Taxonomist & Browse Developer, Amazon Corporate LLC, Seattle WA
Posted April 2, 2014
Who We Are
Since 1994, Amazon has evolved from a single retail website to become a global development platform as well as an e-commerce and publishing partner. Innovation is in our DNA, and we constantly seek out the world’s brightest technology minds to research and develop new solutions to improve the lives of our customers: shoppers, sellers, content creators, and developers around the world. Because that’s what being Earth’s most customer-centric company is all about, and it’s still Day One at Amazon.
Job Description
Amazon.com, a Fortune 200 company with over US$48 billion in annual sales, is based in Seattle, US. Amazon.com opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in dozens of product categories.
We are looking for a Browse Developer & Taxonomist as part of the Catalog Quality team in Seattle, Washington.
We are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you’d like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.
We are looking for a smart and passionate person to join our global team of taxonomists. You will help build a world-class, intuitive, and comprehensive navigation structure to optimize product discovery when searching and browsing on our sites. As a taxonomist you will have the opportunity to have a direct and significant impact on improving the customer experience and making it easy and fun to shop on our sites globally.
Your tasks and responsibilities:
· Develop browse structures to organize our extensive product selection for our customers globally.
· Expand and refine data retrieval techniques to utilize our extensive product catalog and ensure products end up in the right place for our customers.
· Coordinate cross-functional projects with a broad range of business and technical stakeholders.
· Analyze website metrics and customer behavior data to make intelligent decisions on optimizing our navigation structures.
· Help develop tools and update product data.
Qualifications
· Bachelor degree, or equivalent professional experience.
· 1-2 years experience in data retrieval techniques.
· Experience working with catalog and classification systems and creation of thesauri.
Preferred Qualifications
· Master’s degree in Library and Information Sciences, Knowledge Management, Information Management
· Basic experience working with UNIX or Perl regular expression.
· Someone who is smart, enjoys doing good work, and is genuinely interested in improving the customer experience of our sites globally.
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
· Excellent English language skill
· Ability to quickly understand complex processes and communicate them in simple language.
· Detail-oriented, decisive, self-motivated and calm under pressure.
Apply online at: http://www.amazon.jobs/