Senior Taxonomy Content Specialist

Overview

About the Role & Team The Senior Taxonomy Content Specialist supports the ongoing development, governance, and operational integrity of IDC’s enterprise taxonomy framework. This role plays a critical part in ensuring data consistency, market alignment, structural scalability, and automation across IDCproducts, platforms, and research deliverables.Key responsibilities include maintaining and enhancing taxonomy structures, assisting with thetagging, categorization, and mapping of enterprise data in accordance with established governancestandards, and reviewing annually published taxonomy documents to ensure alignment with currentmarket dynamics. The senior content specialist will also verify consistent taxonomy usage acrossreports and research outputs and find ways to automate tasks.In support of data transformation initiatives, this role conducts market and internal research toidentify gaps in current data structures and recommend enhancements. As new data tools andtechnologies emerge, particularly those associated with IDC Quanta, the senior content specialist willsupport classification review and validation prior to product development.The role provides operational support through routine taxonomy audits to ensure consistency andaccuracy across platforms. The associate will serve as a resource to analysts by reviewing andrefining taxonomy definitions used in research publications, including Market Glance reports, and willalso help review and maintain quality standards across other key IDC deliverables such as IDCMarketScape documents.Working closely with a senior team manager, this individual will help implement structuralenhancements and scale operational coverage through AI automation to support evolving research,data, and product needs across IDC.What You’ll Do

• Taxonomy Maintenance: Assist in the tagging, categorization, and mapping of enterprise databased on established governance standards.
• Transformation Research: Conduct market and internal research to support the transformationinitiative by identifying gaps in current data structures.
• Operational Support: Perform routine audits of the taxonomy to ensure consistency and accuracyacross all platforms. Additionally, help review and maintain quality standards across key IDCdeliverables, including IDC MarketScape documents and other major research reports.
• Analyst Training: Assist in training analysts on new taxonomy-related processes, standards, andtools, and serve as a go-to resource for questions on taxonomy usage and governance.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the senior team manager to implement structural changes andscale-up operational coverage through AI automation.

What You Bring

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Management, Library Science, Data Science, or arelated field.
• Experience: 6-7 years of experience in data entry, content management, or research.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in Excel; familiarity with taxonomy management software or CMS toolsis a plus.
• Content editor: Excellent written communication skills with a sharp eye for detail and structuralaccuracy. Can demonstrate experience reviewing and editing structured content for clarity,consistency and adherence to defined standards.
• Soft Skills: Strong analytical mindset, high attention to detail, and the ability to work in afast-paced, global environment.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) Prompting: Skilled in writing and refining AI prompts to streamlinetaxonomy workflows, such as tagging, categorization, mapping, gap analysis, and quality review ofstructured content.
• Taxonomy Expertise: Working knowledge of taxonomy and classification principles, includinghierarchy design, controlled vocabularies, metadata standards, and governance practices.
• Presentation Skills: Ability to present completed work, findings, and recommendations clearly toteam members, analysts, and management.
• Innovation: Proactively contributes new ideas to the team to improve taxonomy processes, tools,and workflows.
• Training and Enablement: Ability to assist in training analysts on new taxonomy processes,standards, and tools.
• Willing to work 6:30pm - 3:00am IST

Why This Role Stands Out At IDC, your work helps shape how the world understands technology and where it goes next. You collaborate with curious, high-caliber colleagues who value rigor, integrity, and shared success. As the premier global provider of trusted technology intelligence, IDC equips business and technology leaders with the evidence they need to make confident decisions. Our insights inform strategy, investment, and innovation across industries and regions.

Recognized by IIAR as Analyst Firm of the Year for five consecutive years, IDC sets the standard for credibility and impact. With more than 1,000 a