Product Manager — Art Auction Tech & Workflow Lead

Sotheby's Institute of Art; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Benefits package

Job summary

Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York is seeking a product-focused professional to own and define the internal tool roadmap. You will collaborate with designers, engineers, and business partners to streamline complex workflows and deliver elegant solutions.

The role emphasizes learning, teamwork, and the ability to translate business needs into concrete product requirements. You will influence product strategy and ensure measurable impact across staff operations.

Qualifications

• Experience building software solutions for complex business workflows.
• Writes clear specifications for features, including user stories, acceptance criteria, and related documentation.
• Identify when and how to collaborate with design to better define the problem and include design in ideation.
• Work with larger teams involving technology and business functions to deliver value quickly.
• Ensure all parties share understanding of the problem and proposed solution.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a roadmap aligned with end-user needs that feed into your manager’s roadmap and communicate delivery and impact to company goals to stakeholders.
• Work in a cross functional product team with design, engineering, QA, along with other product teams to map out requirements and incrementally deliver clear solutions to complex business problems.
• Lead the prioritization of work and manage requests by examining costs and benefits while maintaining positive and candid relationships with stakeholders.
• Engage in user research and interviews, use data to drive decisions and prioritize work.
• Collaborate with business partners to drive adoption of new tools and product features
• Have strong and clear working relationships with business sponsors, stakeholders, and users of their product. Understand their needs, but can use data to prioritize requests and be persuasive in delivering the right user outcomes.

Skills

Software development

Specification writing

Design collaboration

Cross-functional teams

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York is seeking a product-focused professional to own and define the internal tool roadmap. You will collaborate with designers, engineers, and business partners to streamline complex workflows and deliver elegant solutions.

The role emphasizes learning, teamwork, and the ability to translate business needs into concrete product requirements. You will influence product strategy and ensure measurable impact across staff operations.