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Director, Content Architecture & Discovery
Gracenote
Gracenote is an entertainment data and technology provider powering the world’s top music services, automakers, cable and satellite operators, and consumer electronics companies. At its core, Gracenote helps people find, discover and connect with the entertainment they love. Daily, Gracenote processes 35 Billion rows of data and is quickly becoming a world-leader in return path “big data.” Over the past 2 years, the company has grown to more than 1800 employees in 20 countries, including over 400 of the world’s top engineers with a passion for music, video, sports, and entertainment technology. Founded in 1998, Gracenote is one of America’s most iconic and respected media companies.
We are seeking a unique individual who is passionate about describing and organizing the world’s music, movies and television programs. This position leads the design of information architecture, content understanding, and curation systems that power Gracenote’s media metadata, discovery and analytics solutions.
Information Architecture, Taxonomy & Ontology Design
Design taxonomies and ontologies for organizing music & video information, as informed by information science principles and content domain expertise.
Develop and define new descriptor values, ensuring high precision, relevance, consistency and propriety.
Design and develop solutions enabling search, browsing, navigation and social use cases.
Descriptive and Associative Data Guidelines & Development
Develop standards and guidelines for the application of descriptive and associative data assignments, classification and mapping.
Collaborate with data science team to evaluate and continually improve machine learning media descriptor classifier output.
Content Curation for Machine Learning Systems
Define guidelines for, and contribute to, the development of content sets and expert ground truth annotations used to train machine learning systems to understand and describe music and video styles, moods and other perceptual qualities.
Lead content curation projects to power demonstrations, prototypes and products.
Design of Metadata Generation Methods
Design information engineering methods for automatically generating descriptive metadata, associative connections and trending metrics from a diverse set of input signals.
Contribute to the design of systems which disambiguate and defragment external source data, to establish media object identity for global reference.
Discovery Systems Design, Development & Evaluation
Drive overall quality and contribute to the design of solutions for algorithmic generation of music & video recommendations, playlists and stations.
Design data and methods to enable solutions for media personalization and contextually-adaptive user experiences.
Music & Video Programming
Develop content intelligence-based recipes for generating dynamic music and video channels based on themes, moods, and activities.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in information science, computer science, musicology, film studies or related field; graduate degree / MBA a plus.
Minimum 5 years’ experience in music or video product management, content management or data development.
Skills & Knowledge
Domain knowledge of global music, film and television genres, both mainstream and long-tail.
Knowledge of structured metadata and information architecture principles.
Understanding of video and audio analysis, data mining and semantic technologies is a plus.
Top-notch analytical and problem-solving skills required. Strong editorial skills and attention to detail required.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to engage editorial, business and technical audiences.
Solid track record of successfully leading cross-functional teams by communicating vision and establishing consensus to design and deliver successful projects.
Personal Qualities
Passion and drive to organize and expand the world’s music and video information to create world-class user experiences.
Creative thinker who is driven to innovate in a very hands-on manner.
Strong team player with professional demeanor and ability to establish relationships, influence and inspire at all levels.
Gracenote
Gracenote is an entertainment data and technology provider powering the world’s top music services, automakers, cable and satellite operators, and consumer electronics companies. At its core, Gracenote helps people find, discover and connect with the entertainment they love. Daily, Gracenote processes 35 Billion rows of data and is quickly becoming a world-leader in return path “big data.” Over the past 2 years, the company has grown to more than 1800 employees in 20 countries, including over 400 of the world’s top engineers with a passion for music, video, sports, and entertainment technology. Founded in 1998, Gracenote is one of America’s most iconic and respected media companies.
We are seeking a unique individual who is passionate about describing and organizing the world’s music, movies and television programs. This position leads the design of information architecture, content understanding, and curation systems that power Gracenote’s media metadata, discovery and analytics solutions.
Information Architecture, Taxonomy & Ontology Design
Design taxonomies and ontologies for organizing music & video information, as informed by information science principles and content domain expertise.
Develop and define new descriptor values, ensuring high precision, relevance, consistency and propriety.
Design and develop solutions enabling search, browsing, navigation and social use cases.
Descriptive and Associative Data Guidelines & Development
Develop standards and guidelines for the application of descriptive and associative data assignments, classification and mapping.
Collaborate with data science team to evaluate and continually improve machine learning media descriptor classifier output.
Content Curation for Machine Learning Systems
Define guidelines for, and contribute to, the development of content sets and expert ground truth annotations used to train machine learning systems to understand and describe music and video styles, moods and other perceptual qualities.
Lead content curation projects to power demonstrations, prototypes and products.
Design of Metadata Generation Methods
Design information engineering methods for automatically generating descriptive metadata, associative connections and trending metrics from a diverse set of input signals.
Contribute to the design of systems which disambiguate and defragment external source data, to establish media object identity for global reference.
Discovery Systems Design, Development & Evaluation
Drive overall quality and contribute to the design of solutions for algorithmic generation of music & video recommendations, playlists and stations.
Design data and methods to enable solutions for media personalization and contextually-adaptive user experiences.
Music & Video Programming
Develop content intelligence-based recipes for generating dynamic music and video channels based on themes, moods, and activities.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in information science, computer science, musicology, film studies or related field; graduate degree / MBA a plus.
Minimum 5 years’ experience in music or video product management, content management or data development.
Skills & Knowledge
Domain knowledge of global music, film and television genres, both mainstream and long-tail.
Knowledge of structured metadata and information architecture principles.
Understanding of video and audio analysis, data mining and semantic technologies is a plus.
Top-notch analytical and problem-solving skills required. Strong editorial skills and attention to detail required.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to engage editorial, business and technical audiences.
Solid track record of successfully leading cross-functional teams by communicating vision and establishing consensus to design and deliver successful projects.
Personal Qualities
Passion and drive to organize and expand the world’s music and video information to create world-class user experiences.
Creative thinker who is driven to innovate in a very hands-on manner.
Strong team player with professional demeanor and ability to establish relationships, influence and inspire at all levels.