Lead the strategy and implementation of navigation, metadata, taxonomy, and ontology frameworks across digital properties. Improve findability, support personalization and AI/ML initiatives, and ensure product and content data is structured, governed, and optimized for large-scale digital and e-commerce experiences. Partner with Product, Content, UX, Engineering, Analytics, and senior stakeholders to translate complex business and data requirements into actionable IA solutions.
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Job Description
Title: Senior Information Architect
Department: Digital Retail
Reports to: Manager, Information Architecture
Type: Contract
Location: Fully Remote (U.S. Only)
Sponsorship: Not available
Overview
The Senior Information Architect will lead the strategy and implementation of navigation, metadata, taxonomy, and ontology frameworks across digital properties. This role improves findability, supports personalization and AI/ML initiatives, and ensures product and content data is structured, governed, and optimized for large‑scale digital and e‑commerce experiences. The position partners closely with Product, Content, UX, Engineering, Analytics, and senior stakeholders to translate complex business and data requirements into actionable IA solutions.
Responsibilities
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- Lead strategy and design for global and sub‑site navigation
- Develop and govern taxonomies, ontologies, metadata schemas, and data models
- Establish and maintain data and metadata governance programs
- Support systems of record, lineage mapping, and product data normalization
- Oversee tagging approaches, including auto‑tagging and ML‑assisted classification
- Collaborate across teams to align IA with digital, e‑commerce, and personalization goals
- Conduct user research and usability testing focused on navigation and findability
- Review analytics to identify and resolve content and data discoverability issues
- Provide IA and data architecture expertise across cross‑functional teams
- Support AI/ML initiatives such as semantic search, recommendations, and conversational systems
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Tools & Experience:
- Must have 'some' experience as an Information Architect in the retail apparel, outdoor apparel, or sporting goods industries.
- 4+ years of experience shaping product or content data ecosystems for digital or e‑commerce platforms.
- Strong communication skills with ability to influence technical and non‑technical partners.
- Experience aligning IA and metadata strategies with AI/ML and emerging technologies..
- Comfortable working in Agile, user‑centric environments.
- MUST HAVE Semaphore Smartlogic experience.
- Must be proficient in the following technologies:
SQL | SPARQL | Visual Basic | SmartLogic Semaphore | NavCat | TaxCat | Specs Configuration | Squirrel | Drools | ContentStack
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