Senior Brand Designer

Job Description

At Catawiki, every day brings the extraordinary! Whether it’s Daniel Ricciardo’s Formula 1 Car, a Woolly Mammoth’s Skeleton, Lady Gaga’s Jumpsuit or Usain Bolt’s running shoe, we encounter exceptional objects every day.

We’re a one-of-a-kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects. Each week, more than 110,000 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.

About the role

Develop Strong Visual Concepts and Campaign Ideas: Translate brand strategy and marketing objectives into distinctive visual concepts. Work closely with copywriters and marketers to develop campaign ideas, key visuals and creative directions that bring the Catawiki brand to life across channels.

Create High-Impact Visual Design: Design compelling creative assets across marketing touchpoints including campaigns, digital advertising, social media, CRM, landing pages and commercial materials. Ensure every output meets high standards of craft, clarity and brand consistency.

Use AI to Accelerate Creative Production: Leverage generative AI tools to develop imagery, motion and video assets that bring ideas to life quickly and efficiently. Translate creative briefs into structured AI workflows, iterate rapidly and apply strong art direction to ensure outputs remain visually distinctive and on-brand. You treat AI as a creative partner - using it to explore ideas, increase creative velocity and unlock visual directions that would be difficult to produce through traditional workflows.

Build Scalable Creative Systems: Develop visual frameworks and Key Visuals that can scale across multiple formats, channels and markets. Use AI to efficiently generate variations and adaptations while maintaining brand consistency and visual excellence.

Maintain and Evolve the Brand Design System: Contribute to the evolution of Catawiki’s visual identity and design guidelines. Ensure creative work remains consistent, distinctive and aligned with the broader brand strategy.

Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with Brand, Performance Marketing, CRM, PR, Product and Category Marketing teams to deliver integrated creative work. Translate strategic briefs into clear visual solutions and partner with designers, copywriters and marketers to bring ideas to life.

What you’ll bring

Experienced and Craft-Driven: You bring 6+ years of experience as a designer, ideally in a fast-paced digital, tech or creative environment. Your portfolio demonstrates strong visual thinking across campaigns, digital design and brand communication. We’re particularly interested in work that shows:

• Development of Key Visuals or campaign identities
• Digital-first creative (social, paid campaigns, landing pages, CRM)
• Examples of AI-assisted creative production or experimentation
• Ability to translate ideas into scalable visual systems

Conceptually Strong: You are comfortable turning ideas into compelling visual concepts and campaign directions. You know how to develop Key Visuals and visual systems that scale across multiple formats and platforms.

AI-Native Creative: You actively use generative AI tools as part of a broader creative workflow - from concept exploration and visual prototyping to asset production and adaptation. You understand both the possibilities and limitations of AI and know how to guide outputs with strong art direction to ensure results remain distinctive, controlled and on-brand.

Digitally Fluent: You have strong experience designing for digital environments including social media, paid campaigns, CRM and landing pages. You understand how design adapts across channels and audience contexts.

Visually Sharp: You have a strong instinct for composition, lighting, colour, visual storytelling and aesthetics. You are able to translate creative briefs into visually clear, compelling and distinctive solutions.

Curious and Forward-Thinking: You actively explore new tools, technologies and creative workflows. You stay up to date with developments in AI-driven creativity and continuously experiment with new ways to improve creative output.

Collaborative and Proactive: You communicate clearly, take ownership of your projects and thrive in cross-functional environments. You’re resourceful, pragmatic and comfortable working in a scale-up environment where priorities move quickly.

Curious About Exceptional Objects: You’re genuinely interested in unique objects and the stories behind them. An affinity with art, design, collectibles or luxury objects is a plus.

The role is based in Amsterdam, 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, Paris 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. 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.