• Collaborate with leadership in the development of long-term, sustainable strategic initiatives • Provide leadership, coaching, and professional guidance to Taxonomist / Ontologists • General people management and administrative activities as member of CKM and Service Enablement leadership teams • Lead strategy related to taxonomy, ontology, information architecture, metadata management, labeling/cataloging projects, and knowledge modeling within Airbnb’s CS organization • Consult with CS stakeholders to support Knowledge Management (KM) strategy, grounded LLMs, and data-driven community support • Collaborate closely with leadership external to CS (Data Management, Infra, etc.) to develop sustainable, scalable solutions for semantic data at Airbnb • Guide the development of the Taxonomist / Ontologist career function at Airbnb • Partner closely with Product / Eng to develop Airbnb’s enterprise Taxonomy / Ontology Platform • Represent Taxonomy / Ontology function at a leadership level • Support day-to-day operations for ongoing taxonomy and ontology governance across use cases • Work with product teams to build comprehensive frontend and backend taxonomies for cataloging assets in a natural, interpretable manner • Manage datasets and preparation of imports / exports / custom reporting for stakeholders • Reconcile disparate taxonomies and recommend semantic structures for unstructured data sets, whether discovered or predetermined • Create and maintain clear documentation for training and governance related to information management activities • Work with engineering, analytics, and insights teams to develop and improve machine learning models and labeling practices • Collaborate with cross-functional partners to triage data issues related to semantic data • Collaborate with subject matter experts across various domains to identify and define appropriate use cases for semantic data projects • Communicate complex technical information clearly and effectively to multi-functional audiences at varying levels of technical expertise or understanding • Identify opportunities for improvement and make recommendations to mature processes • Foster communication, cooperation, and alignment among distributed internal stakeholders • Evangelize the importance and value of semantic data work