What is the role of the Site Owner in AEM and how is...

[tomek-niedzwiedz]

When creating a site based on a Blueprint, one can optionally assign a Site Owner. The field allows an existing user to be picked but there's little information in the documentation as to what this means exactly.

What are the responsibilities of a site owner? Will the user selected receive notifications when something happens to a site? Does it have to do with approvals? Are there any OOTB features that use the Site Owner field?

[SureshDhulipudi · Accepted solution]

Select the user that will be responsible for this site.

Many organizations find it useful to have a site/ product owner who works to ensure that the vision of the project is met by the individual teams during implementations (content creation, new features implementation)

I don't see it (siteOwner) used anywhere (oob) to get any other functionality.