OPENSESAME Catalog Specialist Salary in the United States

About OpenSesame

OpenSesame helps develop the world’s most productive and admired workforces. With the most comprehensive catalog of elearning courses from the world’s top publishers, we are here to help you every step of the way, from finding courses, mapping them to your core competencies, syncing them with your LMS to increasing utilization and improving your L&D programs. Not only will you have the flexibility of multiple purchasing options from OpenSesame, you’ll find it simple to use and administer your e-learning courses. To learn more, visit www.opensesame.com/about.

While it appears to most people that we just sell training courses (over 20,000 of them), what we really offer is the opportunity for companies to upgrade the skills of each of their employees. In fact, we have a number of strategic partnerships with Fortune 500 companies who rely on our training programs to train their customers on how to better use their complex products.

About the Team

We are a hard working group of problem solvers who are committed to helping our customers develop the most productive and admired workforces. We become heroes to them when we do this well. Having a high quality catalog expertly curated is critical to this effort.

About the Job

This role is a gateway to the world of online training and the perfect job for someone who wants a career in library science. On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible for maintaining our catalog. You will use existing skills and learn new ones to take a metrics-driven approach to optimizing and reporting on our product offering. We are looking for a juggler who loves having multiple balls in play and rarely if ever drops them.

Once you have all of this figured out we’ll then ask you to make the entire department even better. If becoming a superstar is on your list of near-term goals, this may be the perfect position for you.

Position Duties 

• Prepares, loads, and runs quality assurance on routine course imports and updates.
• Conducts audits of catalog data, including assembling and cleaning data, and updating data in the catalog.
• Works with Curation Specialists keep up-to-date with their latest content offerings, including monitoring the course pipeline.
• Liaison to Product/Development for ongoing development of the product.
• Maintain the course taxonomy of our site, including how courses are organized and merchandised by assigning subject, competencies and other target metadata to elearning courses. 
• Develop and maintain documentation and training materials for catalog maintenance processes, develops internal training materials, and provides ongoing technical assistance to fellow employees interacting with catalog resources.
• Make recommendations for catalog improvement based on research and analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in library science, or a related discipline.
• Strong knowledge of and experience with spreadsheet software (Google Sheets, MS Excel) and relational databases.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Basic knowledge of spreadsheet formulas or SQL querying, or a capacity and desire to quickly learn these skills.
• 2+ years of work experience in data analytics, operational analysis, cataloging, statistics, or a related field that included performing analysis, statistical evaluation, database design, maintenance, administration, and statistical reporting.
• 1+ year previous experience in a library or archive, academic institution, elearning organization, human resources department, digital assets management, or a related field.

Diversity Statement

We help companies worldwide train their amazingly diverse workforces. We understand how different perspectives are vital to the success of a company. At OpenSesame, we are committed to inclusion across race, gender, religion, age, and identity. We work hard, challenge ourselves to learn quickly, embrace daily improvements, and support each other and our customers every step of the way. Driven by our people. Strengthened by our differences. 

Applicants for this position must be able to work in Portland, OR or Des Moines, Iowa.