DoorDash
E-commerce
DataGovernanceSpecialist
“Data Governance Specialist at DoorDash. Skills: Taxonomy development, Ontology modeling, Classification systems. Build and maintain the metadata schema, attribute systems, and entity relationships within a global ontology platform. Design and maintain taxonomies across consumer domains including grocery, alcoholic beverages, apparel and more, ensuring alignment with attribute models”
What You'll Achieve.
Accelerate product development; Deliver high-quality consumer experiences; Improve the customer shopping experience across international markets
Industry & Context.
Solve problems from first principles; Ask the right questions of a dataset
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of experience in developing complex taxonomies, ontologies, or structured classification systems in real-world applications, Masters Degree in either Library and Information Science, Linguistics, Philosophy, or a related field, Proficiency in SQL
Nice to Have
Experience with AI tools such as Claude Code and Cursor to accelerate problem-solving, analysis, or workflow execution, Familiarity with graph-based or triple-store systems (e.g., RDF, SPARQL)
What You'll Do.
Build and maintain the metadata schema
and entity relationships within a global ontology platform
Design and maintain taxonomies across consumer domains including grocery
ensuring alignment with attribute models
Develop and apply best practices for taxonomy and ontology modeling
including hierarchy design
attribute standardization
and relationship definition
Identify and address gaps in catalog quality
and discoverability across international markets
Evolve and scale taxonomy and ontology systems for New Verticals
aligning and unifying structures across DoorDash
Wolt and Deliveroo markets
Contribute to strategic initiatives that strengthen merchant catalogs and improve the customer shopping experience across international markets
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner cross-functionally with Product, Operations, Analytics, and regional teams to design and operationalize taxonomy and ontology solutions globally; Work closely with Strategy & Operations, Machine Learning, Engineering, Product, and Data Science partners
Communication Scope
Communicate findings clearly
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