Knowledge Management Specialist

TRG$80K — $95K *
Plano, TX 75025In-Person
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in KM, Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, UX Design, or equivalent experience; or 5 years in Knowledge Management
  • 3-5 years in KM tools, content strategy, intranet management, or related roles
  • Hands-on SharePoint Online configuration and maintenance experience
  • Knowledge of content lifecycle management and governance practices
  • Strong grasp of metadata, taxonomy, and information architecture
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain KM practices that support business needs and improve user experience
  • Assess content for quality and relevance through audits and gap analyses
  • Organize knowledge assets using taxonomy, metadata, and ownership practices
  • Collaborate with SMEs to create user-friendly training materials and SOPs
  • Provide support and training for stakeholders and content contributors
  • Configure SharePoint sites, manage content structures and permissions
  • Enhance findability using analytics and user feedback

Benefits

  • Access to ongoing training and professional development
  • Opportunities for collaboration with subject matter experts
  • Supportive corporate culture fostering user-centered design
  • Engagement with cutting-edge tools like Microsoft 365
  • Potential for involvement in enhancing AI and digital workplace practices
Full Job Description
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Knowledge Management, Governance and Content Quality
    • Develop and maintain knowledge management practices that support business needs, improve the employee user experience, and align with enterprise content standards.
    • Assess existing content through inventories, audits, and gap analysis to identify opportunities to improve quality, relevance, and usability.
    • Apply taxonomy, metadata, ownership, review cadence, version control, naming standards, and lifecycle practices to keep knowledge assets organized, current, and easy to find.
    • Work with SMEs to turn complex or fragmented information into clear QRGs, SOPs, training materials, and support content employees can use with confidence.
  • Stakeholder Support, Training and Adoption
    • Act as a trusted partner for stakeholders, content owners, and SharePoint site owners.
    • Lead training, office hours, onboarding, guidance, and customer support for users, SMEs, and content contributors.
    • Help teams keep site content accurate and current while coordinating escalation for platform defects, enhancement requests, or code changes as needed.
  • SharePoint Administration, Findability and Lifecycle Management
    • Configure and maintain SharePoint Online sites, pages, libraries, lists, permissions, navigation, metadata, web parts, and content structures.
    • Organize, consolidate, migrate, archive, retire, or remediate outdated SharePoint sites and knowledge repositories.
    • Improve findability by using metadata, navigation, Microsoft Search, content health metrics, usage data, search analytics, zero-result searches, broken link reports, and stakeholder feedback.
    • Strengthen AI-ready knowledge practices by improving content structure, metadata quality, ownership, and source reliability for enterprise search and Microsoft 365 experiences.
  • User Experience and Content Placement
    • Use user-centered design principles to improve site navigation, information architecture, content discovery, and content placement.


REQUIREMENTS
  • Bachelors Degree in Knowledge Management, Business Administration, Information Systems/Management, Computer Science, UX Design, Organizational Development, Data/Business Analytics or equivalent experience OR 5 years with Knowledge Management experience.
  • 3-5 years of experience in knowledge management (any tool), content strategy, intranet management, digital workplace operations, or a related specialist/practitioner role.
  • Hands-on experience configuring and maintaining SharePoint Online sites, pages, libraries, lists, metadata, views, permissions, navigation, web parts, and content lifecycle settings.
  • Experience with content lifecycle management, governance, audits, review cycles, ownership models, version control, archival, and retirement practices.
  • Strong understanding of metadata, taxonomy, search fundamentals, information architecture, and content findability.
  • Strong communication and Proactiveness, facilitation, stakeholder management, organization, prioritization, and customer support skills. They will be training other people as well (once a month).

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS
  • Experience with Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Search, or search analytics.
  • Familiarity with accessibility standards, UX practices, content design methods, and user-centered design principles.
  • Experience working in an enterprise intranet, digital workplace, or large corporate environment with distributed content ownership.

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