Jobs at Christie's

Leads Christie's global Old Master Paintings private sales channel, developing strategy, sourcing opportunities, managing client relationships, closing profitable transactions, and coordinating cross-regional teams. Responsibilities include overseeing research, cataloguing, provenance and condition reviews, exhibitions, client presentations, marketing initiatives, and sales performance. The role also manages key projects, improves processes, supports auctions, and collaborates with specialists, researchers, and internal departments.

Supports UK, Europe, and Middle East compliance activities, including AML, KYC, client due diligence, sanctions and PEP screening, risk assessments, regulatory filings, training, audits, investigations, and system testing. The role advises stakeholders, prepares suspicious activity disclosures, monitors regulatory developments, and promotes compliance best practices across the business.

Source, inspect, evaluate, price, and secure rare spirits consignments for domestic and international auctions across the Americas. Build relationships with collectors, trade clients, and producers; negotiate deals; coordinate client visits, warehouse inspections, photography, cataloguing, marketing initiatives, and auction lifecycles. Prepare catalogue essays, develop consignment strategies, manage sale processes, and collaborate cross-functionally while maintaining confidentiality and meeting multiple deadlines.

Lead a platform engineering team in designing, implementing, securing, and optimizing scalable Microsoft Azure PaaS environments. Responsibilities include cloud-native application enablement, infrastructure as code, CI/CD automation, governance, networking, observability, incident resolution, cost optimization, and root cause analysis. The role collaborates across engineering, security, architecture, and service management while mentoring junior engineers and evaluating new Azure capabilities.

Coordinates a temporary records management and digitization project, including auditing off-site records, scanning and indexing documents, uploading files to SharePoint, supporting retention compliance, monitoring milestones, preparing status reports, and coordinating with legal, library, project management, and departmental stakeholders. The role also supports sustainability, business continuity, archiving, and office relocation initiatives.

Supports exhibition preparation and gallery operations through administrative coordination, layout and floor-plan updates, vendor and contractor communication, meeting scheduling, inventory and spreadsheet maintenance, budgeting, invoice and purchase-order processing, and system updates. The role assists with gallery installations, breakdowns, projects, and daily requests, requiring occasional evening and weekend work and collaboration across logistics, facilities, marketing, security, and art departments.

Provides centralized administrative support for art and operations departments by processing consignment paperwork, purchase orders, inventory movements, sale audits, seller reconciliations, and property-data updates. Collaborates with Legal, Finance, Client Accounting, Accounts Payable, Art Transport, and Technology teams. Supports system changes through user acceptance testing and ensures accurate, timely completion of business requests in a fast-paced environment.

Coordinates research and catalog production for Christie’s Old Masters Group. Responsibilities include provenance and exhibition research, literature and copyright checks, catalogue essay writing, proposal support, client inquiries, and auction preview gallery installation. The role also handles lot cards, installation images, and general departmental tasks while managing multiple priorities and collaborating across teams.

Paid, onsite summer internship supporting Christie's art and operational teams. Responsibilities include administrative tasks, updating internal systems, provenance and auction research, cataloguing, client inquiries, proposal preparation, auction preview installations, analyst support, social media copy and image editing, and shipment release checks. Interns must commit to 40 hours weekly for 10 weeks and demonstrate interest in fine art, strong communication, curiosity, and collaboration.

Office Coordinator responsible for reception, client service, administrative support, office supplies, post, event planning, exhibitions, guest lists, shipping, and public-space projects at Christie’s Brussels office. The role supports the Belgian Luxury Cluster by handling vendor inquiries and coordinating valuation days. It requires strong organization, communication, confidentiality, multitasking, and fluency in French, Flemish, and English. This is an on-site position requiring 38 hours per week.

Leads Christie's English-language APAC social media content strategy, editorial planning, storytelling, campaign development, and content production. Manages Instagram, Facebook, LINE, vendors, budgets, and cross-functional stakeholders. Analyzes platform performance, delivers insights, and recommends optimization strategies to improve engagement, audience growth, brand awareness, and client acquisition. Requires strong English writing, creative production, social analytics, project management, and luxury, art, cultural, or premium-brand content experience.

Conducts legal research on art law, art finance, commercial, privacy, AML, sanctions, and labor matters. Drafts NDAs, demand letters, and commercial contracts; supports copyright clearance, intellectual property enforcement, stakeholder liaison, translations, and template management. The role requires strong English, Cantonese, and Mandarin skills, legal training, confidentiality, organization, adaptability, and proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Develops client engagement strategies for Hong Kong’s art and auction market. Researches collectors, identifies consignors and bidders, analyzes client and transaction data, supports specialist and advisor outreach, organizes client reviews, tracks follow-up actions, prepares reports, and maintains accurate database records.

Voluntary, unpaid London work experience providing observational exposure to Christie’s specialist, operational, and corporate teams. Participants shadow staff for one to four weeks, work full-time Monday to Friday, follow business dress and confidentiality requirements, and may indicate preferred clusters such as art departments, operations, marketing, finance, HR, or legal. Applicants must be at least 16, have UK work authorization, and submit a CV.

Develops collector, dealer, institutional, and trade-client relationships; sources auction and private-sale consignments; conducts jewellery valuations; negotiates terms; prepares catalogues and client materials; provides pricing and market intelligence; supports exhibitions, events, and sale execution; and contributes to commercial growth through international collaboration and industry representation.

Senior commercial leader based in Hong Kong responsible for originating and closing high-value consignments across Western and Asian Modern & Contemporary art. Drive revenue via auctions, private sales, and exhibitions; deepen top-tier client relationships; provide market intelligence and cross-category advisory; and align regional execution with global category strategy.

Lead Jewellery and Watches private sales for Asia Pacific: drive individual and partnered sales, build pipeline, manage inventory and margins, cultivate collector relationships, oversee exhibition strategy, coordinate global teams, project-manage regional initiatives, and improve sales processes.

Builds client relationships, sources and sells art property, appraises consignments, researches and writes catalogue content, prepares condition reports, supports auctions and exhibitions, coordinates marketing materials, and represents Christie’s at events and art fairs. The role collaborates with global specialists, overseas teams, and clients while developing new business opportunities and managing sale-related projects.

Lead and drive consigning and sales of 20th and 21st century art across Southeast Asia; develop and implement business strategies, manage client pipelines and high-value transactions, negotiate deals, collaborate with regional teams, mentor successors, and achieve revenue targets through auctions and private sales.