Ontologist, Product Knowledge

Benefits

Parental leave

6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Non-birth-parent leave

6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Family-building benefits

• Fertility benefits: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
• Adoption assistance: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
• Surrogacy assistance: Not verified

Mental health support

Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Relocation assistance

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Childcare support

Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Learning budget

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Verification

Source-linked checked Jun 7, 2026

Salary

$83K-$145K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$102,662 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+5.4% - Faster than average

11% above the BLS role benchmark for product management aggregate.

Matched to SOC 11-1021 - Product Management aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Product From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

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Weekend work

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Company

Equity

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About this role

Ontologist, Product Knowledge Seattle, Washington, USA The vision of the Product Knowledge Ontology Team is to provide a standardized, semantically rich, easily discoverable, extensible, and universally applicable body of product knowledge that can be consistently utilized across customer shopping experiences, selling partner listing experiences and internal enrichment of product data. We aim to make product knowledge compelling, easy to use, and feature rich. Our work to build comprehensive product knowledge allows us to semantically understand a customer's intent - whether that is a shopping mission or a seller offering products. We strive to make these experiences more intuitive for all customers. As an Ontologist, you work on a global team of knowledge builders to deliver world-class, intuitive, and comprehensive taxonomy and ontology models to optimize product discovery for Amazon web and mobile experiences. You collaborate with business partners, data science and engineering teams to deliver knowledge-based solutions to enable product discoverability for customers. In this role, you will directly impact the customer experience as well as the company's product knowledge foundation. Key job responsibilities * Develop logical, semantically rich, and extensible data models for Amazon's expansive product catalog * Ensure our ontologies provide comprehensive sub-domain coverage that are available for machine ingestion and inference * Research worldwide understanding of Amazon products to develop scalable data models that solve customer problems and enhance product discoverability * Create new schema using Generative Artificial Intelligence (generative AI) models * Expand existing data retrieval techniques by utilizing our extensive product catalog and query languages

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