Associate Director, Web Taxonomist

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 11
**About the Role**:
**The Team**:
The Web Taxonomist will be a key member of the Enterprise Marketing Strategy and Demand Generation team, supporting the execution of a consistent enterprise-wide digital experience. Reporting to the Director of Digital Acquisition who has responsibility across paid media and search engine optimization, this role plays a crucial part in organizing and optimizing web content across S&P Global’s corporate and divisional sites to ensure consistency, discoverability, and user-centric navigation. Working closely with content owners, SEO leads, UX designers, and technical teams, the Web Taxonomist will enable a more effective and scalable web experience for customers.
The Impact
This role is instrumental in bringing order and clarity to a complex and expansive content ecosystem. By creating and maintaining robust taxonomies and metadata structures, the Web Taxonomist ensures that content across corporate and divisions is easy to find, contextually relevant, and aligned with user intent. Their work directly supports customer journey optimization, content personalization, and search performance, thereby improving engagement and conversion.

**Responsibilities**:
Develop and maintain a centralized taxonomy and metadata schema for S&P Global’s enterprise web properties.
Conduct audits of existing site structures and content groupings to identify inconsistencies and opportunities for enhancement.
Partner with UX, SEO, content, and technical teams to ensure taxonomy supports business goals, user experience, and search optimization.
Support the development of tagging frameworks for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe Target, and personalization tools.
Collaborate with global divisional teams to align taxonomy standards while accommodating unique business needs.
Maintain documentation and training materials to promote adoption of taxonomy standards.
Provide ongoing governance and quality control to ensure metadata integrity and consistency.
**What We’re Looking For**:
**Basic Required Qualifications**:
**Education**: Bachelor’s degree in library science, Information Architecture, Digital Marketing, or a related field
5- 7+ years of experience in taxonomy design, metadata strategy, or content architecture in a large digital environment
Familiarity with enterprise content management systems (preferably AEM), tagging tools, and digital asset management systems
Understanding of SEO, UX design principles, and accessibility standards
Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills in a global organization.
**Additional Preferred Qualifications**:
Experience in B2B marketing or content-heavy organizations
Background in web content strategy or digital operations
Exposure to Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, and audience segmentation tools
What’s In It for You?
**Structure**:  Shape how content is categorized and discovered across a global digital ecosystem.
**Impact**:  Enhance personalization, engagement, and findability across four business divisions.
**Collaboration**:  Work with UX, SEO, content, and engineering teams to deliver better experiences.
**Growth**: Advance your career in a role that sits at the intersection of content, user experience, and enterprise strategy.
**Return to Work**:
Have you taken time out for caring responsibilities and are now looking to return to work? As part of our Return to Work initiative, Restart, we are encouraging enthusiastic and talented returners to apply, and will actively support your return to the workplace.
What’s In It For You?
**Our Purpose**:
Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology-the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.
Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.
**Our People**:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.
**Our Values**:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership
At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

**Benefits**:
We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s