Career Profile: Change Manager
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Change Manager
A practical breakdown of the Change Manager role in Digital Asset Management—what you do day-to-day, why it matters, and how to succeed. Learn how this role helps teams drive adoption—communications, stakeholder alignment, training readiness, and sustained behavior change.
Executive Summary
This career profile explains the Change Manager role in a DAM environment, including the core responsibilities, skills, and collaboration patterns that make the position effective. It outlines how the role supports drive adoption—communications, stakeholder alignment, training readiness, and sustained behavior change, what success looks like in the first 30–90 days, and the KPIs that teams commonly use to measure impact. You’ll also find guidance on career growth paths, the way AI is reshaping the work, and practical tips to stand out in interviews and on the job.
Role Overview
A Change Manager ensures that DAM technology adoption is successful by focusing on people. They craft strategies to build awareness, overcome resistance, and foster user adoption. Their role often determines whether a DAM rollout succeeds or stalls, making them crucial for long-term ROI.
A Change Manager ensures that DAM technology adoption is successful by focusing on people. They craft strategies to build awareness, overcome resistance, and foster user adoption. Their role often determines whether a DAM rollout succeeds or stalls, making them crucial for long-term ROI.
Core Responsibilities
Develop change strategies, lead stakeholder engagement, create communication campaigns, run workshops, measure adoption success, manage resistance, align with leadership goals.
Compensation
Salary Expectations
$85,000–$120,000
AI Impacts
AI will support change managers by providing usage analytics, adoption heatmaps, and sentiment analysis, helping them target efforts more effectively.
Skills
Change management frameworks (ADKAR, Kotter), communication strategy, analytics, facilitation techniques.
Ideal Personality
Empathetic, persuasive, emotionally intelligent, enjoys motivating others and building consensus.
How To Shine
Design creative enablement campaigns, spotlight success stories, measure and present adoption metrics that prove DAM value.
Career Path
Change Manager → Program Manager → Transformation Director
Trajectory
Career Growth Potential
Increasing demand as DAM adoption scales globally and organizations prioritize digital transformation.
Industry Examples
Global brands, creative agencies, consultancies, large enterprises.
Suggested TdR Content
Prosci Certification, Change Management Institute resources, TdR Insights on Adoption.
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