Taxonomist, Supply Domain

We’re looking for a taxonomist to join the Supply domain on a full time basis. 

Vinted’s Supply domain drives the seller experience at Vinted, by developing easy listing experiences that produce high quality, searchable listings that sell fast. You’ll be working within the Category Experience team, a cross-functional group of taxonomists, decision scientists, and product managers. Our goal is to enhance Vinted’s listing, browsing, search, and item retrieval. As a taxonomist, you will build the structural logic for navigation, search relevance, listing quality, and product expansion, ensuring a coherent, seamless, and relevant end-to-end category experience.These data models and structures help Vinted’s buyers find unique items and grow Vinted's global business. You’d be joining our team at a critical time: we are adapting our data models and systems to better support Vinted’s transformation into a multi-vertical marketplace. 

As part of taxonomy projects, you will research, design, implement, and evaluate ontology and taxonomy changes. Your goal will be to promote and balance the needs of sellers and buyers in our C2C marketplace, as well as machine learning models. You will work closely with internal teams to explore alternative ways of modelling our data.

This role is perfect for someone who has experience designing and implementing taxonomies and ontologies, especially in an eCommerce environment.

In this position, you will:

• Design, revise, and maintain buyer and seller-facing product taxonomies and navigation, across a wide range of product verticals
• Design, implement, and maintain ontologies and data structures that support our member-facing content
• Balance Vinted’s Member experience with taxonomy and metadata heuristics while maintaining Vinted’s tone and voice.
• Research and build product attributes to help buyers narrow their search, and sellers describe their items.
• Work with user research and data analysts to build and test taxonomies and metadata structures for the most impactful results.
• Document internal standards, workflows, governance processes, and data models.
• Collaborate and connect with a wide range of internal teams including: engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, legal, policy, communications, localisation, and customer support.

About You:

• Experience in developing taxonomies and/or ontologies to support a variety of systems both for front-end and back-end use.
• Ability to clearly articulate the benefits of taxonomy and structured data to audiences of different knowledge levels and backgrounds.
• Experience with evaluating and implementing taxonomies to support search systems, content management systems, metadata schemes, digital asset management systems, or product classification.
• Experience building taxonomies for machine learning classification systems.
• Strong logical thinker who loves finding practical solutions for users.
• Fluency in taxonomy and ontology design principles, as well as information architecture.
• Basic SQL and Excel/Google Sheets skills.
• Experience with AI driven solutions
• Strong communication skills, including excellent written and spoken English. 
• Bonus: Fluency in other Vinted market languages such as French, German, Spanish, Dutch or Italian.Bonus: Experience working in eCommerce environments
• Bonus: Proficiency in ontology or knowledge graph development (e.g. RDF, OWL, and related tools)