Head of Creative

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 110,000 unique items in auction, carefully curated by our passionate in-house experts.

Having sold over 25 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!

What you’ll do

• Lead and Inspire a High-Performing Creative Team: Manage, mentor, and grow a cross-functional team of designers, copywriters, and creative operations. Foster a strong internal culture while collaborating with external partners to scale quality creative output.

• Build and Evolve the Catawiki Brand: Own and elevate our brand identity — visual, verbal, and strategic — ensuring consistency and quality across all touchpoints. Define brand guidelines and apply them rigorously across teams, formats, and markets.

• Deliver 360° Campaigns That Drive Growth: Develop and execute integrated campaigns across CRM, Performance, Social, PR, and beyond. Work closely with internal stakeholders to ensure every creative asset delivers business impact and reinforces brand equity.

• Translate Strategy into Creative That Performs: Turn complex business objectives and customer insights into compelling creative that cuts through. Ruthlessly prioritize work that drives brand awareness, engagement, and measurable ROI.

• Champion Innovation and Scalable Creative Excellence: Continuously raise the creative bar by exploring new formats, technologies, and tools — with a big emphasis on AI-driven tools — to accelerate production, improve relevance, and stay ahead of industry trends.

The Head of Creative will report to the Director of Brand & Communications.

What you’ll bring

• Proven Creative Leader: You bring 8+ years of experience leading multidisciplinary creative teams in fast-paced environments. You’ve thrived in lean, high-growth settings where budgets are limited and creative needs to deliver real business impact — ideally with a mix of in-house and agency experience.

• Strategic Brand Thinker: You understand how to build, grow, and protect a brand — balancing long-term equity with short-term performance needs across multiple markets, audiences, and touchpoints.

• Commercially Minded: You connect creative work to business outcomes, using data, insights, and KPIs to prioritize high-impact initiatives. You focus on ROI, not just reach, and know how to make creative highly impactful and deliver our business objectives.

• 360° Campaign Builder: You have a strong track record of developing integrated campaigns that span CRM, social, performance, PR, and product surfaces — and know how to adapt and scale ideas across each while maintaining coherence.

• Craft-Obsessed and Quality-Driven: You set a high bar for design, copy, and execution. You know how to scale quality without compromising creativity, and you care deeply about every detail — from concept to final output.

• AI-Powered and Tech-Smart: You go beyond curiosity — you're hands-on with AI tools for design, copy, and motion, and use them to increase speed, efficiency, and quality. You lead by example in bringing innovation into the team’s daily work.

• Collaborative and Influential: You thrive in cross-functional environments, building alignment and trust with marketing, product, brand, and leadership stakeholders. You know how to rally teams around creative ideas that serve broader goals.

• Resilient and Resourceful: You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities, and limited resources. You move fast, make smart calls, and maintain creative integrity — even when the pressure’s on.

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 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. 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?

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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.