Knowledge Systems Manager

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Knowledge Systems Manager governing customer operations knowledge and AI-assisted retrieval. Improving support resolution for VitalSource’s affordable digital learning platform.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the knowledge management roadmap and operating model for Customer Success Operations
  • Establish governance structure, domain ownership, review cadence, and content quality standards
  • Achieve and sustain knowledge coverage across support case types
  • Sequence content development by demand signal and case volume against the seasonal support cycle
  • Structure the knowledge corpus for AI-assisted search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
  • Define taxonomy, metadata, article standards, and controlled vocabulary for accurate retrieval
  • Coordinate the design and delivery of AI-assisted tooling for knowledge creation, gap detection, and contextual retrieval
  • Recommend tooling requirements and priorities and support rollout
  • Design and operate the quality framework for AI-surfaced knowledge
  • Define evaluation of answer accuracy and grounding in source content
  • Route failures into content remediation
  • Establish content lifecycle policy and classification standards for AI retrieval and external surfacing
  • Apply Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS) practices and build sustainable authoring capacity across Support and Enablement
  • Measure and report knowledge performance, including coverage, retrieval quality, first contact closure, case deflection, and content health
  • Direct content investment based on performance results
  • Oversee contracted knowledge operations resources, setting priorities, quality expectations, and delivery milestones

Requirements:

  • 5+ years in knowledge management, content strategy, or documentation practice
  • At least 3 years supporting a customer support or service operations function
  • Demonstrated ownership of a knowledge program end to end, including governance design, taxonomy development, and measurable adoption outcomes
  • Working command of Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS) or a comparable methodology, with practical experience embedding it into a live support organization
  • Experience working within CRM and ticketing platforms such as Salesforce, Jira, or Zendesk, using case and request data to identify knowledge demand
  • Demonstrated experience preparing or governing content for AI-assisted retrieval
  • Working fluency with tooling that supports AI-assisted retrieval, including connectors and knowledge sources
  • Knowledge of content best practices that make AI output reliable
  • Ability to establish governance and enforce standards across teams through influence
  • Ability to bring order to a large, unstructured content base
  • Professional certification in knowledge management, such as KCS v6 Practices or Principles, or Certified Knowledge Manager (preferred)
  • Experience leading an AI-assisted knowledge or content initiative end to end, from proof of concept through production rollout (preferred)
  • Experience building and maintaining dashboards and recurring reporting, such as Looker or comparable (preferred)
  • Experience directing distributed or contractor-based contributors in a delivery-oriented environment (preferred)
  • Bachelor's degree in Library and Information Science, Communications, Education, Business, or a related field (preferred)
  • Must be eligible to work in the United States; employer participates in E-Verify

Benefits:

  • Competitive base salary and a strong variable component
  • Medical, Vision, Dental, Life, Disability, Critical Illness, Accident, FSA, HSA, ID Protection, Pet and Legal Insurance
  • 401K match up to 5%
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Tuition reimbursement program
  • 4 weeks’ vacation
  • 12 sick days
  • 11 company holidays
  • 3 personal days
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Remote capabilities by team
  • Casual dress
  • Fitness challenges and rewards