As a member of our growing professional services team, you will work on a variety of taxonomy, information architecture, content management, and knowledge management projects for a wide range of high-end clients. As a senior-level practitioner, you will be expected to lead segments of a project, work directly with clients, negotiate and harmonize with colleagues, and drive a point of view for achieving project objectives.This is a unique opportunity to help guide, influence, and improve client’s information architectures and significantly transform our clients’ businesses. In this role you will work on specific client projects as well as help establish company-wide best practices and develop methodologies for all projects.
Technical Requirements:
- Developing, mapping, evaluating, and maintaining taxonomies.
- Lead taxonomy implementations including taxonomy framework analysis and taxonomy development.
- Providing training on taxonomy maintenance, tagging, or tool use.
- Support integration of content-, document-, taxonomy-management tools, search engines etc.
- Lead projects to conducting user research, usability testing, and taxonomy refinement.
- Conducting content audits and content analysis.
- Developing metadata schemas, tagging, conducting metadata audits.
- Strong understanding and application of Web technologies. Experience with taxonomy, metadata, controlled vocabularies, classification, analyzing search logs and Web metrics
Qualifications:
- A minimum of 5 years’ of taxonomy development experience, including leadership roles in client engagements.
- Strong client relationship skills and thought-leadership abilities, Ability to represent company and team to client.
- Proven ability to design and lead discovery activities including stakeholder interviews, user inquiry, website and business performance metrics audits, and taxonomy development workshops
- Hands-on experience with taxonomy development project deliverables.
- Experience in working closely with business, technical and process analysts.
- First rate interpersonal and communication skills. with excellent attention to detail.
- Experience in team environments and consulting experience.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Excellent organizational skills & time management. Proficient in all Microsoft Office Tools.
- Ability to work independently from your home office
- Availability to travel to onsite locations when required (estimated at 30%)
Other desired qualifications include:
- Experience with taxonomy-management systems.
- Experience with Content Management and/or Digital Asset Management Systems.
- Experience managing content for large Web sites.
- Experience doing user research and usability testing.
- Experience preparing business or technical documentation.
A Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) or comparable degree is strongly preferred.
To apply, please email your introduction, resume and compensation requirements to: Joyce Gavenda(joyce@earley.com)
To learn more about our company, please visit our web site www.earley.com.