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Job Description

This position will be the product and process champion for managing content in a major new online search application. The individual will be responsible for creating a comprehensive metadata strategy which will include acquisition, quality handling and enhancement (e.g. normalization, entity extraction, taxonomy mapping, etc.). The position will play a significant role in designing and developing a new line of products and services as well as related administrative applications.

Responsibilities

• Research customer and end-user needs and identify related opportunities
  
• Envision, design, articulate and oversee development of methods for managing content and metadata (from a variety of sources and in disparate formats) in order to enable optimal search, recall, refinement and navigation
  
• Create detailed use cases, design requirements, and marketing requirements from a content and functionality perspective
• Participate in product development team throughout development and consult closely with software development staff to convey requirements, understand and work within technical constraints, and optimize the effectiveness of design implementations
  
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with vendors and partners to ensure product performance for mutual customers where interoperability is required
  
• Develop hands-on, in-depth knowledge of competitive products and maintain technical analysis of competitive strengths and weaknesses
  
• Monitor user feedback as well as market and technology trends to continually identify opportunities for improvement

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in content management, working with online publishing of content or as a metadata librarian
  
• Knowledge of public and academic libraries or a degree in library or information science
  
• Familiarity with web applications, search technologies and the software development process
  
• Experience working with metadata structures (XML, MARC, DC, METS, etc.) and some familiarity with data mining/entity extraction technology
  
• Knowledge of library information retrieval systems
  
• Ability to work in a start-up environment with a skeleton staff initially and very ambitious goals
• Must be self-motivated, able to work independently and thrive in a fast-paced, multi-tasking cross-functional team environment while maintaining excellent working relationships with people in a wide variety of functional areas
  
• Awareness of library standards (e.g. FRBR, AACR2, OAI, OpenURL, DOI, etc), information industry organizations (e.g. NISO, CrossRef, DAOJ, etc), and also a basic appreciation for ILS, OPAC and courseware applications is preferred
  
• High level of interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills as well as basic technical writing skills
  
• Bachelors degree required, masters degree in library or information science highly desirable
  
• Ability to travel 15%

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