Senior Manager, Taxonomy & Ontology

Role Overview

• Partner closely with CoE leadership, metadata governance colleagues, and business clients to develop and document ontology and taxonomy requirements across content domains.
• Design, maintain, and evolve the enterprise ontology, including controlled vocabularies, hierarchical structures, semantic relationships, and metadata schemas to support title, editorial, physical, and production workflows.
• Ideate and develop workflow improvements and efficiencies through enhanced ontology integration, improved systems functionality, and new technology adoption (including AI-powered metadata enrichment and knowledge graph applications).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including but not limited to, Engineering, Programming, Global Content Operations, and Enterprise Data Governance —to define metadata problem statements, roadmaps, and priorities; review development and manage issue remediation.
• Provide operational and technical leadership for ontology and taxonomy implementation, ensuring accuracy, interoperability, and scalability of metadata models and governance workflows.
• Develop and implement metadata governance best practices, structural standards, and enterprise policy for ontology and taxonomy usage.
• Perform extensive analysis across large volumes of WBD metadata to validate semantic alignment, identify gaps, and refine ontology structures across all content supply chain systems.
• Execute ontology-driven data mapping, modeling, and optimization of central metadata structures across multiple enterprise systems.
• Analyze and act on daily global requests for metadata modeling, vocabulary additions, structure enhancements, and alignment with the authoritative ontology.
• Work with global stakeholders to respond to inquiries, troubleshoot metadata structural conflicts, and ensure consistency of metadata interpretation and application.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in ontology design, taxonomy management, metadata architecture, data governance, or data modeling.
• Master’s degree in Library & Information Science, knowledge management, computer science, data governance, or a related field.
• Written and spoken English fluency required.
• 1–2 years of experience in the media industry preferred, with familiarity in media metadata and content workflows.
• Experience with ontology modeling, taxonomy management applications, semantic schema development, or controlled vocabulary design is highly advantageous.
• Appreciation for global media content and understanding of content metadata structures is beneficial.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to organize, plan, and prioritize work in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Professional development opportunities