About
At Bending Spoons, we're striving to build one of the all-time great companies. A company that serves a huge number of customers. A company where team members grow to their full potential. A company that functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency. A company that creates value for shareowners at an extraordinary rate. And a company that does so while adhering to high ethical standards.
Responsibilities
•Build a deep understanding of your product, its business model, and the drivers behind its growth.
•Use AI, data, and user research to quickly uncover meaningful opportunities and challenge assumptions.
•Combine user insights, market signals, and emerging technologies to identify high-impact initiatives and features.
•Use modern tools, first-principles reasoning, and your creative insights to explore solution spaces quickly and sharpen product thinking.
•Turn ideas into impactful features.
•Prioritize ruthlessly, using data to focus on what truly moves the needle.
•Own the development process end-to-end, coordinating designers, engineers, and other teammates to build solutions that address users' most important needs.
•Use experimentation and product metrics to understand what works and what doesn't.
•Treat every project as a learning loop, using insights from past work to improve the product continuously.
Requirements
•Given the necessary knowledge, you can solve complex problems.
•You think from first principles, and structure your ideas sharply.
•You resist the influence of biases.
•You identify and take care of the details that matter.
•You're extremely ambitious in everything you do—and your initiative, effort, and tenacity match the intensity of your ambition.
•You feel deeply responsible for your work.
•You hold yourself to a high—and rising—bar.
•You give generously and without the expectation of receiving in return.
•You support the best idea, not your idea.
•You're always happy to get your hands dirty to help your team.
•You're reliable, honest, and transparent.
•You read, write, and speak proficiently in English.
Conditions
You'll work in small, result-oriented, autonomous teams alongside some of the brightest people in your field. Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Benefits include flexible hours, remote working, unlimited backing for learning and training, top-of-the-market health insurance, a rich relocation package, generous parental support, and a yearly retreat to a stunning location.
Typical annual salary offers range from £85,797 to £151,436 in London and from €66,065 to €107,837 elsewhere in Europe. The lower end of these ranges applies to candidates with little or no relevant experience, while exceptionally experienced candidates may receive offers of up to £316,052 in London or €240,330 elsewhere in Europe. Candidates offered a permanent contract may choose to receive part of their compensation in discounted company equity.
Permanent or fixed-term. Full-time or part-time. To help you ramp up quickly and set yourself up for success, you are expected to spend most days in the Milan office during the first few months, regardless of long-term work location, with generous travel and accommodation assistance provided. After that, you're welcome to work from one of the offices, or remotely from approved countries—depending on what's agreed at the offer stage.
