E-commerce Taxonomy Specialist
Posted Today by Principle
£72,000 Per year
Undetermined
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The E-commerce Taxonomy Specialist role involves working within a specialist taxonomy team to enhance product metadata and support classification systems for a global technology organization. The position is focused on analyzing product data, enriching metadata, and ensuring consistent application of taxonomy governance standards. It requires a detail-oriented individual who thrives in a structured environment and can effectively communicate within distributed teams. The contract is set to run until the end of 2026, with potential for extension.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyse product and catalog data to identify exact and fuzzy matches
- Enrich and normalize product metadata such as brand and attributes
- Map data across multiple taxonomies and vocabularies
- Apply taxonomy governance standards consistently
- Work closely with engineers and ML partners to support classification systems
- Provide regular status updates to stakeholders
Key Skills:
- 2+ years developing taxonomies and/or ontologies
- Experience supporting front-end and back-end systems
- Ecommerce or catalog taxonomy exposure
- Strong attention to detail and structured thinking
- Confident communicator in distributed teams
- Degree in Library Science, Information Management, or Linguistics (nice to have)
- SQL or scripting for large datasets (nice to have)
- Experience supporting ML classification or annotation workflows (nice to have)
- Exposure to AI or prompt-based tooling (nice to have)
Salary (Rate): £72,000 yearly
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
E-commerce Taxonomy Specialist
Contract length: Due to run until 31/12/2026 with potential to extend
Salary: £72,000
Location: Remote in the UK
About the Role
We are supporting a global technology organisation that operates large-scale ecommerce and catalog systems used to power machine learning, discovery, and product classification. This role joins a specialist taxonomy team working on product metadata enrichment, normalization, and cross-taxonomy mapping . The position is delivery-focused and suited to a hands-on taxonomist who enjoys structured, detail-oriented work.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse product and catalog data to identify exact and fuzzy matches
- Enrich and normalize product metadata such as brand and attributes
- Map data across multiple taxonomies and vocabularies
- Apply taxonomy governance standards consistently
- Work closely with engineers and ML partners to support classification systems
- Provide regular status updates to stakeholders
Required Experience
- 2+ years developing taxonomies and/or ontologies
- Experience supporting front-end and back-end systems
- Ecommerce or catalog taxonomy exposure
- Strong attention to detail and structured thinking
- Confident communicator in distributed teams
Nice to Have
- Degree in Library Science, Information Management, or Linguistics
- SQL or scripting for large datasets
- Experience supporting ML classification or annotation workflows
- Exposure to AI or prompt-based tooling
Next steps to apply: Apply now with word document CV or email your CV to rory@principlehr.com for immediate review.