Taxonomist, Supply

Vinted’s Supply domain drives the seller experience at Vinted, by developing easy listing experiences that produce high quality, searchable listings that sell fast. You’ll be working within the team, a cross-functional group of taxonomists, decision scientists, and product managers. Our goal is to enhance Vinted’s listing, browsing, search, and item retrieval. As a taxonomist, you will build the structural logic for navigation, search relevance, listing quality, and product expansion, ensuring a coherent, seamless, and relevant end-to-end category experience.These data models and structures help Vinted’s buyers find unique items and grow Vinted's global business. You’d be joining our team at a critical time: we are adapting our data models and systems to better support Vinted’s transformation into a multi-vertical marketplace. 

As part of taxonomy projects, you will research, design, implement, and evaluate ontology and taxonomy changes. Your goal will be to promote and balance the needs of sellers and buyers in our C2C marketplace, as well as machine learning models. You will work closely with internal teams to explore alternative ways of modelling our data.

This role is perfect for someone who has experience designing and implementing taxonomies and ontologies, especially in an eCommerce environment.

• Design, revise, and maintain buyer and seller-facing product taxonomies and navigation, across a wide range of product verticals
• Design, implement, and maintain ontologies and data structures that support our member-facing content
• Balance Vinted’s Member experience with taxonomy and metadata heuristics while maintaining Vinted’s tone and voice.
• Research and build product attributes to help buyers narrow their search, and sellers describe their items.
• Work with user research and data analysts to build and test taxonomies and metadata structures for the most impactful results.
• Document internal standards, workflows, governance processes, and data models.
• Collaborate and connect with a wide range of internal teams including: engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, legal, policy, communications, localisation, and customer support.

• Experience in developing taxonomies and/or ontologies to support a variety of systems both for front-end and back-end use.
• Ability to clearly articulate the benefits of taxonomy and structured data to audiences of different knowledge levels and backgrounds.
• Experience with evaluating and implementing taxonomies to support search systems, content management systems, metadata schemes, digital asset management systems, or product classification.
• Experience building taxonomies for machine learning classification systems.
• Strong logical thinker who loves finding practical solutions for users.
• Fluency in taxonomy and ontology design principles, as well as information architecture.
• Basic SQL and Excel/Google Sheets skills.
• Experience with AI driven solutions
• Strong communication skills, including excellent written and spoken English. 
• Bonus: Fluency in other Vinted market languages such as French, German, Spanish, Dutch or Italian.Bonus: Experience working in eCommerce environments
• Bonus: Proficiency in ontology or knowledge graph development (e.g. RDF, OWL, and related tools)

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 30 days of paid annual leave
• Newest MacBook models
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Lunch benefit per your workday
• Frequent team-building events
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• Access to a discounted gym membership plan
• Pension Plan with Vinted matching 150% of your chosen contribution
• Supplemental Private Health Insurance
• Life and Disability insurance
• A subsidised Deutschlandticket for your commute to the office by public transport
• The opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workation
• A dog-friendly office

Individual Learning Budget

We invest in your professional growth! As part of our commitment to continuous learning, we offer an annual learning budget to support your personal and career development through courses, certifications, workshops and more.

Hybrid Work

We’ve adopted a hybrid workplace model where 2 days in the office are recommended but not enforced. It’s up to you and your team to decide on the exact days you’ll spend working together in person.

Equal Opportunity

The Vinted Group is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and life experiences. At Vinted, all applicants are treated fairly without regard to their race, age, religion or belief, sex, national origin, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.