Jobs at Sotheby's

Lead product design across customer-facing applications and operational tools. Responsibilities include user research, workflow mapping, information architecture, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, polished interfaces, design QA, and design-system contribution. The role partners closely with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional teams while mentoring peers and improving UX practices.

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 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.