Bending Spoons
Graduate product manager
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Graduate product manager
About Bending Spoons
At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies—one where team members grow to their full potential, the company functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness, and value for shareholders is created at an extraordinary rate.
Guided by rigorous ethical standards, we acquire and transform digital businesses for the long term, embedding AI deeply into every process. Our flatter hierarchy, small teams, and autonomous spirit let us operate like startups while maintaining stability and scale.
Working here means learning rapidly, making an impact, and advancing your career at an exceptional pace. We hire extraordinary individuals and give them the best possible environment to thrive—whether you’re in your 20s leading a multi-billion-dollar product or just starting your journey.
Key Responsibilities
Your role combines strategic thinking, creativity, and execution with AI-driven growth mentality. You’ll be expected to:
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Investigate
- Deeply understand your product, its business model, and growth drivers
- Use AI, data, and user research to uncover meaningful opportunities
- Challenge assumptions and identify areas needing improvement
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Innovate
- Combine user insights, market trends, and emerging tech to spot high-impact opportunities
- Leverage AI, modern tools, and first-principle reasoning to explore solutions quickly
- Sharpen your product thinking by refining actionable initiatives
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Execute
- Turn ideas into high-impact features
- Ruthlessly prioritize based on data
- Own development end-to-end, coordinating with designers, engineers, and cross-functional teams
- Ensure solutions meet core user needs
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Iterate
- Continuously test and measure product success
- Treat each project as a learning loop for sustained growth
What We Look For
We seek ambitious, talented, and collaborative individuals who deliver at the highest level:
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Exceptional Reasoning
- Solve complex problems from a first-principles perspective
- Resist cognitive biases and prioritize relevant details
- Communicate ideas clearly and rigorously
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Unmatched Drive
- Display extreme ambition and match it with effort, initiative, and tenacity
- Feel a deep sense of responsibility for outcomes
- Continuously raise your standards
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True Team Spirit
- Give generously—no strings attached
- Support the best idea, not just your own
- Be hands-on, reliable, and transparent
- Willing to get dirty for your colleagues
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- Read, write, and speak fluently in English to facilitate timely discussion
What We Offer
Working at Bending Spoons means joining a culture of 才能启发发展(fostering talent诞生), with exceptional growth, autonomy, and rewards. Here’s how we support that:
Exceptional People & Culture
- Work alongside top talent in small, high-impact teams
- Distinctive career progression—early-stage individuals lead products worth hundreds of millions by their mid-20s
- Authenticity and flexibility: contribute ideas, expect feedback, and collaborate fiercely
Growing Your Potential
- Customized development path—we invest deeply in finding you the right role to excel
- Unlimited backup for learning, training, and skill-building
- Encouragement to surface concepts and guide them into execution
Full Benefits Package
- Transparency & Accountability: straightforward compensation practices, no surprise structures
- Equity participation: if hired on permanent contracts, access to discounted-issued shares to match pass performance
- Financial security: starting minimum salaries in Italy (
€66K), Spain (€66K), Poland (€66K), and London (£85,800) with pay ranges up to ~£250K in London based on seniority and impact - Milan-specific: up to 50% tax-reducing benefits for new hire relocations
Further perks:
- Flexible working hours & remote eligibility from select countries
- World-class health insurance & mental wellness programs
- Fertility, maternity, and paternity support benefits
- Space for growth & focus: location to visit is provided for your annual retreat
Compensation scales, equity offering, and talent support adjust per role urgency and experience. Beyond structural maximization, capable professionals may access discussions about the broader impacts of their work.
Networking Influence
- Relocation tax assistance; job scales rise with your development trajectory
- “Permanent countermeasures” and supporting transforms facilitate continuous upskill
Roles & Contracts
We hire freely, fairly, and flexibly:
- Limited or Permanent contracts
- Part-time or Full-time (preference of application drives extent)
Where We Are
Available in:
- Milan (Italy), London (UK)
- Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland) Or entirely remote from select countries (with the appropriate rubric criteria)
Job Selection Process
Our approach is direct and signals-driven. Rejection motives are transparent without auto-expectations of repertoire. At no point is a path—or experience level—superior to evaluations of competency and aptitude. AI is clear guide, never judge blindly.
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Interested applicants follow these inclusive avenues:
- No preferential routes
- Screening prioritizes tangible achievements :and factors where you initiate nearly unseen contributions Be cautious: internal rules mean excellent candidates sometimes apply overtrackers can much pick off Newsite mentions will only land if genuine motive checks later
Initial scrutiny includes cognitive and practical tests. Read about more, precisely approach to evaluate here.
Given potentially unfamiliar workloads and rigorous case studies, our content reviews are assigned hours extra: exceptions frequently may require waiting just over standard deadlines(some roles deploy.)
If encouraged after screening, further conversations will match your trial (tionsational personas tapoon). Our bar, stretched aggressively, may prompt repeat hiring posts, hence slower finalization for the ideal culture invitees. Reasonable accessibility and adjustability forms, upon additional affirmations.
Selection Requires Decision
Applicants with prior rejections left pending moves later: Wait one year to re-initiate.
Before Applying
Clarity and Ambitions Critical
A Note: Entry-stage considerations Do you wish to join a demanding field where commitment primer] Deeper talent releases collateral tool? Bending Spoons is benchmarking not ambition, but matched ax führquistion.
Here’s what to anticipate: Work locations often start-are Milanian Premiere Offsite bond establishing guest or replicated periods. This is intended to cache-specific foundations; full remote job flexes remain possible under negotiated conversion post-introductory staged paradigm. Accommodations and travel grants provided throughout exceedingly cooperative executive sponsorships.
If key values and ideals align, give us your starkest integrity on:
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Demanding Standards
The finest opportunities foster high-quality output—we expect significant diligence from you as you would from us.
Let these bold, exemplary, urgent components serve either memorable or any scenario for us to collaborate!
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