GLG is the world's insight network. Our clients rely on GLG's global team to connect with powerful insight across fields from our network of 900,000 experts (and the hundreds of new experts we recruit every day).
We serve thousands of the world's best businesses, from Fortune 500 corporations to leading technology companies to professional services firms and financial institutions. We connect our clients to the world's largest and most varied source of first-hand expertise, including executives, scientists, academics, former public-sector leaders, and the foremost subject matter specialists.
Job Summary
GLG’s Data Operations team powers the data that enables GLG to efficiently identify relevant experts with high precision and accuracy for its clients. The Data Operations team is responsible for a broad set of structured data on its experts.
The Data Librarian on the Data Operations team is primarily responsible for identifying, building and maintaining a series of taxonomies and associated metadata that enables our powerful search capabilities. This role will work directly with users to understand their needs in addition to analyzing data to understand usage patterns to develop and maintain GLG’s taxonomies.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Builds and maintains a series of taxonomies including crosswalks and associated metadata.
- Works closely with stakeholders in the business and engineering to understand their needs. Designs and implements changes to the taxonomies to satisfy stakeholder requirements.
- Analyzes relevant data as it pertains to usage of the taxonomies. Translates usage patterns into data solutions. Addresses issues that arise in its on-going usage.
- Develops processes around various data cleaning and creation exercises. Creates training and monitors progress on data cleaning tasks completed by offshore resources.
Qualifications and Skills
- At least two (2) years of experience defining, building, or maintaining taxonomies or ontologies.
- Bachelor's degree (Master Preferred) in Library Science (MLS) from an American Library Association (ALA) accredited program
and/or
Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics or Computational Linguistics
- Relevant work experience with data analysis, collection development, discovery services, electronic resources management, or technical services in an academic or public library.
- Ability to work effectively within teams and independently.
- Flexibility and willingness to expand or shift the range of responsibilities to meet evolving needs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Python or SQL
- Experience with taxonomy tools like Synaptica, Smartlogic Semaphore or Pool Party.
- Implementing natural language processing (NLP) and/or large language model (LLM) data projects
What We Offer:
Benefits: All U.S. GLGers also have access to benefits such as:
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your first day of employment
- Flexible paid time off. No pre-determined limits on vacation time, plus 10 company holidays
- 401(k) and Roth 401(k) plans with an employer match (subject to annual limits & vesting)
- Tuition reimbursement program for eligible courses including language skills courses
- Paid parental leave, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
- Free wellbeing support with the Calm app, Maven and EAP, and free long-term therapy & counselling assistance through Pathways
- Other work perks and benefits available based on final job location
Compensation: GLG is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation is based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. Certain roles may also be eligible for incentive compensation.
About GLG / Gerson Lehrman Group
GLG is the world’s insight network. Our clients rely on GLG’s global team to connect with powerful insight across fields from our network of approximately 1 million experts (and the hundreds of new experts we recruit every day).
We serve thousands of the world’s best businesses, from Fortune 500 corporations to leading technology companies to professional services firms and financial institutions. We connect our clients to the world’s largest and most varied source of first-hand expertise, including executives, scientists, academics, former public-sector leaders, and the foremost subject matter specialists.
GLG’s industry-leading compliance framework allows clients to learn in a structured, auditable, and transparent way, consistent with their own internal compliance obligations and the highest professional ethical standards. Our compliance standards are a major competitive differentiator and key component of the company’s culture.
To learn more, visit www.GLGinsights.com.
Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. (“GLG”) is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, race, religion, color, marital status, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.
EEO Policy Statement
Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. (“GLG”) is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, race, religion, color, marital status, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.