Catalogue Expert (f/m/x) - remote (12 month fixed)

Almaz Capital; United States; Remote; USD 78,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

refurbed, Europe’s fastest-growing marketplace for refurbished products, is a remote-first company with a Vienna HQ and multi-market expansion. We seek a Taxonomy/Catalogue Expert to own the global category tree, attribute schemas, and data-quality governance across markets.

You will lead taxonomy design for new categories, run audits, and partner with Category Management, Compliance, Marketing, and Customer Service to ensure scalable, accurate catalog structures and optimized search

Qualifications

• Experience designing taxonomy/classification for e-commerce or marketplaces.
• Strong data-modeling and schema design experience.
• Proficiency in SQL and spreadsheet/BI tools for catalog auditing.
• Familiar with SEO and search/filter mechanics related to attributes.
• Experience with automation/scripts for taxonomy audits.

Responsibilities

• Own the global category tree structure across markets and audits.
• Design the attribute schema for each category and govern naming conventions.
• Lead deduplication and normalization across the catalog and track data-quality KPIs.
• Lead taxonomy design for new category and market expansion with benchmarking.
• Maintain SOPs for Category Tree, Filter, and Attribute Governance.
• Serve as taxonomy contact for Category Management, Compliance, Marketing, and Support.

Skills

Product taxonomy

Data modeling

SQL

Looker/BI tools

SEO & filters

Automation scripting

Cross-functional communications

Tools

Looker

Spreadsheet apps

Job description

Founded in 2017, refurbed is Europe's fastest-growing marketplace for refurbished products, active in 23 European countries and having surpassed €2Bn in GMV - all while being profitable. With beautiful headquarters in Vienna, we operate as a remote-first company and have been recognised as a Top DACH Employer by Kununu for four consecutive years.

Our mission is to make sustainable consumption the easy choice by enabling customers to buy products up to 40% cheaper while significantly reducing CO2 emissions.

If you thrive in an environment that values momentum, ownership, and impact, you'll feel at home here. We're a fast-paced, high-performance team that works hard and challenges itself everyday. To enable this high-performance every team member enjoys full autonomy over their location (we're remote-first).

For our Listing department, we are looking for a Taxonomy/Catalogue Expert who will own the structure, quality, and scalability of refurbed's product catalogue — the category tree, attributes, and data models that search, filters, listings, pricing (SRP), and compliance are all built on.

WHO YOU ARE

• Experienced with product taxonomy/classification in e-commerce or marketplace environments
• A strong data modeler and structured thinker, comfortable defining schemas rather than just filling them in
• Proficient in SQL and spreadsheet/BI tools (Looker or equivalent) for auditing Catalogue quality at scale
• Familiar with SEO and search/filter mechanics as they relate to attributes and category structure
• Experienced with (or has an aptitude for) automation/scripting to run taxonomy audits and bulk changes
• A strong cross-functional communicator who can drive alignment without direct authority over sellers or other teams;

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own the global category tree structure: product/instance relationships, subcategories, and category dependencies across markets — and run periodic taxonomy audits
• Design the attribute schema for each category: (allowed values, mandatory vs. optional, units) and own attribute governance and naming conventions
• Lead deduplication and normalization initiatives across: the catalog, and define/monitor data-quality KPIs for the taxonomy
• Lead taxonomy design for new category and market expansion: benchmarking against industry standards, and strong vertical players
• Detail-oriented but able to zoom out to system-level: ("does this scale") thinking
• Own and maintain: the Category Tree SOP, Filter SOP, and Attribute Governance documentation
• Act as the taxonomy point of contact for: Category Management, Selection Squad, Catalyst Squad, Compliance, Marketing, and Customer Service

WHY YOU WILL ENJOY WORKING WITH US:

Our Culture and Values:

• Decisions should be made based on facts and not by hierarchy levels? We sure think so!
• We embrace giving and receiving feedback, testing and welcoming new ideas, as well as sharing our knowledge across the company.
• You fail sometimes? Well, so do we! We're all just human, let's learn from our mistakes to improve in the future!
• No matter who you love, where you're from, who you pray to, whether you pee sitting down or standing up - we are a bunch of talented people who enjoy spending our time making a difference!

Personal & Professional Development:

• You'll have access to a dedicated learning budget within your department to support your growth, whether it's courses, conferences, or other learning opportunities that matter to you.
• We partner with Likeminded, offering you private sessions with experts for your personal growth and mental health.
• We frequently host internal workshops, allowing our teams to further develop their skills in different areas and enhancing collaboration across departments.

Flexibility:

• We care about a healthy work/life balance. We not only function and support a fully remote setting but also offer the possibility to work from our beautiful office in the vibrant heart of Vienna - we love dogs, so feel free to bring your furry little buddy too
• We trust you to do the best job, so we don't care so much when you do it - you are able to self-organize.
• You will also be invited to take part in our office weeks, happening three times a year, where you will have the chance to work side by side with your colleagues and enjoy the team-building events and on-site workshops

...and much more! See https://careers.refurbed.com/ for further insights!