Taxonomy Analyst, Internship at System1
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System1 is looking for a driven LIS graduate student to join us for a taxonomy analyst internship and work within our Taxonomy team. As a member of this taxonomy data team, you will help drive System1’s taxonomy initiatives forward, provide documentation into our taxonomy operations, and work with the product team to help our master data management efforts (MDM). You will be responsible for helping to develop controlled vocabularies and applying metadata in order to significantly improve search operations for internal SEM teams. You will also help to develop site taxonomies to support our organic search initiatives.
You, as a graduate student, will have an opportunity to learn the business value of taxonomy, metadata, & MDM from both a monetization and a process efficiency standpoint. Moreover, you will also understand the taxonomy operations to support the business value. In the case of System1’s taxonomy team, this includes hands on database management and SQL experience.
The Role You Will Have
- Taxonomy creation & maintenance
- Content tag/assign keywords to categories
- Help define metadata across the organization
- Support data enrichment efforts
- Create & maintain organizational data governance standards
- Apply new taxonomy and hierarchy designs using data collected from cross functional teams and competitive analysis
- Analyze website metrics and customer behavior data to make intelligent decisions around optimizing our taxonomy navigation structures
What You Will Bring
- iSchool Graduate Student
- Bachelor's Degree
- Strong problem solving and conceptual thinking abilities
- Desire to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment
- Comfortable in technical environments and eager to learn new systems as needed
- Willingness to learn data modeling, database management, and SQL
- Strong background in research and analysis, including the ability to evaluate source authority
- Ability to context switch between systems-level thinking and attention to minute details
What We Have To Offer
- Competitive Salary with 401k Safe Harbor Matching
- Unlimited Paid Sick Time, Competitive PTO and Benefits package
- Free Uber/Lyft to and from work every day!
- Collegial and collaborative team with highly intelligent and motivated coworkers
- Cross-team lunches and demos to foster learning
- Daily catered meals and fully stocked kitchen
- Bi-weekly happy hour at various bars, restaurants, and venues across Los Angeles
- Bi-weekly onsite happy hour
- Catered dinner on Tuesdays and Thursdays
- Weekly fitness class with private trainer: high intensity training, yoga, beach volleyball, beach soccer, ultimate frisbee
- Company parties and outings: Skyzone indoor skydiving, Medieval Times, Karaoke, etc.
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