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Taxonomist

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Consumer Reports Expired
Yonkers, NY, USA

THE OPPORTUNITY

Consumer Reports, one of the most influential mission-driven organizations in the world, is seeking a Taxonomist to lead its ontology/taxonomy strategy. An award-winning media organization with close to 3 million paying digital members, CR publishes daily articles covering consumer news, insights and investigations, as well as 8,500+ products and services.

As CR's Taxonomist, you will work closely with a wide array of talented staffers (e.g., editors, marketers, SEO experts, product testers, web developers, etc.) towards optimizing our content's discoverability.  This role - which reports to Operations Director in the Content division - will also be responsible for developing a taxonomy roadmap, managing near and long-term objectives for the organization as a whole.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and align taxonomies for classifying assets across content, testing, and product development.
  • Recommend process improvements to key stakeholders that relate to ontology and taxonomy structure.
  • Work with key stakeholders to identify the impact to existing internal systems when implementing changes.
  • Monitor taxonomy governance and change management.
  • Utilize data-centric tools and methodologies to ensure the taxonomy evolves with the business.
  • Work across all divisions and products to manage controlled vocabularies and metadata.
  • Serve as the business owner of the taxonomy management tool.
ABOUT YOU

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in library science or a related field.
  • Five years experience in developing/managing large, complex taxonomies in a content-driven organization.
  • Experience developing and managing vocabularies and metadata schemas for information assets.
  • Experience in governance and system management.
  • Excellent project management.
  • Strong presentation and communication skills, and ability to engage with stakeholders in other business units .
Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in library science or a related field
  • Past experience working within a media and/or content organization.
  • Experience with Smart Logic.
  • Familiarity with Knowledge Graphs a plus
  • SPARQL proficiency
  • Familiarity with SEO, search and navigation

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Employer: Consumer Reports (@ConsumerReports)
Location: Yonkers, NY, USA
Posted Date: 19/05/2022
Expiry Date: 13/06/2022
Type: Full-Time
Categories: Metadata / Taxonomy Designer
Ref: DN-JB-834
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