Taxonomist – Product Classification Specialist

About the role

We are looking for a detail‑obsessed, data‑driven Taxonomist to own and evolve the product classification framework that powers our eCommerce platform. You will shape how millions of items are discovered, surfaced and recommended, working at the intersection of information architecture, AI training data and customer experience.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain a multi‑level product taxonomy (category trees, sub‑categories) aligned with business verticals and shopper needs.
• Establish and enforce taxonomy governance standards, naming conventions and classification rules across all product lines.
• Conduct regular audits to detect taxonomy drift, miscategorizations and data‑quality issues, and update the category system accordingly.
• Define product attribute schemas (facets, filters, metadata) for each category, ensuring completeness, consistency and searchability.
• Collaborate with catalog and content operations to create data‑entry standards and attribute validation rules.
• Support AI‑assisted auto‑classification and auto‑tagging pipelines by providing ground‑truth datasets, evaluation criteria and related keyword lists.
• Review AI classification results, identify errors and give feedback to improve model performance.
• Partner with Search & Discovery, Merchandising, Category Managers, onboarding teams and UX/UI groups to align taxonomy with navigation, SEO, merchandising priorities and front‑end patterns.
• Own the taxonomy management tooling, drive process improvements and produce regular reports on catalog coverage, classification accuracy and attribute completeness.

Required profile

• Detail‑obsessed and data‑driven mindset.
• Experience designing and governing product taxonomies or classification frameworks.
• Familiarity with AI‑driven classification or tagging pipelines.
• Strong collaboration skills to work with cross‑functional teams such as engineering, merchandising and UX.

Required skills