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 we offer over 75,000 unique items in auction , carefully curated by our passionate in-house experts.
Having sold over 20 million unique objects to date, we’re on a mission to become the world’s most popular destination for special objects. As a growing, diverse and sustainable scale-up, we proudly live by our core values:
- Taking ownership and driving impact
- Being open to change and feedback
- Being passionate about our mission and our customers.
If these values resonate with you, we’d love to explore how you can join us on this exciting journey!
About the role
As CRM Sr Specialist at Catawiki, you will own the development, execution, and optimisation of our global, data-driven CRM strategy. You will be responsible for ensuring that our communications are relevant, timely, and impactful - driving customer engagement, retention, and conversion across multiple channels. These include email, app push notifications, in-app messages, notification centre, and web banners.
Your mission will be to:
- Activate new Catawiki users and guide them towards becoming active participants.
- Reactivate dormant or inactive users with targeted and personalised strategies.
- Drive conversion from visitor to bidder (demand side) and visitor to submitter (supply side), with a strong focus on ensuring both result in wins and sales.
Collaboration is central to this role: you’ll work closely with Product Management, Brand, and Country Managers to design impactful CRM initiatives that align with business priorities and deliver measurable results.
What you’ll do
- Support your manager in shaping strategy while staying close to the action by leading the operational execution of Catawiki’s CRM programmes, ensuring they deliver impact and stays aligned with business goals
- Use data and insights to design, test, and optimise customer journeys that drive activation, retention, and revenue growth.
- Proactively identify opportunities for innovation and improvement, embedding analytical rigour into every step.
- Partner with cross-functional teams (Product, Brand, Country Management, Analytics) to ensure CRM efforts are integrated and impactful.
- Contribute to building functional expertise by sharing knowledge, encouraging ownership, and embracing a culture of experimentation and continuous learning.
What you’ll bring
You enjoy being hands-on with operational work and combine this with creativity, strategic vision, and analytical strength. You’re a confident leader who inspires others and delivers measurable business results.
- Experience: 5+ years of CRM experience, ideally in an eCommerce or digital marketplace environment, with proven results in driving customer activation, retention, and monetisation.
- Expertise: Strong knowledge of CRM channels (email, app, push, in-app, web) and best practices, with a data-driven approach to experimentation and optimisation.
- Analytical acumen: You thrive on using data to uncover insights, identify patterns, and make decisions. SQL knowledge is a plus.
- Leadership: Inspirational and collaborative person, comfortable guiding complex projects and driving department-wide impact.
- Functional skills: Excellent communication, project management, and stakeholder management skills; able to simplify complexity and drive execution.
- Mindset: Resilient, proactive, and adaptable; eager to embrace change, innovate, and create solutions.
- Customer focus: Passionate about Catawiki’s mission and customers, always thinking from the customer’s perspective.
Why You’ll Love Working with Us
- Create a Visible Impact by working at scale in a global organisation that serves millions of customers across 80+ categories. In our flat structure, every role has a broad scope that directly impacts both our customers and the business.
- Learn and Grow with Us through our Learning & Development initiatives, which include clear development plans and mentorship programmes designed to support your career progression.
- A Culture of Connection defines us. We’re a passionate, diverse and collaborative team of 800+ Catawikains and 60+ nationalities, all coming together to build a one-of-a-kind marketplace. 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 our team.
- Celebrate Life’s Moments with us at Catawiki. When you join us, you’ll receive a €100 Catavoucher, and on each birthday, you’ll get a €50 Catavoucher to celebrate. Enjoy an extra day off each year to “Pursue Your Passion”. We also recognise significant work anniversaries (3, 5, 8, 10 years) with additional time off, plus extra leave for life’s big moments like marriage, engagements, or moving house.
Please note that benefits can vary by location. For specific information regarding what’s available in your country, please consult your recruiter.
Our Offices and Way of Working
Our vibrant offices in Amsterdam, Paris and Lisbon are designed to inspire and connect. Most Catawikians are within commuting distance of one of our offices and enjoy the flexibility of a hybrid work model. This means that you will be in the office 2 out of 5 days (40% of your working time) to collaborate and connect with your colleagues. That said, some roles may be an exception: if the job description states that the position is fully remote or 100% office-based, that arrangement will apply instead.
Interested?
Apply directly with an English CV and cover letter by submitting your information at the bottom of this page. By submitting your application you agree to Catawiki’s Applicant Privacy Policy.
If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
