Taxonomist

Summary

Join Canva's Content Review team as a Taxonomist and contribute to enhancing the Canva Content Library. This remote role focuses on improving automated metadata tagging, maintaining taxonomies for various digital media, and ensuring metadata quality. You will collaborate with engineering and design teams, conduct quality assurance checks, and lead projects to improve content management and user engagement. The ideal candidate possesses experience in metadata management, library systems, and cross-functional processes, along with strong analytical and communication skills. Canva values diverse skills and backgrounds, encouraging applications from individuals who may not perfectly match all listed requirements.

Requirements

• Have experience maintaining metadata, controlled vocabularies, and taxonomies
• Possess hands-on experience with library systems, content management systems, or preferred, digital asset management (DAM) systems
• Have experience with cross functional department processes
• Have strong analytical, prioritisation, interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Have excellent written and oral communication skills, with attention to detail
• Be excited about improving Canva’s public library metadata for all Canva users
• Be good at analysing metadata through multiple lenses and understanding the ambiguity and nuances of keywords & terms

Responsibilities

• Assist improving automated machine learning and artificial intelligence tagging solutions by working closely with engineering teams
• Maintain hierarchical taxonomies or classification systems for various types of digital media, such as photos, graphics, videos, audio files, etc
• Conduct quality assurance checks to verify the completeness and accuracy of automated metadata solutions
• Lead projects to leverage the taxonomy for innovations in content management and delivery, aiming to improve user engagement and satisfaction
• Conduct metadata annotations aimed at enhancing automated concept tagging systems for more accurate and efficient content classification and retrieval
• Ensure metadata quality for Canva’s content library is exceptional and constantly improving
• Stay up-to-date on industry standards, best practices, and emerging technologies related to digital media taxonomy and annotation
• Collaborate with Product, Design and Content Teams to improve metadata annotations systems and processes, and enhance search functionality and Canva user navigation
• Maintain a thorough understanding of contemporary events, cultural shifts, and news updates to drive continuous refinement and relevance in metadata
• Perform regular audits of Canva’s public library metadata - specifically Titles and Keywords - and make recommendations, adjustments to ensure the safety and accuracy of the metadata
• Gather and analyse feedback from users and stakeholders to continually improve the taxonomy and metadata systems

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with digital asset management (DAM) systems

Benefits

Remote work