Senior Category Lead, Contemporary Art

Location: Hybrid, based in Amsterdam, with at least two days per week at the Amsterdam HQ

Company

hirify.global is an online marketplace for buying and selling special objects, with more than 100,000 curated items auctioned each week.

What you will do

• Turn Art – Primary Market priorities into structured plans with owners, milestones, and follow-up.
• Improve workflows, handovers, and day-to-day operations while identifying and resolving bottlenecks.
• Set goals, coach team members, provide feedback, and support professional development.
• Monitor category performance, identify risks and opportunities, and coordinate focused actions.
• Translate category strategy into cross-functional initiatives from planning through execution and review.
• Identify growth opportunities across Direct from the Artist and Photography categories.

Requirements

• Strong experience creating structure, setting priorities, and ensuring execution in a category, sales, or commercial team.
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing team members through clear goals and regular feedback.
• Strong ownership, accountability, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional projects, dependencies, and timelines.
• Ability to use data, customer insight, and market insight to set priorities and evaluate results.
• Genuine interest in contemporary art and the primary art market.

Culture & Benefits

• Supportive and collaborative Art team working on ambitious growth challenges.
• Collaboration with Sales, Marketing, HR, and other partner teams.
• Learning and Development initiatives, development plans, and mentorship programmes.
• Inclusive, diverse, and queer-friendly workplace with colleagues representing more than 60 nationalities.
• Catavouchers, an additional annual day off, and additional leave for work anniversaries and important life events.

Hiring process

• Apply with an English CV and cover letter.