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# Senior Product Manager - Search & Ranking at Catawiki

- **Company:** Catawiki
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/catawiki/jobs/8284718

## Job description

At Catawiki, every day brings the extraordinary! Whether it’s [Daniel Ricciardo’s Formula 1 Car](https://www.catawiki.com/en/c/583-sports-memorabilia), a [Woolly Mammoth’s Skeleton](https://www.catawiki.com/en/c/579-fossils), [Lady Gaga's Jumpsuit](https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/10035805) or [Usain Bolt’s running shoe](https://www.catawiki.com/en/c/583-sports-memorabilia), we encounter exceptional objects every day.

We’re a one-of-a-kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects. Each week, more than 100,000 unique items are auctioned, all carefully curated by our passionate in-house experts.

Having sold over 25 million unique objects, our mission is to become the world’s most popular destination for special objects. As a growing, diverse and sustainable scale-up, we proudly live by three core values. If these values resonate with you, we’d love to explore how you can join us.

- Taking ownership and driving impact
- Being open to change and feedback
- Being passionate about our mission and our customers.

## Your mission

Every Product Manager at Catawiki owns a meaningful part of the customer experience.

In Search and Ranking, your mission is to help buyers find the special objects they care about. You will shape how search, ranking and personalisation work across the buyer journey, making discovery more relevant and helping more buyers find objects they love.

This is a broad product area. It brings together buyer needs, expert curation, marketplace priorities, search experiences and machine learning. You will identify the most important opportunities, set a clear direction and lead a cross functional team from insight to measurable customer and business impact.

The solution is not prescribed. You may improve search relevance, ranking, recommendations or personalisation, or explore new AI enabled ways to help buyers discover objects. What matters is that you solve a meaningful customer problem, measure the impact and scale what works.

You will own the strategy, outcomes and execution for this area, working closely with Engineering, Design, Data Science, Marketing and Commercial teams.

## What you will do

- Set and communicate a clear product vision, strategy and roadmap for Search and Ranking.
- Own measurable outcomes across search relevance, discovery, engagement and buyer conversion.
- Use behavioural data, customer research and commercial insight to identify and prioritise the biggest opportunities.
- Turn ambiguous customer and business problems into clear hypotheses, prototypes and executable plans.
- Lead initiatives from early discovery through experimentation, launch and scaling.
- Define success metrics and build a rigorous experimentation agenda for search, ranking and personalisation.
- Work with machine learning engineers and data scientists to assess model quality, test new approaches and improve customer outcomes.
- Improve the relevance of search results and recommendations across the buyer journey.
- Integrate personalisation into the customer experience in ways that feel useful, coherent and trustworthy.
- Design, run and evaluate experiments, using positive, negative and inconclusive results to guide decisions.
- Use AI and rapid prototyping to test ideas early, reduce development risk and accelerate learning.
- Create clarity, momentum and accountability across teams, including when priorities or incentives differ.
- Communicate strategy, performance, tradeoffs and recommendations clearly to senior and C level stakeholders.

## Who you are

Three qualities matter most in this role.

Outcome ownership

You take responsibility for customer and business results, not only for delivering features. You stay with the problem, remove obstacles and change direction when the evidence calls for it.

Systems thinking

You understand how search, ranking, recommendations, auction dynamics, expert curation and marketplace health influence one another. You make thoughtful decisions across the full buyer journey.

Experimental rigour

You use data, research, prototypes and controlled experiments to make decisions. You learn from negative results and can distinguish meaningful progress from activity.

You will also bring:

- At least five years of product management experience, preferably in consumer ecommerce, marketplaces or another digital product at scale.
- Experience owning a broad product area or customer journey, rather than only individual features.
- Experience defining product strategy or roadmaps for search, ranking, recommendations, personalisation or other machine learning products.
- Confidence working with product metrics, experiments and commercial performance.
- Experience designing, running and analysing A/B tests, including tests involving machine learning products.
- The ability to turn uncertain opportunities into clear hypotheses, prototypes and plans.
- A practical understanding of machine learning concepts and how models become useful product experiences.
- Experience working closely with machine learning engineers and data scientists to develop and improve customer facing features.
- Comfort using AI tools to prototype quickly and explore customer experiences.
- The ability to balance immediate commercial opportunities with longer term product and platform investments.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to influence senior leaders without relying on formal authority.
- The pace, resilience and judgement to maintain a high standard of execution in an ambiguous environment.

Where you will be

This role is based in Amsterdam. We offer a relocation package for people currently living outside the Netherlands.

