Jobs at Sotheby's

Leads product strategy, roadmap, and execution for Sotheby’s customer-facing websites, mobile app, and affiliated digital businesses. Oversees product managers and collaborates with engineering, design, data science, and business teams to define priorities, improve user experiences, measure outcomes, and deliver products. Responsibilities include market research, user interviews, resource planning, agile execution, executive communication, product requirements, stakeholder alignment, and risk management.

Leads cross-functional global real estate, security, and facilities initiatives from planning through operational readiness. Creates workplans, coordinates stakeholders, tracks milestones, budgets, risks, dependencies, and decisions, and resolves execution barriers. Prepares leadership updates, maintains governance and reporting tools, supports business reviews and planning sessions, and improves project delivery through repeatable processes, documentation, and lessons learned.

Leads a distributed engineering team across hiring, development, performance, delivery, and technical quality. Partners with product management on roadmaps, manages dependencies, drives planning and retrospectives, and oversees reliability, observability, testing, incidents, and operational follow-up. Contributes to engineering-wide standards and process improvements while developing engineers and ensuring the team delivers meaningful, maintainable outcomes.

Supports bidder registration and bid-related requests across Sotheby’s auctions. Maintains accurate client accounts, resolves routine data issues, performs account reconciliation, follows KYC and AML procedures, and coordinates with internal teams to ensure accounts are ready for sale deadlines. The role also contributes to process improvements, system testing, documentation, and consistent global operating procedures while providing timely guidance to clients and colleagues.

Leads Watches private sales by sourcing property, originating and executing high-value transactions, negotiating deals, and growing revenue. Builds trusted relationships with ultra-high-net-worth clients, collectors, dealers, advisors, and industry stakeholders. Develops commercial strategies, maintains a transaction pipeline, provides market insight, partners across Sotheby’s departments, and represents the Watches business at events and in media and thought leadership opportunities.

Conduct KYC/CDD and EDD reviews, screen alerts using tools like World-Check and Qual-ID, verify entity due diligence during onboarding, maintain compliance records, manage vendor/employee screening, support retail and marketplace operations, update reporting, and escalate high-risk clients to Financial Crime Compliance.

The Director, Lending Specialist at Sotheby's drives revenue growth by sourcing lending opportunities, managing client relationships, and ensuring smooth loan processing.

Lead Sotheby's engineering organization and own technical strategy across client-facing platforms and core transactional systems. Hire and develop senior engineering talent, set architecture and engineering standards, drive cross-functional delivery and CI/CD practices, ensure 24x7 operational reliability, and represent engineering to executive leadership and the board.

The Senior Software Engineer at Sotheby's will own systems, solve business problems pragmatically, communicate clearly across teams, and ensure code maintainability while working with distributed systems and microservices.

Provide evidence-based valuations and cataloguing for 15th–20th century decorative arts (furniture, rugs, sculpture, clocks) for sale, insurance, tax and estate purposes. Conduct on-site visits and desktop valuations, photograph and catalogue items, research provenance, liaise with specialists, travel across UK and Europe, and maintain compliance with legal and company standards.