Taxonomy Lead

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience designing and implementing taxonomies or classification systems
• Experience with GenAI as applied to content management
• Familiarity with educational standards and frameworks such as CEFR and Blooms Taxonomy
• Strong analytical, organisational, and communication skills
• Experience managing assets, databases, or archive systems
• UK-based with unlimited right to work
• Ability to work without visa sponsorship or relocation support

Responsibilities:

• Design and build taxonomies and metadata standards from the ground up
• Define the approach to categorisation, tagging, and content classification
• Align classification systems with frameworks such as CEFR
• Identify how existing content can be allocated and repurposed across products
• Develop toolsets and train internal teams to apply the taxonomy in practice
• Collaborate with Content Creation, Product, and Legal on IP and rights best practice

Technologies:

• Support

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We are partnering with a globally respected cultural relations and education organisation that delivers English language learning and assessment products used by millions of learners worldwide. This is a genuine greenfield opportunity to build the taxonomy foundation from scratch and shape how content is structured, tagged, and reused across the business. The role is a 2-year fixed-term contract based in London on a hybrid working pattern, with 3 days per week onsite and 2-3 days per week hybrid flexibility. We offer a salary of up to £46,000, a civil service-style pension of up to around 20%, and 39 days of holiday per year.

last updated 31 week of 2026