Category Manager Art

At Catawiki, every day brings the extraordinary! Whether it’s Daniel Ricciardo’s Formula 1 Car, a Woolly Mammoth’s Skeleton, Lady Gaga's Jumpsuit or Usain Bolt’s running shoe, we encounter exceptional objects every day.

We're a one-of-a-kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects! Each week we offer over 75,000 unique items in auction, carefully curated by our passionate in-house experts.

Having sold over 20 million unique objects to date, we’re on a mission to become the world’s most popular destination for special objects. As a growing, diverse and sustainable scale-up, we proudly live by our core values:

• Taking ownership and driving impact
• Being open to change and feedback
• Being passionate about our mission and our customers.

If these values resonate with you, we’d love to explore how you can join us on this exciting journey!

About the role and team

The Art world is shifting - fast. At Catawiki, we’re leading that change, building one of the world’s most dynamic online destinations for Art collectors, galleries, and connoisseurs. Our Secondary Market division sits at the heart of this ambition.

We’re looking for a bold, entrepreneurial leader to take this category to the next level. In this role, you’ll lead a diverse team of international Art Experts, each with deep curatorial expertise across Modern and Contemporary Art. Your mission? To design and scale the most trusted, engaging, and commercially powerful online offering for artworks with a past—from blue-chip artists to emerging cult names.

You’ll work closely with Sales, Marketing, and Tech to deliver high-performing auctions, fuel seller growth, and ensure Catawiki’s Secondary Art offering remains relevant, desirable, and one step ahead of the market. You’ll also be joining Catawiki’s broader leadership community, contributing to cross-category initiatives and driving innovation in how we connect exceptional objects with passionate buyers worldwide.

This is not a legacy role. It’s a growth challenge—for someone ready to define what the future of the online art market should look like.

What You’ll Do

• Own the Art Secondary Market strategy: Lead and evolve the category strategy for Secondary Market Art, ensuring it aligns with Catawiki’s vision, business goals, and user expectations.
• Curate exceptional auctions: Drive the creation of highly relevant, commercially strong and thematically engaging auctions by collaborating closely with your team of in-house Art Experts.
• Maximise seller relationships and growth: Partner with Sales to acquire, develop and retain high-potential sellers, from galleries to individual collectors, ensuring continuous supply of quality lots.
• Drive data-informed decision making: Monitor key business metrics (GMV, conversion, lot quality, buyer engagement) and use insights to guide improvements in selection, pricing, and curation practices.
• Lead and empower a high-performing team: Coach and develop your team of Experts by setting clear goals, giving actionable feedback, and fostering ownership and accountability across the category.
• Collaborate cross-functionally for impact: Work with Marketing, Product, and Operations teams to improve user experience, launch innovative initiatives, and expand the reach of your category globally.

Who You Are

• Visionary with a Commercial Edge: You combine business acumen and market instinct. You can translate long-term ambition into actionable growth strategy, and you thrive on turning vision into results.
• Deep Art Market Expertise: You bring a robust understanding of the international Art ecosystem—galleries, collectors, institutions—with a sharp eye for quality, pricing and positioning in the Secondary Market.
• P&L-Minded Operator: You are fluent in business levers like GMV, seller contribution, conversion and user acquisition. You understand how to pull the right growth and efficiency levers to maximise value.
• Leader of Experts: You are a people leader who empowers experts. You foster accountability, clarity, and high performance while championing a culture of ownership and excellence.
• Cross-Functional Navigator: You move fluidly across commercial, product and marketing functions. You’ve worked in matrixed organisations and know how to align diverse stakeholders behind a shared mission.
• Global Communicator: You are at ease in international contexts. You communicate clearly in English, and can engage senior stakeholders, sellers, partners and colleagues across cultures and disciplines.
• Data-Driven, Quality-Obsessed: You love data, but never lose sight of the human experience. You pair analytical rigour with uncompromising standards for authenticity, curatorial value and customer delight.

Where You’ll Be

The role is based remotely in Europe (work-from-home), or in our offices in the Netherlands, Portugal and France.

Why You'll Love Working with Us

• Create a Visible Impact by working at scale in a global organisation that serves millions of customers across 80+ categories. In our flat structure, every role has a broad scope that directly impacts both our customers and the business.
• Learn and Grow with Us through our Learning & Development initiatives, which include clear development plans and mentorship programmes designed to support your career progression.
• A Culture of Connection defines us. We’re a passionate, diverse and collaborative team of 800+ Catawikains and 60+ nationalities, all coming together to build a one-of-a-kind marketplace. We foster an inclusive and queer-friendly work environment, committed to making every Catawikian feel welcomed and empowered. Whatever your story, we encourage you to bring your unique perspective to our team.
• Celebrate Life’s Moments with us at Catawiki. When you join us, you’ll receive a €100 Catavoucher, and on each birthday, you'll get a €50 Catavoucher to celebrate. Enjoy an extra day off each year to "Pursue Your Passion". We also recognise significant work anniversaries (3, 5, 8, 10 years) with additional time off, plus extra leave for life’s big moments like marriage, engagements, or moving house.

Please note that benefits can vary by location. For specific information regarding what’s available in your country, please consult your recruiter.

Our Offices and Way of Working

Our vibrant offices in Amsterdam, Paris and Lisbon are designed to inspire and connect. Most Catawikians are within commuting distance of one of our offices and enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid work model. This means that you will be in the office 2 out of 5 days (40% of your working time) to collaborate and connect with your colleagues. That said, some roles may be an exception: if the job description states that the position is fully remote or 100% office-based, that arrangement will apply instead.

If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.