Product Taxonomist

Profile

Best Buy

Every brand has something to sell. What makes Best Buy and Geek Squad different is the fact that we sell the most amazing, technologically advanced products and provide the best service offerings to protect your equipment and give you sound peace-of-mind. Best Buy is not only a retailer, but also a technology and services company, where technology products and services are in our DNA. We provide an exciting work environment with a community of technology learners where you can be yourself while investing in your career. If you enjoy being part of a high energy culture, this might just be the next step in your career.

We are seeking a Product Taxonomist that will play a critical role in the on-going evolution and execution of the Enterprise Product Management team as we continue to evolve our capabilities. This individual will be a strategist, researcher, and implementation expert for data schemas for both internal and consumer-facing platforms.

What is the Product Taxonomist responsible for?

The Product Taxonomist is responsible for the creation, renovation and continuous improvement of the Best Buy product data structure and attribute database. You will be designing, editing, and optimizing taxonomies. Taxonomies are specific types of structured terms in a simple hierarchy or term sets used for organizing, indexing, and retrieving content. This role acts as Subject Matter Expert for the data structure, its definitions, and its usage. You will prioritize and develop work plans around current initiatives, consult on current tool capabilities, and advocate for future needs. You will regularly partner cross-functionally to support Best Buy’s product data quality goals and help deliver world-class customer experiences.

Specific areas of ownership and impact:

Data Structures that Product Research:

Researches, designs, implements, and continuously improves the product data architecture through customer research, usage analytics and cross-functional partnerships. Ability to translate customer analytics or other business use cases into good taxonomy design. Serves as a primary contributor to, and coordinator of, the collaborative review of product data schemas with Merchandising, Online Category Managers, vendors, Online Search, SEO Management, Product Information, and other business partners

Demonstrated ability to manage projects and communicate clearly with partner teams to leverage schema and create a best-in-class customer experience

Project Management:

through partnering with project leaders and stakeholders to determine data needs, requirements, and timelines. Create communication plans that inform relevant audiences of progression and relevant updates.

Process/System Enhancement and Support:

Validates and analyzes proposed system and business process changes to ensure alignment across interdependent process & system ecosystem. Additionally, partner cross-functionally to address issues and enhancements. Helps maintain a knowledge repository of taxonomy definitions, processes and supporting tools.

What is required for this role?

As an ideal candidate, you are driven, curious, enthusiastic, analytical, and detail oriented. You balance strong organizational skills with flexibility, understanding and embracing the ambiguity that comes with working in a rapidly developing e-commerce environment. You naturally find problems and delight in identifying their solutions. In addition, the ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

Basic Qualifications

2 years of experience in Retail, E-Commerce or Merchandising for online

Ability to think strategically and logically in the face of complex problems and urgent challenges

Demonstrated experience in requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, validation, and successful implementation of projects of various sizes and complexities

Strong project management and project facilitation skills

Ability to manage diverse business relationships, including senior leadership and external vendors

Ability to adhere to strict governance and reporting processes

History of making strategic decisions with ambiguous data

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or above

Experience with Taxonomy or Ontology management software and processes

3 years of communication planning OR basic project management

2 years of experience utilizing analytical data skills with the ability to turn data into actionable information

Basic understanding of query languages and relational databases

Company info

Best Buy
Website : http://www.bestbuy.com