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 product categories and brands across grocery, alcoholic beverages, apparel, and other new verticals on DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo platforms.
- • Build and govern metadata schemas and attribute systems that support search, discovery, navigation, and analytics at scale across international markets.
- • Define and standardize entity relationships within a global ontology platform to ensure consistency and accuracy in merchant catalog data.
- • Identify and resolve gaps in catalog quality, completeness, and discoverability by analyzing consumer behavior, merchant offerings, and regional market nuances.
- • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Operations, and regional teams to operationalize taxonomy solutions aligned with business objectives.
- • Evolve and unify taxonomy structures across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo to create cohesive, scalable catalog systems that support a unified global platform.
- • Apply best practices in hierarchy design, attribute standardization, and relationship modeling to improve product classification and consumer experience.
- • Work directly with real-world catalog data to inform taxonomy decisions, including hands-on review of merchant listings and consumer search patterns.
- • Lead initiatives to enhance merchant catalogs by improving categorization accuracy, reducing ambiguity, and increasing product discoverability.
- • Leverage taxonomy and ontology management tools (e.g., Graphite, PoolParty, Graphologi) to implement and maintain structured classification systems.
- • Use data from multiple sources (e.g., SQL, BI tools, AI-assisted analysis) to validate taxonomy effectiveness, measure catalog performance, and drive iterative improvements.
- • Contribute to strategic programs that expand the platform beyond food delivery into retail, convenience, and alcohol delivery by building robust foundational data structures.
- • Translate complex business requirements into technical taxonomy specifications that support machine learning models, recommendation engines, and search algorithms.
- • Ensure taxonomy governance includes clear ownership, version control, and change management processes across global teams.
- • Support the growth of the platform’s fourth side—Advertisers—by enabling precise product targeting through accurate metadata and categorization.
- • Maintain deep alignment between local market realities and global taxonomy frameworks to ensure cultural and linguistic relevance in product classification.
- • Communicate taxonomy changes and their impact clearly to non-technical stakeholders through data-driven insights and visualizations.
- • Drive innovation by challenging existing classification norms and proposing first-principles solutions to evolving catalog challenges.
- • Participate in end-to-end product development cycles, from requirement gathering to deployment, ensuring taxonomy integrity at every stage.
- • Stay current with industry trends in metadata standards, ontology design, and AI-enhanced classification to continuously improve system capabilities.
- • Train and support regional teams on taxonomy usage, data entry standards, and catalog quality processes to ensure global consistency.
- • Scale taxonomy systems to handle millions of products across diverse categories and geographies without compromising accuracy or performance.
🎯 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
- • Completed a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science, Linguistics, Philosophy, or a related field
- • Demonstrated ability to work with data across multiple sources using tools such as SQL, BI tools, or AI-assisted analysis
- • Proven track record of designing taxonomies that support navigation, search, discovery, and analytics at scale
- • Strong operational mindset with ability to work at granular detail while maintaining strategic vision
🏖️ 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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