Senior Product Manager

Sotheby's•New York, NY

7d•$140,000 - $150,000

About The Position

Sotheby's is seeking a Senior Product Manager to support the VP of Product in owning, defining, and driving the product roadmap for a new initiative. This role involves translating business cases into a shippable platform across multiple releases, working closely with engineering, design, and the founding team to convert product vision into precise requirements and a defensible build-versus-buy strategy. The ideal candidate is a motivated, detail-oriented operator capable of managing a complex, multi-workstream launch, transforming ambiguity into a scoped roadmap, and collaborating with a senior team to deliver a premium product by a fixed deadline.

Requirements

4–6 years of product management experience in e-commerce, membership, hospitality, or technology platforms, ideally including at least one 0-to-1 or ground-up product launch.
Demonstrated interest in art, luxury, or cultural institutions.
Comfortable operating against a fixed, externally-driven launch date across multiple parallel workstreams (identity, booking, payments, content, CRM).
Organized, collaborative, and flexible, able to work calmly and professionally under time-sensitive deadlines with a small, senior team.
Persuasive, with excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to write requirements a stranger could build from.
Logical problem solver with strong attention to detail and a data-first mindset, including familiarity with engagement scoring, retention, or CRM-driven product work.
Experience evaluating build-versus-buy decisions and managing third-party vendors behind a defined interface layer.
Listens well to stakeholders and business owners while staying focused on delivering a high-quality, premium member experience.
Nimble with requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation; and knows standard product management frameworks.
Functions well in an agile environment and has prior experience with cross-platform digital transformation projects.
Comfortable working on a confidential, pre-announcement initiative and maintaining discretion outside the immediate team.

Nice To Haves

An undergraduate degree in a technical field or a quantitative discipline is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

Support the VP of Product in owning and maintaining the product roadmap across a sequence of major releases and the backlog.
Run day-to-day agile ceremonies and stakeholder meetings across product, engineering, design, and the wider operating team; track work in progress and unblock the delivery team.
Write precise, concise product requirements and specifications for core platform domains (identity, access, booking, payments, member services, CRM) in partnership with design and engineering.
Develop and maintain a point of view on build, buy, or hybrid for each platform domain, and manage the resulting vendor and integration decisions behind a controlled interface layer.
Partner with membership, experience, and service delivery leadership to ensure the platform supports the end-to-end member journey.
Own content-architecture and discovery requirements for member-facing editorial, ensuring it is structured for both member consumption and long-term platform needs.
Lead working sessions to make key decisions, remove obstacles, and surface risks against a fixed launch timeline, escalating trade-offs to the VP of Product with clear recommendations.
Develop strong working partnerships with cross-functional leaders (Marketing, Finance, Legal) to keep the platform aligned to business objectives and launch dates.
Take on both tactical and strategic work depending on team needs, from Agile ceremony facilitation to stakeholder workshops and executive-ready materials.