Optimization Specialist; AI

Position: Knowledge Optimization Specialist (AI)

Company Description

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading home, security and digital products company. We’re focused on exciting opportunities within the home, security and commercial building markets. Our driving purpose is to elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too.

At Fortune Brands, we’re building something big. We’re advancing exciting innovations in all of our products and processes, delivering trust, dependability, sustainability, and style. To make it all happen, we’ve transformed our workplace into an environment where smart, ambitious people have the support to reach their fullest potential. When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions.

We support an inclusive culture where everyone is encouraged to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength. Explore life at Fortune Brands here.

Job Description

We are seeking a detail-oriented and tech-curious AI Knowledge Optimization Specialist to help prepare and align our knowledge base for use with AI-powered tools. This role focuses on researching best practices for AI content optimization, structuring knowledge for machine understanding, and enhancing the performance of AI systems through improved content alignment.

The ideal candidate is passionate about emerging technologies, understands how AI interacts with structured information, and enjoys solving problems through research, testing, and iteration.

Key Responsibilities

• Research and apply best practices for optimizing knowledge base content for AI tools, including semantic search, chatbots, and virtual assistants.
• Analyze and reformat content to improve AI comprehension, retrieval accuracy, and contextual relevance.
• Collaborate with AI product teams and knowledge managers to define formatting, tagging, and metadata standards.
• Apply content structures that support natural language processing (NLP), entity recognition, and intent mapping.
• Test and evaluate how knowledge performs in AI environments and iterate based on findings.
• Document optimization strategies, formatting guidelines, and AI-readiness standards.
• Provide guidelines and support to knowledge management team to ensure AI consumption best practices are leveraged as new content is created.
• Stay informed on trends in AI, machine learning, and knowledge engineering to continuously improve content alignment.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or 5+ years of experience working with a knowledge base or in knowledge management, technical documentation, or content operations role.
• Demonstrated ability to structure and optimize content for digital tools or platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with a focus on structure, logic, and clarity.
• Experience working with structured content, metadata, or tagging systems.
• Ability to research and synthesize technical best practices into actionable strategies.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to follow complex formatting standards.
• Comfortable working independently and managing multiple priorities.
• Proficiency in tools such as Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, or similar.

Additional Information

• Base salary range: $60,000 – $99,000 USD (actual salaries may vary based on factors).
• Annual bonus or role-based sales incentive plan.
• Comprehensive benefits including robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off, adoption benefits, and more.
• ERGs to foster a sense of belonging for all associates.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Fortune Brands is an equal opportunity employer. Fortune Brands evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability/handicap status, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

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Seniority Level

Not Applicable

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Customer Service

Industries

Consumer Goods

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