Senior Product Manager

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

Sotheby’s is an established auction house and luxury marketplace providing auctions, private sales, retail, financial services, and technology-enabled experiences across art and collectible categories.

What you will do

• Support the VP of Product in owning the roadmap, backlog, and sequence of major product releases.
• Run agile ceremonies and stakeholder meetings across product, engineering, design, and operating teams.
• Write product requirements and specifications for identity, access, booking, payments, member services, CRM, and content architecture.
• Evaluate build-versus-buy and hybrid approaches, managing vendors and integrations behind controlled interface layers.
• Partner with membership, experience, service delivery, Marketing, Finance, and Legal to support the end-to-end member journey.
• Lead decision-making, risk management, workshops, and delivery coordination against a fixed launch date.

Requirements

• 4–6 years of product management experience in e-commerce, membership, hospitality, or technology platforms.
• Experience with at least one ground-up or 0-to-1 product launch and cross-platform digital transformation.
• Ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams, including identity, booking, payments, content, and CRM.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, requirements documentation, analysis, and stakeholder management.
• Experience evaluating build-versus-buy decisions and managing third-party vendors and integrations.
• Ability to work discreetly on a confidential pre-announcement initiative and deliver under time-sensitive deadlines.

Nice to have

• Interest in art, luxury, or cultural institutions.
• Undergraduate degree in a technical or quantitative discipline.
• Experience with engagement scoring, retention, or CRM-driven product work.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a small, senior, cross-functional team.
• Operate in an agile environment with close collaboration across product, engineering, design, and business functions.
• Contribute to a premium member experience and a strategically important new platform initiative.