Taxonomist & Information Strategist – New Verticals Global Catalog

📋 Description

• • Design, develop, and maintain global taxonomies and ontologies for consumer domains including grocery, alcoholic beverages, apparel, and other new verticals across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo platforms.
• • Build and govern metadata schemas, attribute systems, and entity relationships within a scalable global ontology platform to enhance catalog quality and consumer discoverability.
• • Align taxonomy structures across international markets to unify product categorization and ensure consistency in merchant and customer experiences.
• • Identify gaps in catalog completeness, accuracy, and discoverability by analyzing data from multiple sources and collaborating with regional operations teams.
• • Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Strategy & Operations teams to operationalize taxonomy solutions that support search, navigation, analytics, and machine learning models.
• • Apply best practices in hierarchy design, attribute standardization, and relationship definition to improve classification precision and scalability.
• • Evolve existing taxonomy frameworks to accommodate emerging verticals and adapt to changing consumer behaviors and merchant offerings.
• • Work hands-on with real-world catalog data to inform strategic decisions, ensuring taxonomies reflect local business realities and consumer expectations.
• • Contribute to strategic initiatives that strengthen merchant catalogs and directly impact customer shopping experiences across all three markets.
• • Operate at both strategic and granular levels, balancing long-term taxonomy governance with day-to-day data validation and correction tasks.
• • Use analytical tools (SQL, BI platforms, AI-assisted analysis) to evaluate catalog performance, detect inconsistencies, and measure the impact of taxonomy changes.
• • Leverage ontology management tools such as Graphite, PoolParty, or Graphologi to model, visualize, and maintain complex classification systems.
• • Document taxonomy rules, governance processes, and entity definitions to ensure transparency and enable cross-team adoption.
• • Advocate for data-driven decision-making by translating complex classification challenges into clear insights for non-technical stakeholders.
• • Support the growth of DoorDash’s fourth side—Advertisers—by enabling precise product targeting through accurate taxonomy structures.
• • Drive alignment between global taxonomy standards and local market nuances, ensuring cultural and regulatory relevance in product categorization.
• • Act as a subject matter expert on classification systems, advising teams on taxonomy implications for product features, search relevance, and merchandising.
• • Continuously improve taxonomy quality by monitoring feedback loops from merchants, customers, and internal systems.
• • Contribute to the unification of catalog structures across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo to create a cohesive global commerce platform.