Job Title: Taxonomy Strategist - Netflix (Full-time, $26-$35/hour, Los Gatos, USA)
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Taxonomy Strategist to join our team at Netflix. As a Taxonomy Strategist, you will play a crucial role in driving the metadata strategy and development of scientific taxonomies that will support our content discovery efforts. You will be responsible for creating and maintaining large-scale, diverse databases of creative assets, including general media, static images, and textual resources.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in taxonomy and metadata development, with experience in implementing best practices and driving the adoption of standardized metadata and taxonomies. You will be working closely with cross-functional teams, including Marketing, Publicity, Brand, Product Studio, Publication Creative, Globalization, and Data Science Engineering, to define and develop common metadata and taxonomies that will enable Netflix to optimize the efficiency of its creative assets.
Key responsibilities include:
- Defining new taxonomies and metadata related to technical, administrative, and creative properties for all promotional video, art, and digital media assets and their campaigns
- Reviewing and interviewing stakeholders and observing current workflows
- Identifying new requirements and filling gaps in current data architecture from a data structure/data connectedness perspective
- Collaborating with subject matter experts to define workflows and standards for metadata application
- Aligning disparate taxonomies and metadata across teams
- Advocating for shared metadata and taxonomies across tools and teams, and evangelizing its value
- Working closely with engineering partners to identify integration requirements, including intuitive UI for metadata application
- Reviewing existing taxonomies and improving their effectiveness
- Ensuring metadata is defined such that its integrity won't be compromised by social bias
- Establishing a governance framework for all metadata and taxonomies
- Establishing maintenance systems for all metadata and taxonomies
- Working with team experts to develop training materials and workshops
Requirements:
- Experience defining and developing taxonomy and metadata structures
- Experience working with Marketing, Publicity, or creative promotional resources
- Experience with Data Engineering from a data structure/data connectedness perspective
- Experience working with asset management systems like DAMS or MAMS for creative and production assets
- Experience working with collaborative, face-to-face workflow applications, and project management tools
- Experience working in a high-volume content environment
- Experience working with systems shared across internal teams and vendors
- Experience establishing a governance framework to maintain taxonomies
- Excellent communication skills: written, verbal, and presentation
- Experience working in a global setting
- Able to work with and manage multiple stakeholders' expectations and needs
- Ability to set goals and work independently in a highly cross-functional, non-hierarchical workplace
- Ability to influence across different capability groups
- Knowledge of software development cycles and practices
- Comfortable working in a wide range of software from spreadsheet applications to proprietary applications to third-party tools
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in related fields: Information Management, Computer Science, Library and Information Science
- Experience working in the media and entertainment industry
- Experience with Rights Management
- Interest in AI and/or Machine Learning capabilities
- Interest in User Experience and/or Human-Computer Interaction
- Experience with Multilingual Taxonomies
- Experience with Ontologies