Taxonomist, Capital Group, Los Angeles CA

Posted April 2, 2014

The Capital Group has a position opening for a taxonomist

Position Title: Taxonomist
AutoReqId: 16488BR
Functional Area: Digital/Web
Work Location: Los Angeles, CA (Downtown)
Personnel Area: (Company) 990 : CGC
Org Unit Number/Name: 70035470 : AFWeb User Experience

Responsibilities

• Establish a formal and sustainable taxonomy practice within the organization
• Develop semantic infrastructure for content delivery
• Create an enterprise taxonomy (controlled vocabulary and organization structure)
• Work may include analyzing search logs; working with business and SEO analysts; and conducting competitive analysis
• Work with technical, product, and business teams to develop metadata schema for web pages, digital assets, and con
• Assess functionality of tagging capabilities in Adobe CQ5 and, if needed, research and define requirements for additio
• Provide input on the creation of tagging workflows
• Guide content creators/taggers on application of taxonomy and terms, and monitor to ensure assets are tagged corre
• Develop and document process for ongoing taxonomy maintenance
• Maintain and evolve DAM structure, including metadata schema and tags
• Ownership of taxonomy tool
• Lead Taxonomy Governance meetings
• Train content creators/taggers
• Determines where new content types, pages, sections, etc. belong within the authoring environment (folder structure
• Maps relationships between sets within the repository for reuse
• Evolves existing sets and elements within enterprise
• Analyzes fragments and other ad hoc reuse cases to determine if they should be elevated to the set level
• Coordinates rollout of new sets and elements

Qualifications

• Masters in Library and Information Sciences or Information Management, or equivalent professional experience
• Experience developing controlled vocabularies or other systems for classification, information retrieval, or asset mana
• Deep understanding of the application of taxonomy and metadata for content and digital asset management
• Experience working with content management systems and digital asset managers
• Ability to solicit stakeholder input via interactive workshops, interviews, or other methods
• Ability to analyze website metrics and customer behavior data to make intelligent decisions about taxonomy structure

Primary Manager: Angelo Funicelli
HR Contact/Recruiter: Ashley Lehto [email protected], (317) 706-5857