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 UI, design QA, design system contributions, and cross-functional collaboration with product managers and engineers. The role also supports design quality, mentors peers, and improves UX practices across complex global art and luxury experiences.

Support the VP of Product in defining and delivering a new platform through roadmap ownership, requirements development, agile ceremonies, vendor decisions, and cross-functional coordination. The role covers identity, access, booking, payments, member services, CRM, and content architecture. It requires managing parallel workstreams, resolving risks, facilitating stakeholder decisions, and launching a premium member experience on a fixed timeline.

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.

Executes and helps define information security strategy, leading risk assessments, audits, policies, control testing, vendor risk reviews, business continuity, disaster recovery, incident response, and remediation tracking. The role manages compliance across CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 frameworks, maintains risk registers and dashboards, coordinates with global stakeholders and auditors, and mentors junior security professionals.

Coordinates post-sale client service by managing inquiries, complaints, tickets, calls, shipping quotes, VAT refunds, payment links, documentation, and collection arrangements. Collaborates with shipping, accounts receivable, and finance teams to ensure timely communication and accurate processing. Requires strong communication, organization, numeracy, discretion, problem-solving, and client-service skills. A second European language and SAP experience are preferred.

Lead product strategy, roadmap and execution for Sotheby’s client‑facing websites and mobile apps. Manage product managers, partner with design, engineering and data teams, drive research-driven decisions, run agile delivery, stakeholder communications, and measure product impact to grow demand across auctions, private sales and marketplace channels.

Coordinates the operational execution of auction, private sale, and post-sale activities. Manages client inquiries, compliance documentation, contracts, consignments, property movement, shipping, customs, payment follow-up, reserves, and unsold property returns. Partners with Legal, Compliance, Shipping, Specialists, cataloguers, and regional offices to meet sale deadlines and resolve issues. Supports private sales, temporary admissions, high-value lot reviews, and inventory initiatives while delivering strong client service.

Operate customs processing and record-keeping for goods admitted into the UK, ensuring compliance and accurate data. Prepare and submit customs declarations, monitor Temporary Admission deadlines, coordinate with freight forwarders and internal teams, and support VAT compliance, data analysis, and wider tax projects under supervision.

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.