Apply on Employer Site

The New York Times · 8 hours ago

Data Taxonomist, Data Platforms

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$96K/yr - $110K/yr

5+ years exp

The New York Times is committed to independent journalism and seeks a Data Taxonomist to empower the organization in accessing and using data effectively. The role involves developing data taxonomies, managing data across domains, and collaborating with various teams to enhance data quality and governance.

Digital MediaJournalismNews

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Provide frameworks, training, and guidance to individuals across the organization to define data taxonomies and models

Establish data management frameworks that provide clear recommendations and requirements for data producers, while also working with data platform team to integrate into capabilities

Embed and work with data platform teams to build governance into core capabilities

Develop and maintain an enterprise data taxonomy that classifies and categorizes data across business domains, ensuring consistency and usability

Create standards and processes for consistent labeling, categorization, and tagging of The NYT data

Maintain and oversee data catalog with accurate definitions, business logic/rules, and metadata for different data elements

Establish and enforce standard data models for events and tracking across engagement data, ensuring event consistency and use in event tracking implementations across the organization

Develop processes to maintain and evolve data taxonomies and data models that allow us to pilot and iteratively test data models/taxonomies using data

Run and provide oversight for any governance or data councils (ex: metrics council)

Advocate for information architecture best practices across the organization

Establish master data management

Maintain, update, and evolve our enterprise data and metrics catalogs in partnership with domain data analysts

Identify evolving data needs across domains, extending and evolving the data taxonomy and models

Collaborate with different teams to understand domain needs, maintain data models, and oversee the implementation of data governance standards

Improve data quality, identifies issues, and develops solutions to comply with regulatory requirements

Document data management standards and supports business stewards

Assist teams with event tracking support and understanding

Monitor domains with KPIs of data governance, quality, integration, security, and analytics

Develop domain-specific documentation such as Data Use Cases and Data Flow Diagrams

Provide support and training to the business regarding data governance and modeling

Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world

Qualification

Data Taxonomy DevelopmentData Management FrameworksData Governance PracticesJSONSQLPythonEvent TrackingProgram ManagementAnalytical SkillsTraining SkillsCollaboration SkillsCommunication SkillsDocumentation SkillsProblem Solving

Required

5+ years of developing taxonomies and information architecture for front-end and back-end use cases

3+ years working with data taxonomies, data management, or data governance

Expertise with JSON, YAML, relational data modeling, and other data modeling languages and tools

2+ years of working with event-based and behavioral/engagement data, including designing and managing event tracking plans

Program management skills with organized and transparent working style

2+ years of experience working with product teams, data engineers, data scientists, and analysts to manage their data

Excellent skills using SQL, Python, and other data wrangling tools and languages

Applied knowledge of industry-leading data governance, quality, and data management practices and tools

Preferred

Proficiency with GCP, AWS, or other big data environments

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision benefits

Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)

A company-matching 401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Paid sick days

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development programs

Company

The New York Times

The New York Times is powered by the idea that independent, deeply reported journalism fuels a healthy and engaged society.

Founded in 1851

New York, New York, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.nytco.com/

H1B Sponsorship

The New York Times has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

Represents job field similar to this job

Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (40)

2024 (20)

2023 (21)

2022 (36)

2021 (27)

2020 (36)