30.4447, Jobs: English; Computational Linguistics: Manager, Associated Press

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Subject: 30.4447, Jobs: English; Computational Linguistics: Manager, Associated Press

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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 12:56:47
From: Keisa Caesar [klcaesar at ap.org]
Subject: English; Computational Linguistics: Manager, Associated Press, New York, USA

 
University or Organization: Associated Press 
Department: Human Resources
Job Location: New York, USA 
Web Address: https://www.ap.org/en-us/
Job Title: Metadata Technology Manager
Job Rank: Manager

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast,
unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and
formats. Founded in 1846,

AP today is the largest and most trusted source of independent news and
information. On any given day more than half the world's population sees news
from AP.

The Associated Press seeks a Metadata Technology Manager based in New York,
NY.

Reporting to the Deputy Director of Metadata Technology, the individual in
this role will:
- Modernize our content enrichment platforms and capabilities to meet new
opportunities and market needs while also serving the changing needs of our
existing customers. 
- Own content enrichment and ontology management.

Responsibilities include:
- Review, transform, and maintain content enrichment and ontology management
systems and workflows to meet evolving internal and external needs. 
- Work closely with stakeholders to deliver enhanced and goal-oriented content
enrichment, management and discovery capabilities through AP’s platforms.
- Define, document, and implement policies regarding scope and goals of the AP
ontology and content enrichment services.
- Maintain and develop ontologies and classifiers in keeping with policy and
business needs. 
- Manage projects with internal staff and contractors to implement ontology
and classification solutions.
- Evangelize metadata across the organization, bring customer facing and back
office teams together on metadata needs for the enterprise.
- Work closely with product, editorial, and technical teams to deliver
ontologies and content enrichment capabilities to drive automation and
business value.
- Partner with the Deputy Director of Data Sciences and the product owners to
deliver the AP Metadata Services product.

Qualifications:
- Experience designing and delivering ontologies for content management,
content enrichment, and administrative functions.
- Experience planning and executing on large-scale rules-based or statistical
classification projects.
- Experience working with a variety of statistical classifiers and NLP
technologies and evaluating vendor offerings in the space.
- Ability to engage with a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders
to deliver on the content enrichment roadmap.
- Deep comprehension of relevant technical trends, machine learning/artificial
intelligence and their evolving role in content management and discovery.
- Critical thinking skills to drive a full evaluation and transformation of
content enrichment processes and workflows.
- Authorization to work in the U.S. will be mandatory.
- Advanced-level professional competency in written and spoken English.
- Authorization to work in the U.S. will be mandatory.  Advanced-level
professional competency in written and spoken English is required.

Application deadline is 11:59pm EST on December 13, 2019

AP seeks to build an inclusive organization grounded in respect for
differences. We support all aspects of diversity and provide equal employment
opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color,
religion, sex, marital status, national origin, age, sexual orientation,
gender identity, disability or status as a veteran in accordance with
applicable nondiscrimination laws.



Application Deadline: 13-Dec-2019 
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://careers.ap.org/job/New-York-Metadata-Technology-Manager-NY-10281/610191800/ 
Contact Information:
	HR Manager Keisa Caesar 
	Email: klcaesar at ap.org 


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