Library Scientist in Toronto

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The Library Scientist builds the information architecture that Genesys Cloud AI runs on. The client has been explicit that taxonomy, searchability, and content structure are the critical prerequisites for AI knowledge surfacing in Genesys Cloud and for any later bot development. No amount of platform capability compensates for a knowledge base that is unstructured, inconsistently tagged, or unsearchable — the AI will retrieve from it either way, and the quality of what it returns is set here. This is a specialist, deliverable-heavy role, and the most technically consequential of the three for AI outcomes. The successful candidate is a trained information professional who can analyse a real, messy, high-volume content set and produce a taxonomy and metadata model that holds up under production load and under machine retrieval.

Responsibilities:

• Analyse the current knowledge base content and structure.
• Assess the existing content inventory — volume, format, ownership, age, duplication, structural consistency, and current tagging practice.
• Document the current state and the specific structural problems that are suppressing findability.
• Conduct a Baseline Content Analysis of 100–200 pilot articles.
• Perform a detailed article-level assessment across the pilot set: accuracy, currency, readability, reading level, completeness, duplication, structural consistency, and tagging quality.
• Produce scored findings and a remediation profile that can be extrapolated to the full corpus.
• Execute a Search Behaviour Analysis.
• Analyse actual search logs and agent and self-service search behaviour — query volume, top queries, zero-result and low-result queries, abandonment, refinement patterns, and the vocabulary gap between how users search and how content is written.
• Translate findings into concrete taxonomy and synonym requirements.
• Build the Taxonomy Blueprint, designed for AI retrieval.
• Design the taxonomy — hierarchy, facets, controlled vocabularies, synonym rings, and the rules governing where content sits and how it relates.
• Validate the structure with business line subject matter experts and test it against real queries.
• Structure content for machine consumption.
• Define article granularity, heading structure, answer-first writing patterns, and the disambiguation rules that prevent two near-identical articles from producing contradictory AI answers.
• Define the metadata and tagging model.
• Specify the metadata schema — required and optional fields, value sets, inheritance rules, audience and jurisdiction markers, lifecycle and review-date fields, and the tagging conventions authors will follow.
• Optimise searchability across both keyword and semantic retrieval.
• Establish baseline search performance measures and the target improvement, and define the measures by which AI answer quality will be judged once knowledge surfacing is enabled.
• Establish content governance at the information level.
• Define content standards, lifecycle and review cadence, ownership at the article and category level, and the quality criteria content must meet to be published.
• Observe proofs of concept with a specialist eye.
• Transfer knowledge to the client's content team.

Qualifications:

• Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS/MISt) or an equivalent information science qualification.
• 5+ years applying information science in an enterprise or digital context: taxonomy design, metadata modelling, controlled vocabularies, information architecture, or enterprise search.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing a taxonomy and metadata model for a production content environment, with examples of the deliverables produced.
• Practical experience with enterprise search behaviour analysis — working with search logs, diagnosing zero-result and relevance failure, and tuning search configuration.
• Working knowledge of taxonomy and metadata standards and the ability to apply them pragmatically (SKOS, Dublin Core, ISO 25964, schema.org).
• Demonstrable understanding of how information architecture affects AI and natural-language retrieval quality.
• Ability to conduct structured, scored content analysis at article level and report findings clearly to a non-specialist audience.
• Eligible to obtain and hold a Government of Canada security clearance.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on experience with the Genesys Cloud knowledge base and its authoring and optimisation tooling.
• Direct experience preparing a content corpus for AI, retrieval-augmented generation, or virtual agent consumption.
• Experience establishing AI answer-quality evaluation.
• Government, public sector, or academic library background, with familiarity with plain-language standards, WCAG accessibility requirements, and records management obligations.
• Bilingual English/French, including experience managing a bilingual taxonomy and parallel content sets.
• Experience with KCS (Knowledge-Centred Service) methodology.

Additional Information:

• Culture of Relentless Performance: join an unstoppable technology development team with a 99% project success rate and more than 30% year-over-year revenue growth.
• Competitive Pay and Benefits: enjoy a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, including health insurance, language courses, and a relocation program.
• Growth Mindset: reap the benefits of a range of professional development opportunities, including certification programs, mentorship and talent investment programs, internal mobility and internship opportunities.
• Global Impact: collaborate on impactful projects for top global clients and shape the future of industries.
• Welcoming Multicultural Environment: be a part of a dynamic, global team and thrive in an inclusive and supportive work environment with open communication and regular team-building company social events.
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