Taxonomist

Overview

Join a leading global technology company revolutionizing how people connect and communicate. As a Taxonomist, you will play a vital role in shaping the information architecture within our People@ ecosystem. Your expertise will directly impact how employees access critical HR information, ensuring a seamless and personalized experience. Be a key player in enhancing knowledge management and driving efficiency across the organization.

As a Taxonomist, you will be responsible for the health, accuracy, and scalability of our HR taxonomies. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their information needs and design effective taxonomic solutions. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the evolution of our knowledge architecture and make a tangible impact on employee experience.

What You’ll Do:

• Maintain and implement HR taxonomies, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and alignment with organizational needs.
• Develop and expand attributed classification schemes to support content organization and retrieval.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (content creators, engineers, subject matter experts) to understand information needs and design effective taxonomic solutions.
• Conduct regular audits and quality control of metadata to ensure taxonomy health and content performance.
• Advise on best practices for metadata creation, taxonomy use, and information architecture to improve content discoverability and user experience.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the knowledge architecture, ensuring it scales with the organization’s growth and changing information landscape.

Must-Have Qualifications:

• Experience with taxonomy governance
• Experience with knowledge representation and organization systems (taxonomies, ontologies, and thesauri)
• Experience with structured metadata for knowledge management or cataloging
• Experience supporting complex taxonomies for information delivery
• Experience communicating the importance of metadata for knowledge management and content delivery
• A Bachelor’s Degree in information science, library science, information technology or a related field

Nice-to-Have Qualifications:

• Knowledge of taxonomy workflows
• Knowledge of metadata property schemas
• Knowledge of SKOS, RDF/s SPARQL and other semantic organization or information cataloging standards
• Interest in or knowledge of ontologies and knowledge graphs
• Experience with benefits, compensation, health care, payroll, and related HR topics
• Experience working with international partners across different time zones and cultures
• Experience in a fast-paced, Big Tech environment

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $61.22 to $68.03 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

About Aquent Talent:
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