Information Architect: Ontology and Strategy

Job Description:

THE OPPORTUNITY 

This role is a 2-year project end date position. We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented individual to join our team as an Information Architect: Ontology and Strategy. As an Information Architect: Ontology and Strategy you will play a crucial role in creating the Scholastic Knowledge Graph. This role is essential in ensuring that we have meaningful topical and educational standard relationships in our content, and that the connections can be programmatically generated. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating and maintaining the knowledge graph, that meets the needs of our authors, platform teams, and students and teachers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive strategy for the Platform Content Knowledge Graph, including the creation of topic taxonomies and ontologies.

• Centralize the management of taxonomies, vocabularies, ontologies in a vocabulary management tool, ensuring standardization and interoperability with existing Scholastic technologies.

• Develop guidelines and build measurement frameworks that set quality standards for semantic models, content tagging, and standards alignment.

• Lead evaluation of AI initiatives to create training sets for future automation of Topic Extraction and suggested tagging of content.

• Ensure integration of Knowledge Graph with Search for powering discovery, including facets and filters.

• Manage the alignment of educational standards to Scholastic content while developing processes and opportunities to influence through automation and scale

• Develop and refine related data governance and processes.

WHO WE ARE

Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) is the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books, a leading provider of core literacy curriculum and professional services, and a producer of educational and entertaining children's media. The Company creates quality books and ebooks, print and technology-based learning programs for pre-K to grade 12, classroom magazines and other products and services that support children's learning both in school and at home. With operations in 14 international offices and exports to 165 countries, Scholastic makes quality, affordable books available to all children around the world through school-based book clubs and book fairs, classroom collections, school and public libraries, retail and online. True to its mission of 100+ years to encourage the personal and intellectual growth of all children beginning with literacy, the Company has earned a reputation as a trusted partner to educators and families. Learn more at www.scholastic.com.

Some benefits that we offer:

• Full suite of health and wellness benefits (including a $0 deductible Medical Plan)

• Retirement Savings Plan 401(k) with options for both Roth and Traditional Contributions

• Tuition-Free programs for undergraduate and graduate degrees

• Generous Parental Leave Program

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with opportunity for discounted stock at a 15% discount

Thank you for your consideration in choosing Scholastic.

Qualifications

HOW YOU CAN FIT (Qualifications)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Demonstrable experience in developing mappings and transformation processes to take data from a relational paradigm into a knowledge graph environment.

• Experience utilizing graph data in a machine learning environment.

•  Ability to quickly understand complex processes and communicate them in simple language.

•  Experience creating and communicating technical requirements to engineering teams.

•  Ability to communicate to senior leadership (Director and VP levels).

• Experience working in Generative AI, prompt engineering, evaluation, annotation, and/or content labeling and analysis.

•  Knowledge of Semantic Web technologies (RDF/s, OWL), query languages (SPARQL) and validation/reasoning standards (SHACL, SPIN).

•  Knowledge of open-source and commercial ontology engineering editors (e.g. Protege, TopQuadrant products, PoolParty).

• Experience in educational technology, educational publishing, or media.

Experience: 10 years of relevant work experience working in knowledge management, ontology and/or taxonomy roles.

Education: Master’s Degree in Library Science, Information Systems, Linguistics or equivalent professional experience.

Time Type:Full timeJob Type:RegularJob Family Group:Internet/E-CommerceLocation Region/State:New YorkCompensation Range:Annual Salary: 135,000.00 - 150,000.00EEO Statement:

Scholastic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam veteran. Those factors shall not influence the determination of qualifications for a job or other opportunity within the company. Further, all personnel actions (such as compensation, tuition aid, benefits, transfers, promotions, and dismissals, company-sponsored training, social and recreational programs) shall be administered without discrimination.

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