Category Manager Art

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 preferably based in the Netherlands, Portugal, or France. Remote work within Europe may be considered, although this is less desirable.