Integral Ad Science (IAS)is a global technology and data company that builds verification, optimization, and analytics solutions for the advertising industry and we’re looking for an AI Taxonomistto join our Data Science team. If you are excited by technology that has the power to handle hundreds of thousands of transactions per second; collect tens of billions of events each day; and evaluate thousands of data-points in real-time all while responding in just a few milliseconds, then IAS is the place for you!
As an AI Taxonomist at IAS, you will be part of a team that is a center of innovation for the company and a major contributor to the company's core products. You will collaborate with our product management, UX, and market research teams on the strategic planning and design of taxonomies in the brand safety domain for advertising inventory across open web, social networks, video/CTV, and mobile apps. As part of the Data Quality and Ontology Services team within the data science organization, you will be responsible for the defensible implementation, validation, and management of all taxonomies in the media analytics space, supported by either machine learning or rule-based systems. You will bring expertise in following taxonomy management best practices, metadata and vocabulary standards, and build cross-functional relationships. You will be expected to be an experienced taxonomist able to quickly expand knowledge domains.
What you’ll get to do
- Utilize industry best practices for taxonomy development and maintenance.
- Consult with internal product partners to expand our taxonomy to support product and business goals while remaining faithful to underlying structures.
- Represent IAS in industry working groups and other events, managing IAS industry relations.
- Monitor industry trends and best practices in brand safety, including user-generated content platform moderation policies
- Influence data labeling processes to support taxonomy-based classification systems
- Train internal editorial resources on best practices in data labeling to support taxonomy-driven machine learning classifiers.
You should apply if you have most of of this experience:
- Master’s Degree in Information Science, Data Science or Information Management, or related disciplines.
- 5+ years of experience in developing categories and concepts within taxonomies, tagging systems, ontologies, or other classification schemes to support a variety of systems both for front-end and back-end use.
- Good to have: strong, demonstrable experience with social media platform trust and safety and community policies.
- Experience with evaluating and implementing taxonomies to support systems such as search systems, content management systems, digital asset management systems, or product classification.
- Experience with a variety of topic/domain types and complexity of taxonomies.
- Experience with creating robust documentation of complex business concepts.
- Experience communicating, documenting and presenting taxonomy principles and standards.
- Familiarity with languages such as Python and SQL
- Familiarity and interest in cutting-edge issues in advertising technology.
- Experience working in an agile environment, following priorities and business processes.
- Great communication and presentation skills, team-oriented.
About Integral Ad Science
Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a leading global media measurement and optimization platform that delivers the industry’s most actionable data to drive superior results for the world’s largest advertisers, publishers, and media platforms. IAS’s software provides comprehensive and enriched data that ensures ads are seen by real people in safe and suitable environments, while improving return on ad spend for advertisers and yield for publishers. Our mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality. For more information, visit integralads.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
IAS is an equal opportunity employer, committed to our diversity and inclusiveness. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability or age. We strongly encourage women, people of color, members of the LGBTQIA community, people with disabilities and veterans to apply.
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