DoorDash

Technology

KnowledgeArchitect

London, United Kingdom FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Knowledge Architect at DoorDash. Skills: Taxonomy development, Ontology development, Classification systems, Metadata schema, Attribute systems, Entity relationships, SQL. 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.

Empowering and growing local economies; Accelerate product development; Deliver high-quality consumer experiences; Strengthen merchant catalogs; Improve the customer shopping experience

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Solve problems from first principles; Work with data across multiple sources; Ask the right questions of a dataset; Accelerate problem-solving, analysis, or workflow execution

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

Full Job Description

About the Team Our New Verticals Strategy & Operations team is re-inventing the way consumers think about grocery, convenience, alcohol and retail delivery through both our first-party and third-party operations businesses. The Global Catalog team plays a critical role in shaping DoorDash’s e-commerce strategy, leading some of the company’s most strategic programs to drive catalog excellence. Their work is highly visible and impactful—spanning the entire New Verticals catalog across DoorDash, Deliveroo, and Wolt—and influences tens of millions of items on the platform. ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking to hire an experienced Taxonomist to join the Global New Verticals Catalog team across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo. This role will focus on developing and improving the processes and models that power DoorDash’s three-sided marketplace—Merchants, Dashers, and Customers—as well as its emerging fourth side, Advertisers, with the goal of empowering and growing local economies. Achieving this requires a deep understanding of local businesses, the products and services they offer, and the consumers who interact with them. A strong grasp of the global ecosystem is essential to building and mapping complex taxonomies and entity relationships within local economies. This includes the design, implementation, and governance of large-scale taxonomies to accelerate product development and deliver high-quality consumer experiences.   As a Taxonomist on the Global Catalog team, this role will be responsible for Product Categories and Brands taxonomies, as well as the broader attribute platform. The position will work closely with Strategy & Operations, Machine Learning, Engineering, Product, and Data Science partners.   YOU’RE EXCITED ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE YOU WILL… - 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 bevera

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