Taxonomist, Supply

Brief info about Vinted

Our mission is to make second-hand the first choice, and we're looking for people who want to help us get there. Every day, we work together to help our members buy and sell pre-loved clothing and lifestyle items, giving each piece a second life – or even a third.

The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission:

Vinted Marketplace is Europe’s leading platform for second-hand fashion and a go-to destination for all kinds of pre-loved items, with a growing range of categories. Our platform connects millions of members across 20+ markets, helping great items find a new life.

Vinted Go enhances the shipping experience with a vast network of over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points, partnering with more than 60 carriers across Europe, with added services like item verification for peace of mind on high-value pieces.

Vinted Pay is the newest part of the Vinted Group, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe. Seamlessly integrated into the Vinted app, it helps keep every transaction safe, efficient, and easy for our members.

Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted began as a way for friends to find new homes for clothes they no longer needed. In 2019, we became Lithuania's first unicorn! Today, our headquarters remain in Vilnius, and we've grown with offices across Europe, supported by a team of over 2,000 people.

Information about the position

Vinted’s Supply domain drives the seller experience at Vinted, by developing easy listing experiences that produce high quality, searchable listings that sell fast. You’ll be working within the team, a cross-functional group of taxonomists, decision scientists, and product managers. Our goal is to enhance Vinted’s listing, browsing, search, and item retrieval. As a taxonomist, you will build the structural logic for navigation, search relevance, listing quality, and product expansion, ensuring a coherent, seamless, and relevant end-to-end category experience.These data models and structures help Vinted’s buyers find unique items and grow Vinted's global business. You’d be joining our team at a critical time: we are adapting our data models and systems to better support Vinted’s transformation into a multi-vertical marketplace.

As part of taxonomy projects, you will research, design, implement, and evaluate ontology and taxonomy changes. Your goal will be to promote and balance the needs of sellers and buyers in our C2C marketplace, as well as machine learning models. You will work closely with internal teams to explore alternative ways of modelling our data.

This role is perfect for someone who has experience designing and implementing taxonomies and ontologies, especially in an eCommerce environment.

In this position, you’ll

• Design, revise, and maintain buyer and seller-facing product taxonomies and navigation, across a wide range of product verticals
• Design, implement, and maintain ontologies and data structures that support our member-facing content
• Balance Vinted’s Member experience with taxonomy and metadata heuristics while maintaining Vinted’s tone and voice.
• Research and build product attributes to help buyers narrow their search, and sellers describe their items.
• Work with user research and data analysts to build and test taxonomies and metadata structures for the most impactful results.
• Document internal standards, workflows, governance processes, and data models.
• Collaborate and connect with a wide range of internal teams including: engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, legal, policy, communications, localisation, and customer support.

About you

• Experience in developing taxonomies and/or ontologies to support a variety of systems both for front-end and back-end use.
• Ability to clearly articulate the benefits of taxonomy and structured data to audiences of different knowledge levels and backgrounds.
• Experience with evaluating and implementing taxonomies to support search systems, content management systems, metadata schemes, digital asset management systems, or product classification.
• Experience building taxonomies for machine learning classification systems.
• Strong logical thinker who loves finding practical solutions for users.
• Fluency in taxonomy and ontology design principles, as well as information architecture.
• Basic SQL and Excel/Google Sheets skills.
• Experience with AI driven solutions
• Strong communication skills, including excellent written and spoken English.
• Bonus : Fluency in other Vinted market languages such as French, German, Spanish, Dutch or Italian. Bonus: Experience working in eCommerce environments
• Bonus : Proficiency in ontology or knowledge graph development (e.g. RDF, OWL, and related tools)

Work perks

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 30 days of paid annual leave
• Newest MacBook models
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Lunch benefit per your workday
• Frequent team-building events
• A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
• Access to a discounted gym membership plan
• Pension Plan with Vinted matching 150% of your chosen contribution
• Supplemental Private Health Insurance
• Life and Disability insurance
• A subsidised Deutschlandticket for your commute to the office by public transport
• A dog-friendly office

Working at Vinted

Workation policy

Better balance holidays with workdays by working remotely! Up to 90 days per year in the EU, of these, 21 days can be spent globally. For non-EU citizens, it's 21 days worldwide. This can be combined with time off for vacation or personal time.

Individual learning budget

Each year, you’ll be given a learning budget (starting at €3,000), and a total of up to 10 working days over a 2-year period to support your personal and professional development.

Hybrid work

Our hybrid model, with 2 recommended office days a week, gives you and your team the flexibility to decide if and when you want to work from home, and when to catch up in person.

Equal opportunity

We welcome applications from everybody, regardless of your background, identity, or life experiences. Job openings come with guides, not checklists. If you’re excited about a role, but don’t identify with every point in the ‘About you’ section, apply anyway – you might still be the perfect match!

The annual gross salary range for this position is:

€75.200 — €101.800 EUR