02 / 09
Email Digital Brief System
Killed the briefing spreadsheet. Replaced it with a platform.
- Role
- Product Owner & Solution Architect
- Context
- Emirates, via Merkle, 2025
- Stack
- Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Cloud Pages, SSJS, AMPscript, REST APIs
EDBS — narrated walkthrough
- 110+campaigns shipped
- 31languages
- 3.5h → 20mper campaign build
- ~350hbuild work saved
The problem
Campaigns were briefed in scattered spreadsheets, then manually rebuilt inside the platform — slow, error-prone, and gatekept behind SFMC expertise. Visibility and governance were effectively zero.
What I did
- 1Owned both business vision and technical architecture as Product Owner and solution lead.
- 2Centralised campaign management through a dashboard, calendar view, secure login and structured briefing flows.
- 3Enabled real-time preview of email output during briefing and approval stages.
- 4Automated content, email and segmentation creation in Salesforce Marketing Cloud through API integration.
Outcome
- 110+ campaigns shipped through EDBS across 31 languages — in production every week.
- Campaign build time cut from ~3.5 hours to ~20 minutes; roughly 350 hours of build work saved so far.
- End-to-end campaign creation without users ever entering Marketing Cloud.