Taxonomist, TechTarget, Newton, MA

Posted April 28, 2017

TechTarget is seeking a Taxonomist to help manage and grow its IT industry taxonomies which are at the core of how we do business. The Taxonomist will work closely with the Taxonomy Director and must have an appetite for exploring new subject areas, understanding the systems surrounding our taxonomies, and engaging in process improvement. The Taxonomist will work independently but also closely with the Taxonomy Director as well as directly with various entities across the TechTarget organization to fulfill business needs. He/she must be able to solve complex problems involving fairly large interlinked taxonomies and multiple systems. This is a great job to learn and grow as a taxonomist. Remote candidates will be considered.

Job functions:

• Fulfill customer driven taxonomy requests.
• Build, maintain, map, and improve taxonomies and taxonomy processes.
• Monitor and QC ongoing classification processes.
• Resolve classification and integration data issues.
• Build organization understanding of taxonomies.
• Participate in and lead taxonomy improvement projects.
• Support the Taxonomy Director in various taxonomy related projects.

Qualifications/Required Skills:

• 2+ years’ taxonomy experience preferably in a corporate setting.
• Masters of Library Science or equivalent.
• Work independently, remotely, and collaboratively.
• Creatively utilize tools to facilitate the above.
• Juggle and track many project & tasks in parallel

Taxonomist skills/experience (not all required):

• Managing entitles and their relationships to taxonomies.
• Utilizing taxonomy/thesauri management tools.
• Implementing and monitoring manual and/or automatic classification processes.
• Working with onshore and offshore taxonomy contractors and services.
• Researching and understanding complex topics and products in the IT Domain.
• Writing Boolean search queries.
• Deployment and work-flow of taxonomies.
• Integration of taxonomies with other systems.
• Utilization of taxonomies in customer facing applications

Technical and other skills/experience (not all required)

• Writing and running SQL (some experience required).
• Running DOS and/or Linux commands (some experience required).
• Writing SPARQL queries.
• Analytics tools such a Tableau, GoodData, etc.
• The Python programming language (or an equivalent language).
• Automatic classification tools & methods.
• Knowledge of the IT domain.