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Taxonomist

Do you enjoy organizing information and structuring knowledge that describes the world around you? Are you passionate about travel? Then we look forward to talking to you. Our team culture provides a safe environment to spark your creativity and encourage continuous learning and growth.

The Content Platform provides a portfolio of products to revolutionize traveller experiences throughout the customer journey. We work across Expedia Group (EG)’s diverse portfolio of brands and lines of business. We assemble, maintain, and distribute content assets including Media, Text, Reviews, Property Data, Geographical Data, Destination Data, and more. Through innovative knowledge-based systems and machine learning models we synthesize unique insights to answer questions about travel.

The Content Systems team, established in Montreal over 10 years ago, is dedicated to delivering high quality and relevant content at scale. We recognize that a well conceptualized Taxonomy is foundational in providing relevance for data tagging and we are enhancing our digital environment to improve our delivery of the right content to the right customer at the right time.

We provide concept management and distribution capabilities that are based on fully semantic technologies and principles. We build vocabularies and define logical relationships and constraints between concepts. The common vocabulary we curate provides a consistent language across Expedia, used by humans and machines.

What you’ll do:

Perform tasks related to onboarding and training of new business users of our taxonomy tool
Perform tasks related to gathering and analysis of business requirements
Maintain and support curated taxonomies, perform data quality validation and upkeep documentation as needed
Assist in delivering focused solutions based on the user experience principles of relevancy, simplicity, and consistency
Develop an understanding of the impacts and dependencies of content decisions across product flows and systems

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $105,500.00 to $148,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $169,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.