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The vision of Amazon Business Catalog Taxonomy Team (ABCT) is to empower large enterprise customers to manage, audit and plan their spend by providing them tools based on a collection of standardized, semantically rich, extensible and universally applicable product taxonomies. In the B2B e-commerce space, customers are particularly interested in using externally developed and industry standard taxonomies for product categorizations in order to manage and plan their inventory. Amazon Business’s vision is to support a diverse pool of taxonomy-based product categorizations so that it serves as the premier destination for these customers.
As an Ontologist, you will work on a global team of knowledge builders to help us consistently interpret these taxonomies (like UNSPSC, E-Class, etc.) and create a unified taxonomy to help translate product categorizations across taxonomies to meet the diverse needs of customers in the B2B space. Moreover, you will help create crisp guidelines on how to categorize products using a combination of human in the loop systems. You will also be responsible for driving the opinion on how to evolve these taxonomies to meet the growing needs of our customers.
Key job responsibilities
* Help to consistently interpret the intent behind industry standard taxonomies like UNSPSC, E-Class, etc.
* Develop logical, semantically rich, and extensible data models for Amazon's expansive product catalog to seamlessly categorize products across multiple taxonomies, while expanding the canonical taxonomy to meet the evolving needs of our customers.
* Research worldwide understanding of Amazon products to develop scalable data models that solve customer problems and enhance product discoverability
* Expand existing data retrieval techniques by utilizing our extensive product catalog and query languages
* Analyze website metrics and product discovery behaviors to make data-driven decisions on optimizing our knowledge graph data models globally
* Contribute to the development of new tool features and processes for the Ontology team
* Drive alignment to ontology modeling and technology best practices and principles within our organization and across Amazon
* Coordinate cross-functional projects with a broad range of technical and non-technical teams
About the team
Our team has a global presence and we celebrate diverse cultures and backgrounds within our team and our customer base. We are committed to fostering our culture of inclusion, offering continuous access to internal affinity groups as well as highlighting diversity programs. We care about your career growth, to continuously support throughout your entire career at Amazon. We recognize each team member as an individual, and we will build on your skills to help you grow. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we are building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing.
