Posted on: 08/08/2022
Job ID: YATS08202232644-1
Job Description:
The main function of a Taxonomist is to create a product taxonomy with detailed attributes that will help sellers create the most effective listings, help buyers find what they’re looking for, and help everyone have the very best experience.
Responsibilities:
- Create and own the product taxonomy strategy
- Coordinate and build alignment with teams and stakeholders across a family of apps and service to optimize for consistency and interoperability
- Develop, manage, maintain, and iterate on a unified taxonomy for all the products that can be bought and sold
- Build out categories and custom collections of products that power features like recommendations, similar items, merchandising themes, and more
- Manage, maintain, and iterate on product attributes that power ranking models, structured content, faceted search, product comparisons, and more
- Make recommendations about ongoing taxonomy management as well as product strategies and features that rely on taxonomy
- Create labels and other interface language that are consistent with voice, content standards, and that can scale appropriately for internationalization needs
- Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into useful and valuable product experiences
- Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and executive teams
- Partner with PMs, engineers, product designers, researchers, and content strategists to oversee the user experience of a product from conception until launch
Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent training required
- Expert ability to use taxonomy management systems to maintain categories, attributes, and other metadata
- Expert ability to move fast and work with cross-functional teams on big, ambiguous problems
- Expert ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision
- Expert ability to build alignment amongst distributed stakeholders
- Experience in building and shipping taxonomies and related features for e-commerce web sites, apps, or software
- Experience with E-commerce taxonomy work