Taxonomist – Librarian
Role/Responsibilities
We’re seeking a highly self-motivated, technology-savvy teammate who thrives working in a collaborative, data-driven environment. This position will help design and build world-class, intuitive, and comprehensive taxonomies and ontologies to optimize content discovery and classification.
As a Taxonomist, you will have the opportunity to support the Taxonomy strategies for Moodys.com which impact navigation, recommendations, and on-site search to create an optimal user experience for our customers. Taxonomists create and maintain the categorization of content, inform Product decisions, and support Developers. They identify the best ways to gather and categorize content. They also troubleshoot website categorization issues, tool and system issues.
Essential Job Functions
Maintain and optimize taxonomies, metadata and classification schema to ensure alignment and efficiency between upstream and downstream taxonomies
Partner with Content and Technology teams across MA and MIS on metadata and taxonomy solutions. Provide metadata support for Product Initiatives and enhancements.
Contribute to Strategy and Innovation: Serve as a taxonomy, metadata, and ontology subject matter expert that contributes expertise to define and implement new business opportunities to keep Moody’s up-to-date with market best practices.
Serve as a Taxonomist Strategist to enhance the categorization of existing and new content for better display, search, access and distribution.
Assist with taxonomy and categorization build-out efforts, including development, deployment, and maintenance to improve product findability and user experience for Moody’s Analytics customers
Interact with internal stakeholders, including product managers and research specialists, to ensure that the taxonomies being built meet end-user needs
Become a power user of our internally-developed tools to accelerate the development of our structured data efforts
Serve as a taxonomy and tagging expert to represent and respond to the research and product teams, improving internal taxonomical structures as well as the processes used to build and maintain our taxonomies
Identifies opportunities to make enhancements to the taxonomy, metadata and content model
Develops proficiency in content management system
Shares knowledge, ground rules and perspective with team members
Education
Qualifications
Master’s degree in Library or Information Science, Linguistics, or equivalent professional experience
BS degree in Library and Information Studies (MLIS) or equivalent experience with language-oriented, technical/scientific discipline
Proficient in MS Excel, coupled with strong technical aptitude. Familiarity with relational databases, XML/XSLT and structured query languages a plus
BS degree in Library and Information Studies (MLIS) or equivalent experience with language-oriented, technical/scientific discipline
Proficient in MS Excel, coupled with strong technical aptitude. Familiarity with relational databases, XML/XSLT and structured query languages a plus
Experience
5-7 years of experience developing and managing controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, metadata and classification schema, online search technology, insights research or related field ideally for a client-facing application
Highly organized, detail-oriented, structured thinker
A solid understanding of metadata, subject classification, and content organization
Experience creating, implementing, and maintaining taxonomies and its relationship to search
Proven skills in data retrieval techniques such as SQL and or Boolean query construction
Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills and strong interpersonal skills
Ability to balance business requirements with end-user needs in the development and growth of system taxonomies
Highly organized, detail-oriented, structured thinker
A solid understanding of metadata, subject classification, and content organization
Experience creating, implementing, and maintaining taxonomies and its relationship to search
Proven skills in data retrieval techniques such as SQL and or Boolean query construction
Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills and strong interpersonal skills
Ability to balance business requirements with end-user needs in the development and growth of system taxonomies
Department/Team
Research Marketing
Working at Moody’s
Moody’s is an essential component of the global capital markets, providing credit ratings, research, tools and analysis that contribute to transparent and integrated financial markets. Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO) is the parent company of Moody’s Investors Service, which provides credit ratings and research covering debt instruments and securities, and Moody’s Analytics, which offers leading-edge software, advisory services and research for credit and economic analysis and financial risk management. The Corporation, which reported revenue of $4.2 billion in 2017, employs approximately 11,900 people worldwide and maintains a presence in 41 countries.
Description :
Moody’s is an essential component of the global capital markets, providing credit ratings, research, tools and analysis that contribute to transparent and integrated financial markets. Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO) is the parent company of Moody’s Investors Service, which provides credit ratings and research covering debt instruments and securities, and Moody’s Analytics, which encompasses the growing array of Moody’s non-ratings businesses including risk management software for financial institutions, quantitative credit analysis tools, economic research and data services, data and analytical tools for the structured finance market, and training and other professional services. The Corporation, which reported revenue of $1.8 billion in 2009, employs approximately 4,000 people worldwide and maintains a presence in 27 countries.
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