Content Analyst & Knowledge Engineer

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Job Description

We are a fast-paced global service organization providing human evaluation and diagnostic services including content management and programming, testing and training data, query analysis and insights, and product quality optimization on all screens (PC/Phone/Tablet/TV).

A Lot About You

We're looking for a creative, smart, and versatile generalist with editorial skills to participate on a variety of projects including handling data feeds, building taxonomies, classifying online content, analyzing search behavior, extracting data, and assisting with a variety of other overarching tasks. You should have a fascination with the Internet and online culture, you’ll be spending all day with it!

Your Day

  • Writing code to extract data from various content sources.
  • Mapping data to schemas.
  • Leading team members in meeting project objectives.
  • Making product feature improvements based on your analysis of the workflow, tools, competitive landscape, and user climate.
  • Effectively communicating ongoing product changes and escalating issues with the appropriate members of the product team.
  • Classifying diverse unstructured data and communicating analyses of users' wants and needs.
  • Developing new concepts, methods and techniques.
  • Curating and featuring content using data and journalistic standards. Figuring out how to scale content choices for large audiences.
  • Partnering with engineering and science in the development of machine learning algorithms for ranking, classification, natural language processing, deep learning, and other areas requiring labeled data for training models.

You Must Have

  • Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Journalism, Computer Science, Library Information Science, Information Management or equivalent practical experience.
  • One+ years of related working experience. Fresh graduates with relevant internship/project experience are welcome.
  • Fluency in English and Chinese(Mandarin) is required.
  • Attention to detail, flexibility, organizational skills, an abundance of common sense, and strong communication, writing, and decision-making skills.
  • Comfortable with smartphones and apps. Understanding of the challenges facing desktop vs mobile search. Ability to work with engineering including technical aptitude.
  • Solid understanding of taxonomy/category structures and content classification.
  • Ability to collect, analyze, and interpret search data; ability to build lists of keywords to trigger specialized content, including common misspellings and synonyms.
  • Applicants for this position must be willing to locate to Taiwan.

The Good Stuff

  • Work at Yahoo - At Yahoo, We want every employee to have as much flexibility as their role allows. Working from home or working from the office? Your choice!
  • Summer Friday - We know the importance of work/life balance and realize that some working habits may not have kept up with the times.
  • Learning & Development - We have amazing programs you can enter to further grow your career, learn & develop new skills. We also provide you with a tuition reimbursement program for study.
  • Health and Wellbeing - We offer employee assistance program (EAP), health club reimbursement, employee vacation program, office massage for you to relieve from stress and release of pressure.
  • Work from Abroad Policy - the world as we know it has changed so if you need to travel back to your home country and work remotely, we have you covered.
  • Phone & Tech - We will provide all the Apple goods to do your job well.

Company Info.

Yahoo

Yahoo is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon Communications. It provides a web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services, including My Yahoo!, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports and its advertising platform, Yahoo! Native.

  • Industry
    Information Technology
  • No. of Employees
    8,600
  • Location
    Sunnyvale, California, USA
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