Taxonomy Specialist - Metadata & Knowledge Organization

 

Summary:

About the Role We are seeking a highly skilled Taxonomy Specialist to oversee taxonomy governance, metadata strategy, and content classification within our Recruiting domain. This role involves maintaining structured taxonomy workflows, ensuring metadata accuracy, and supporting knowledge management systems to enhance content delivery and information accessibility. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Oversee taxonomy governance, including reviews, assessments, and updates to maintain consistency and relevancy. 

• Define strategies and approaches for content tag audits and assessments. 

• Conduct content audits and reviews to ensure proper taxonomy tag use, quality, and consistency. 

• Gather and analyze feedback to identify evolving taxonomy needs. 

• Provide recommendations for taxonomy and tag tooling enhancements. 

• Offer insights on metadata strategy and improvements for taxonomy-based content delivery. 

Requirements 

• Experience with taxonomy governance, implementation, and workflows. 

• Expertise in knowledge organization systems, such as taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, and thesauri. 

• Familiarity with structured metadata for knowledge management and cataloging. 

• Proven ability to support complex taxonomies for effective information delivery. 

• Strong communication skills for advocating metadata importance in knowledge management and content delivery. 

• Experience with content management systems (CMS) or knowledge management systems. 

• Bachelor's degree in information science, library science, information technology, or a related field. 

• Knowledge of SKOS, OWL, MARC, or other cataloging standards. 

• Familiarity with taxonomy tools and modeling, along with working knowledge of ontologies and knowledge graphs. 

• Experience in Recruiting or related HR topics. 

Deliverables 

• A Recruiting-specific taxonomy structure with relevant categories and sub-categories. 

• Defined metadata fields and attributes aligned with Recruiting taxonomy categories. 

• A schema framework that enables content tagging by type, subject, and other attributes. 

• Properly tagged and classified content components following the established taxonomy. 

• A comprehensive taxonomy governance framework aligned with a holistic taxonomy strategy. 

Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.

Location: United States (Remote)

Role type: Contract 6 Month Position 

Expected hours: 40 per week 

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday (Extended schedule as needed Saturday-Sunday)

Application Question(s):

• Do you or will you in the future require any sponsorship to work in the US?

Language:

• English  (Required)