Product Manager

About Catawiki

Catawiki was founded in 2008. It was originally designed as a website where collectors could manage and keep track of their collections online. Visitors can still add new items to the existing catalogue of collectibles. Unsurprisingly, the name Catawiki is a combination of the words ‘catalogue’ and ‘wiki’. In 2011, Catawiki began hosting weekly auctions in various categories, including art, antiques, classic cars, watches, jewellery, fashion, books, and stamps.

Position

Special objects are the last frontier of E-Commerce. We need you to conquer this last frontier. We’re looking for multiple Product Managers from Junior to Group-level. You will be working in one of our product groups: Engagement, Supply or Fulfillment. Either you will be the discovery expert that shapes the engagement of our Buyers’ community and personalization of the platform. Or the data-driven PM who boosts our supply by building simple yet powerful ML tools for our sellers and internal experts. Or you're the FinTec and Payments expert to turn winning auctions into delightful and memorable experiences, for both buyers and sellers.

As a member of the Product Team you will be setting the vision and executing the strategy to conquer this last frontier. With a team of high performing Data Scientists, Engineers and Designers, you will:

• Relentlessly focus on what’s best for our customers and our business
• Understand and identify customer behaviors and needs through research and analysis, working closely with Data Scientists and UX researchers
• Take full ownership of the product, the roadmap and prioritization of new features and enhancements to existing features
• Execute on that roadmap with clearly defined outcomes and ownership of key goals and metrics
• Contribute to the overall Product Vision and Strategy for your product or portfolio of products
• Empower your team and cross-collaborate with other teams across the company to unlock their full potential
• Manage and work closely with your stakeholders: the commercial teams and experts, or marketing or finance teams to get the best ideas in and subsequently get everyone aligned for fast implementation

Your qualification

In addition to your demonstrable experience as a Senior Product Manager in a fast-growing online company, you also have:

• Customer-centric product mindset
• A strong sense of ownership and sense of urgency to everything you do
• Affinity with/understanding of machine learning to power automation and personalization
• Energy, a commercial focus; you’re a self-motivated and results-driven person who is not afraid to get their hands dirty to solve a problem
• Natural collaboration and communication skills, fluent in English, and good at posing probing questions to quickly and fully understand what someone's talking about
• An agile and innovative mindset with the tenacity to thrive in a constantly changing environment, plus the ability to deal with complexity and ambiguous situations
• An eagerness to learn; You seek continuous feedback and input
• Familiarity with A/B experimentation; you’re aware that valuable information comes from both positive and negative results through experimentation
• An interest and curiosity in the world of (online) auctions and marketplaces
• Experience as a Product Manager in a fast-growing (and ideally e-commerce focused) company

What we offer

This is your chance to join our mission to fulfil people’s passions, as part of a young and dynamic organisation. You'll be part of an enthusiastic, highly-motivated team of 800+ Catawikians. Additionally, you can expect:

• A challenging role in a diverse, international and fast-growing organisation with over 50 nationalities
• Regular fun activities both on and offline e.g summer parties, boat rides and regular team events
• Great secondary benefits including a holiday allowance and a fantastic pension plan paid for by Catawiki
• Hybrid ways of working between home and office. We offer remote and activity-based working, suited to the team and individual responsibilities
• We care about our teams’ wellbeing and offer a holistic wellbeing programme including our Employee Assistance Programme offering clinical services, single-session therapy, wellness support and more
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional growth;
• We want to help you celebrate special occasions in life by:
  • Providing employees with a 100 EURO Catavoucher upon joining and 50 EURO birthday Catavouchers;
  • Extra days of annual leave for work anniversaries at 3, 5, 8 and 10 years;
  • Additional leave allowances for important life events such as moving, engagement & marriage;
  • Each year Catawikians get an additional day’s leave to Pursue their Passion!

Please note that our benefits offering changes depending on which country you are employed in. For our country-specific offering please ask your recruiter. 

Additional details

Where you’ll be

This role is based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We also offer an excellent relocation package for people living outside of the Netherlands.

Our commitment to you

Catawiki’s eclectic team represents an international and intergenerational mix of people from different professional and cultural backgrounds. We foster an inclusive and queer-friendly work environment, committed to making every Catawikian feel welcomed and empowered. Whatever your story, we encourage you to bring your unique perspective to the table.

Catawiki stands with Ukraine and encourages people displaced by the current conflict to apply. In addition to the several initiatives we’ve launched, we’re open to ideas on ways we can continue to support the humanitarian effort.

Our offices and way of working

We have sensational offices in Amsterdam, Groningen, Paris and our newest office in Lisbon. Most of our employees are within commutable distance of one of our office locations and enjoy a hybrid work model. This means we expect you to be in the office 2 out of 5 days, roughly 40% of your working time, to collaborate and connect with each other. The exception is of course, if the job description specifically states that the role is 100% remote, as some experts and sales positions are.