Taxonomist / Ontologist JD
Join a nascent product team dedicated to establishing a best in class taxonomy, ontology, and tagging organization at Client.
Role: Taxonomist / Ontologist
Recommended Band: U
Responsibilities
Design and implement semantic structures to connect consumers to Client's ecosystem of offerings.
Develop taxonomy and ontology structures to support defined enterprise taxonomy use cases.
Holistically design faceted taxonomies, ontologies, and controlled vocabularies to be used for search, browse navigation, personalization, and analytics use cases across Client.
Collaborate with internal business stakeholders to ensure that semantic structures accurately represent specialized business knowledge and points of view.
Collaborate with engineering teams to triage and troubleshoot taxonomy and ontology data issues, and to deliver taxonomy data solutions to end consumers
Requirements
MLIS
3+ years working on customer-centric taxonomies, ontologies, or controlled vocabularies- preferable in an e-commerce or retail setting
Familiarity with taxonomy and ontology management toolsets
Familiarity with RDFS, OWL, SPARQL, and SKOS
High degree of comfort with ambiguity and ability to operate independently