## Why You'll Love Working with Us

- Create a visible impact by working at scale in a global organisation serving millions of customers across 80+ categories. In our flat structure, every role has a broad scope and directly impacts both our customers and the business.
- Learn and grow through our Learning & Development initiatives, including clear development plans and mentorship programmes to support your career progression.
- A culture of connection defines us. We’re a passionate, diverse team of 800+ Catawikians representing 60+ nationalities. We foster an inclusive and queer-friendly environment where everyone is encouraged to bring their full self to work.
- Celebrate life’s moments with us. You’ll receive a €100 Catavoucher when you join, a €50 Catavoucher on your birthday, and an extra day off each year to “Pursue Your Passion”. We also offer additional leave for key work anniversaries and important life events. Benefits may vary by location.

Our Offices and Way of Working

Our vibrant offices in Amsterdam and Lisbon are designed to inspire collaboration. Most Catawikians operate in a hybrid setup, combining office-based and remote work, with a minimum of two days per week in the office, unless a role is explicitly stated as fully remote or fully office-based.

Interested?

Apply with an English CV and Cover Letter. By applying, you agree to [Catawiki’s Applicant Privacy Policy.](https://www.catawiki.com/conditions/applicant-privacy-policy.pdf) If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the review of your application. AI may help us assess how your experience matches the requirements of the role, but hiring decisions are always made by our recruitment team

## About Catawiki

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Catawiki is a curated online marketplace for buying and selling special, hard-to-find objects through weekly auctions, ranging from collectibles and art to classic cars and fashion.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Growth-stage; raised a €150M investment in 2021 led by Permira)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2008
- **Founders**: René Schoenmakers and Marco Jansen

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Online marketplace, e-commerce (specialty collectibles, art, antiques, and luxury goods)
- Target customers: B2C – both buyers and sellers globally; primarily consumers and collectors, with some B2B engagement via expert sellers
- Mission or purpose statement: “To become the most popular destination for special objects across the globe – starting with Europe” and “bring the traditionally offline world of special objects online.”

## Products & Services
- **Catawiki Platform**: A weekly online auction marketplace where over 75,000 objects are offered each week, curated by 240+ in‑house experts. Features secure payments, escrow for high-value items, and public reviews. Available in 17 languages across 60+ countries.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (but backed by a €150M investment in 2021)
- **Key Metric**: Over 3 million objects sold in 2023 (15+ million total to date); 10+ million unique monthly visitors; >1 million bidding users in 2023
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Permira (lead investor in 2021 round)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 800+ employees (Catawikians) from 50+ nationalities
  - Operations in 60+ markets across 17 languages
  - Two‑thirds of seller earnings come from buyers outside the seller’s home market
  - 98% positive buyer reviews; ~90% of spend from returning buyers

## Competitive Advantages
- **Expert Curation**: 240+ in‑house specialists (e.g., watch experts, art historians) who vet every submission, ensuring high quality and trust – over 1 million objects rejected annually to maintain standards.
- **Cross‑Border Reach**: Built‑in logistics, multilingual support, and escrow payments make it easy for sellers to access a global buyer base.
- **Brand & Trust**: Strong reputation among collectors; notable past sales include Banksy works, Sylvester Stallone’s Mustang, and rare comic books.
- **Category Breadth**: Over 600 weekly auctions spanning collectibles, art, design, jewellery, watches, classic cars, wine, and more.

## Strategic Focus
- Continuing to scale the platform across European markets while expanding into new categories and geographies.
- Enhancing the user experience for both buyers and sellers through technology (data science, engineering) and expert services.
- Leveraging the €150M investment to invest in product, engineering, and international growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes ownership, openness to change and feedback, and passion for the mission. Described as “culture add, not just culture fit.”
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Team of 50+ nationalities; inclusive and queer‑friendly environment; commitment to equitable pay with annual pay‑gap reviews.
- **Hybrid & Remote Flexibility**: Activity‑based working with 2 days/week in office (for office‑based roles), 100% remote options for experts and some other positions; commuter costs covered.
- **Perks & Benefits**: Minimum 32 days paid time off (inc. public holidays), extra day for following your passion, maternity/family/partner leave, Employee Assistance Programme, holistic wellbeing programme, learning & development budget, and relocation support.
- **Engineering & Data Science**: Open roles in backend, platform, security, and data engineering (offices in Amsterdam and Lisbon); focus on building a scalable marketplace.

## Sources
1. [catawiki.careers](https://catawiki.careers/who-we-are)
2. [catawiki.careers](https://catawiki.careers/)
3. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/catawiki)
4. [catawiki.com](https://www.catawiki.com/en/help/about)
5. [catawiki.careers](https://catawiki.careers/benefits)

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