor's
United States
RemoteTravel up to 50% for client engagements and business development.
ConsultingTechnology & Systems Consulting

About the job

Requirements
  • Ten or more years of experience in enterprise marketing technology, including at least six years across the Adobe stack.
  • A track record of carrying and meeting a bookings or revenue target.
  • Experience owning a capability, standard, or technical discipline inside a consulting firm or large enterprise.
  • Depth in Adobe Experience Platform and Real-Time CDP, including identity, data modeling, governance, and consumption economics.
  • Working command of Journey Optimizer, Campaign, Marketo Engage, Analytics, Customer Journey Analytics, Target, and Experience Manager.
  • Experience delivering content production at volume through GenStudio, Firefly, Workfront, or Experience Manager Assets, including the operating model that enabled it.
  • Experience designing and delivering enterprise migrations, such as Campaign to Journey Optimizer or Analytics to Customer Journey Analytics.
  • Experience delivering complex programs in a consulting environment where the recommended design was implemented.
  • Experience hiring, developing, and promoting people.
  • Executive communication with CMO and CIO stakeholders.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
  • Willingness to travel up to 50% for client engagements and business development.
Responsibilities
  • Own bookings and revenue for a defined portion of the Adobe practice.
  • Own pipeline, including its contents, leadership, conversion, and corrective action when it thins.
  • Own the assessment and advisory offering, including its cost, deliverables, and revenue.
  • Own follow-on scope generated by assessments.
  • Provide solution input that influences whether Perficient wins a pursuit.
  • Maintain personal billability alongside practice responsibilities.
  • Assess clients' current marketing stacks, including connected systems that constrain Adobe capabilities.
  • Design target states based on client use cases.
  • Design identity resolution and data models in Real-Time CDP, including governance and consent architecture across jurisdictions.
  • Rationalize overlapping capabilities, including Campaign versus Journey Optimizer, Marketo Engage versus Journey Optimizer B2B, Analytics versus Customer Journey Analytics, and Target versus native decisioning.
  • Design content production models across GenStudio, Firefly, Workfront, and Experience Manager Assets, including workflow changes needed to achieve volume.
  • Sequence migrations while keeping the marketing calendar operational.
  • Determine where the agentic layer belongs, including CX Coworker, Brand Intelligence, and Experience Platform Agents, and define the required data architecture.
  • Model Experience Platform consumption and costs so clients understand renewal implications before committing to design decisions.
  • Lead executive workshops and design sessions with client marketing and technology leadership.
  • Define and enforce the Perficient standard for Adobe digital marketing work.
  • Review solutions on major pursuits and programs before designs reach clients.
  • Create reference architectures, accelerators, and reusable assets.
  • Define the practice position on Adobe digital marketing, including agentic orchestration, generative content production, and discovery through language models.
  • Define career tracks for consultants and architects, including level expectations and promotion readiness.
  • Hire members of the practice and set the hiring bar.
  • Develop senior people who can eventually hold the role.
  • Make staffing decisions about who belongs on each engagement.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience running agentic or generative artificial intelligence in a production marketing stack with substantiated results.
  • Hands-on exposure to CX Coworker, Brand Intelligence, Experience Platform Agents, and/or Brand Visibility.
  • Enterprise-scale business-to-business marketing experience, including Marketo Engage or Journey Optimizer B2B Edition.
  • Experience building and taking an assessment or advisory offering to market.
  • Adobe certification at the architect or expert level.
  • Experience integrating Adobe with Salesforce, a data warehouse, or a customer data platform outside the Adobe stack.
  • Depth in health and life sciences, financial services, or retail and consumer industries.
  • Experience in regulated-industry work where consent and privacy review shaped the design.

About the company

Perficient is a global digital consultancy that provides IT and business consulting services to large enterprises. It helps organizations design and deliver IT and digital solutions, with services spanning business analysis, portal development, and AI-powered digital initiatives. Its offerings are carried out through a global delivery network across the United States, Latin America, India, and Europe, combining strategists and technologists to execute projects from strategy through implementation. The company differentiates itself by leveraging a broad, multinational delivery footprint and pursuing strategic acquisitions to expand its capabilities and market reach, enabling it to serve Forbes Global 2000 and other large enterprise clients across multiple industries. The goal is to help enterprises transform digitally, using data analytics, cloud computing, and AI to achieve measurable business outcomes and improved performance.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

St. Louis, Missouri

Founded

1998

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What believers are saying

  • Perficient launched an AI-native brand on March 26, 2026, signaling demand traction.
  • Gradial and Sitecore partnerships position Perficient inside enterprise marketing workflows immediately.
  • Adobe Summit 2026 demos in healthcare and B2B showcase monetizable, industry-specific AI use cases.

What critics are saying

  • EQT ownership pressures margins, headcount, and integration discipline after the 2026 take-private.
  • Perficient depends on Salesforce, Microsoft, Adobe, and WRITER partnerships for growth.
  • If agentic AI delivery commoditizes, boutique consultancies and hyperscalers can squeeze Perficient fast.

What makes Perficient unique

  • Perficient became EQT private in 2026, keeping Tom Hogan and St. Louis headquarters.
  • Perficient won Microsoft AI Business Solutions Inner Circle status for 2025-2026.
  • Perficient deepened Salesforce Agentforce, Data Cloud, and Revenue Cloud through Kelley Austin, October 2025.

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Benefits

  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Remote Work Options

Company News

Associated Press
Jul 8th, 2026
Perficient and Gradial partner to bring agentic marketing to Fortune 500 brands

Perficient, a global AI and technology consulting firm, has partnered with Gradial, an agentic orchestration platform, to deliver agentic marketing execution to Fortune 500 brands. The partnership enables AI agents to handle marketing execution across channels whilst humans direct strategy and creative work. Gradial's platform orchestrates AI agents that author, activate, and optimise content across existing enterprise systems including DAM, CMS, and analytics platforms. The platform compresses work from days into hours. The firms are co-developing industry-specific solutions including Zero-Ops Content Pipeline and Regulated Content Automation. Perficient has established a Gradial Center of Excellence and implemented the platform on its own website. Gradial's clients include T-Mobile, AWS, and Prudential.

Business Wire
Oct 13th, 2025
Perficient Deepens Salesforce AI, Agentforce, and Data Capabilities Through Acquisition of Kelley Austin

Today, Perficient announced the acquisition of Kelley Austin, an award-winning Salesforce consulting partner.

StockTitan
May 5th, 2024
Perficient Acquired by EQT for $3B

Perficient, Inc. is set to be acquired by EQT in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $3.0 billion, or $76.00 per share, a 75% premium over its April 29, 2024, stock price. The deal, expected to close by the end of 2024, will take Perficient private and maintain its headquarters in St. Louis. This acquisition marks a strategic expansion for EQT in the digital consulting sector. Post-deal, Perficient's shares will cease trading on NASDAQ.

Business Wire
Oct 21st, 2023
Perficient Reaches Definitive Agreement to Acquire SMEDIX, INC.

Perficient announced today it has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire SMEDIX, Inc., a healthcare software engineering firm.

Business Wire
Oct 13th, 2022
Perficient Announces Acquisition of Brainjocks

Perficient today announces the acquisition of Brainjocks, a $13 million annual revenue digital consultancy with a strong Sitecore platform focus.