Taxonomist & Information Architecture Strategist

This person will focus on the strategic planning, design, and implementation of taxonomies to help achieve goals for the Interests & Communities Taxonomy team, such as supporting the categorizing and labeling, machine learning and content understanding systems at Facebook. The crux of this work is in developing, maintaining, growing a taxonomy for a complex, many-faceted product while integrating it into a broader taxonomy/ontology infrastructure. The work also includes following taxonomy management best practices, metadata and vocabulary standards, and building cross-functional relationships.

The person in this role will be expected to be an experienced taxonomist able to quickly expand knowledge domains.

Taxonomist & Information Architecture Strategist Responsibilities

• Utilize industry best practices for taxonomy development and maintenance.
• Consult with internal product partners to expand our taxonomy to support product and business goals while remaining faithful to underlying structures.
• Help build out and establish a taxonomy program for Interest based content.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in developing taxonomies/or ontologies to support a variety of systems both for front-end and back-end use.
• Experience with developing complex taxonomies, thesauri, and ontologies.
• Experience with evaluating and implementing taxonomies to support systems such as search systems, content management systems, digital asset management systems, or product classification.
• Experience building taxonomies for machine learning classification systems.
• Experience with a variety of topic/domain types and complexity of taxonomies.
• Experience with systems and business analysis.
• Experience communicating and presenting taxonomy principles and standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Library Science or Information Management
• Experience with scripting language such as Python

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