Taxonomist

Role Overview

Taxonomy Design and Governance

• Design, build, and maintain a multi-level product taxonomy aligned with business verticals and customer needs.
• Establish governance standards, naming conventions, and classification rules across product lines.
• Add and remove categories and resolve conflicts where products are assigned to incorrect categories.
• Audit live-app and backend taxonomies for drift, miscategorizations, and data-quality issues.

Attribute and Metadata Architecture

• Define product attribute schemas, facets, filters, and metadata fields for each category.
• Standardize product details such as size, color, and material across categories.
• Collaborate with catalog and content operations teams on data-entry standards and attribute validation rules.

AI and Platform Collaboration

• Define ground-truth datasets and evaluation criteria for AI-assisted auto-classification and auto-tagging pipelines.
• Develop related-word and search-term lists to improve product discovery.
• Review AI product categorization, identify errors, and provide feedback to improve model performance.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Align taxonomy structures with faceted navigation, filter logic, SEO requirements, and Search and Discovery team needs.
• Collaborate with Merchandising and Category Managers on business priorities and emerging trends.
• Partner with merchant onboarding and experience teams to improve product-data ingestion and classification compliance.
• Work with UX and UI teams to validate category structures against navigation and browsing behavior.

Data Quality and Tooling

• Own the taxonomy management toolset and drive process improvements.
• Report on catalog coverage, classification accuracy, attribute completeness, and taxonomy health KPIs.
• Maintain taxonomy guides, documentation, and onboarding materials for internal teams and third-party sellers.

Experience and Qualifications

• 4–6 years of experience in taxonomy, information architecture, data governance, or catalog management.
• Experience in eCommerce, retail, or marketplace environments is preferred.
• Experience designing hierarchical classification systems for large catalogs of 200,000 or more SKUs.
• Strong understanding of product attribute modeling, faceted search, and metadata standards such as GS1 or UNSPSC.
• Hands-on experience with PIM or CMS systems.
• Proficiency with Excel or Google Sheets and SQL; basic scripting experience is required and Python is preferred.
• Strong analytical ability and excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Arabic.

About Snoonu

Perks and Worklife

• Snoonu highlights global collaboration, learning budgets, autonomy, flexible time off, and agile ways of working.
• The company states that it is Great Place to Work certified and holds ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 certifications.
• Snoonu also describes sustainability and community-focused initiatives.