Job Overview
Location
London - The River Building HQ
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Data & Analytics
Date Posted
May 16, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Design, develop, and maintain global taxonomies and ontologies for consumer domains including grocery, alcoholic beverages, apparel, and other New Verticals categories across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo.
- • Build and govern metadata schemas, attribute systems, and entity relationships within a unified global ontology platform to support merchant catalogs, customer search, and product discovery.
- • Define and standardize hierarchical structures, attribute definitions, and entity relationships to ensure consistency, completeness, and discoverability of catalog data across international markets.
- • Identify and resolve gaps in catalog quality, completeness, and taxonomy alignment across regions, improving accuracy and usability of product classifications.
- • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Operations, and regional teams to operationalize taxonomy solutions that enhance merchant onboarding and customer shopping experiences.
- • Evolve taxonomy systems to unify structures across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo markets, ensuring scalable, consistent classification frameworks for emerging verticals.
- • Apply best practices in ontology modeling, including hierarchy design, synonym management, attribute standardization, and relationship mapping to support machine learning and analytics use cases.
- • Partner with Machine Learning and Data Science teams to ensure taxonomy outputs enable accurate product recommendations, search ranking, and ad targeting systems.
- • Operate hands-on with taxonomy and ontology management tools such as Graphite, PoolParty, or Graphologi to configure, validate, and deploy classification systems at scale.
- • Use data from multiple sources to assess catalog quality, identify trends, and inform taxonomy improvements—leveraging SQL, BI tools, or AI-assisted analysis as needed.
- • Translate business requirements from regional teams into globally consistent taxonomy rules while accommodating local market nuances and regulatory requirements.
- • Contribute to strategic initiatives that expand merchant catalog coverage, improve search relevance, and drive growth in New Verticals through enhanced product classification.
- • Work directly with operational teams to ground-truth taxonomy logic by observing real-world merchant and customer interactions in stores and delivery environments.
- • Document taxonomy rules, governance workflows, and change management procedures to ensure transparency, auditability, and long-term maintainability of classification systems.
- • Stay current with evolving standards in information architecture, semantic web technologies, and AI-driven classification to continuously improve taxonomy accuracy and scalability.
- • Serve as the primary taxonomy authority for the Global New Verticals Catalog team, providing guidance and training to product and operations teams on correct classification practices.
- • Drive adoption of standardized taxonomies across merchant onboarding, catalog enrichment, and data ingestion pipelines to reduce manual correction and improve automation rates.
- • Measure taxonomy performance through key metrics such as catalog coverage, search success rate, and classification error rates, and iterate based on data-driven insights.
🎯 Requirements
- • 5+ years of experience in developing complex taxonomies, ontologies, or structured classification systems in real-world applications
- • Experience with taxonomy or ontology management tools such as Graphite, PoolParty, or Graphologi
- • Masters Degree in Library and Information Science, Linguistics, Philosophy, or a related field
- • Proven ability to design taxonomies that support navigation, search, discovery, and analytics at scale
- • Strong analytical skills with experience working with data across multiple sources and communicating findings clearly
- • Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Operations teams
🏖️ Benefits
- • Premium healthcare
- • Wellness expense reimbursement
- • Paid parental leave
Skills & Technologies
Go
Onsite
Degree Required
About Deliveroo Holdings plc
Deliveroo operates an online food-delivery marketplace connecting consumers with restaurants and grocery retailers through a logistics network of riders. Founded in 2013 in London, the platform processes orders via mobile and web, manages dispatch, and provides data analytics to partners. Revenue comes from commissions, delivery fees, and subscription memberships. It serves urban markets across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East, holding licenses as a technology intermediary and courier service provider.
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