Bending Spoons
Growth manager
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Growth manager
About This Role
At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. A company that serves a huge number of customers, where team members can grow to their full potential, and where unparalleled effectiveness and efficiency create extraordinary value—not just for shareholders, but for everyone involved. We acquire and improve digital businesses to operate them for the long term, not to sell. Our transformations often redefine goals, speeding up innovation, benefiting customers, and strengthening business performance.
At Bending Spoons:
- Hierarchy is minimal; teams are small and talent-dense.
- Established products are run with the ambition, agility, and urgency of a startup.
- AI is deeply embedded in our work, reinforcing human judgment with machine intelligence.
For the right candidate—talented, driven, and collaborative—this is more than a job. It’s an opportunity to learn, make an impact, and scale a career exceptionally fast. That’s the promise we make to those who choose to join us.
About the Team
In this role, you’ll join a technical or analytical team responsible for driving product growth, leveraging data, AI, and experimentation to optimise performance, enhance user experience, and maximise business impact.
Responsibilities
You’ll play a key part in understanding, analysing, ideating, testing, and scaling growth initiatives. Key areas included:
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Understand
- Build deep expertise in your product and its business model.
- Identify and prioritise the key levers driving growth.
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Analyze
- Use AI, automation, and advanced analytics to explore high-performing campaigns.
- Dig into user behaviour, product data, and market patterns to generate actionable insights.
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Ideate
- Translate insights, experiments, competitor research, and AI-assisted exploration into hypotheses.
- Spot opportunities to improve growth, monetisation, and overall performance.
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Test
- Design and run rigorous experiments with real users.
- Collaborate closely with designers, engineers, and analysts to turn ideas into reality and refine them rapidly based on results.
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Scale
- Roll out winning strategies broadly across products or markets.
- Apply learnings from each iteration to prioritise and inform the next phase of experimentation.
Your work will sit at the heart of data-driven decision-making, ensuring our products evolve in ways that matter.
Requirements
We’re looking for individuals who bring a mix of sharp analytical ability, relentless drive, and a team-first mindset. Consider yourself a fit if these describe you:
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Exceptional reasoning ability
- You break down complex problems from first principles and structure your thinking clearly and logically.
- You challenge biases and assumptions, focusing on what truly matters.
- You catch and own the details that make the difference.
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Ruthless drive and ambition
- You’re extremely ambitious but also proactive, persistent, and tenacious—yelping effort to match your ambition.
- You take deep ownership of your work and hold yourself to an unstoppingly high standard.
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A team player with humility
- You’re selfless, contributing freely and supporting the best idea—even if it’s not your own.
- You joyfully get your hands dirty to help the team succeed.
- You’re reliable, honest, and transparent—diagonally consistent.
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Strong English proficiency
- You read, write, and speak in fluent, precise English with no hesitancy.
What We Offer
Stimulating Work & Career Growth
- Join talented, entrepreneurial teams—each dedicated to making strides across industries.
- Exceptional progression: Our fastest growlers—including those in their early 20s—lead products that reach hundreds of millions in value.
- Safe experimentation is encouraged within our culture of rapid iteration and impact.
Generous Compensation & Equity
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Competitive pay scales:
- Entry-level base salary (London, UK): £85,797
- Entry-level base salary (Rest of Europe): €66,065
- Experienced roles (London): £112,189 to £250,512
- Experienced roles (Rest of Europe): €107,837 to €188,848
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Market-leading benefits including:
- Full-time or part-time flexibility
- Responsibilities (full-time) or part-time flexibility
- Flexible hours & remote work
- Unlimited investment in learning and professional development
- First-class health insurance
- Relocation assistance (including competitor office relocation support)
- Generous parental support policies
- Annual company retreat to inspirational locations
- 🍽️ Meal plans and access to on-site cafes
- Well-being stipends
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Performance-linked pay increases backed by regular promotions and higher total compensation as you grow.
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Equity participation: When hired on a permanent contract, you’ll receive company equity at a discounted price, allowing you to share in future value creation.
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Commitment
- Contract type: Permanent or fixed-term.
- Employment type: Full-time or part-time at the candidate’s discretion.
Location
- Single-office locations:
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Milan (Italy)
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London (UK)
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Madrid (Spain)
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Warsaw (Poland)
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Remote friendly roles: Fully remote from eligible countries.
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The Selection Process
We evaluate candidates based on demonstrable capability and potential, regardless of how recent their achievements or the level of experience.
We reject illogical assumptions (such as waiting “for the ‘right moment.’”). If you believe you have the talent—earn through effort when you believe in yourself—the first step applies.
🔹Your application should present "proofs of excellence" directly. No circumstantial paths.
- Applications are accepted exclusively via the [Career Page]({your link}).
- We won’t discriminate or favor anyone on the basis of something but your background per application.
- If successful and deemed worthy, you’ll complete one or more challenging tests. These may include:
- Open-ended, non-standard problems designed to reveal problem-solving brilliance.
- Tasks lasting hours—decide for yourself if you can devote time to a high-impact result.
For further detail on what to anticipate, [visit our application notes]({resources page link}).
About Our Standards & Timelines
- Open roles often stay active for extended periods or reopen after review. Our thoroughness means we may wait longer than you’d find at other companies.
- Monthly postings won’t flood our inbox—do stay front and center.
- Fair inclusion: We provide reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants—[request accommodations here]({form url}).
Why Apply?
In this time of intense demand, exceptional results and meaningful growth awaiting you.
Important disclaimer:
- Bending Spoons is an extremely challenging environment. Our culture values reluquence, intensity, and relentless pursuit of exceptional outcomes. It goes hand in hand with rapid learning, achievement, and career success—but these come with great demands.
- Expectation:
- You’ll de-relocate to the Milan office from your location and settle in rapidly during your onboarding (translation via company-assisted transport, subsidized).
Take it young. Apply now—let’s make a difference together.
🔹 P.S.—If you’ve applied already but didn’t receive an offer, we recommend waiting one year for a reapplication, unless you gain additional substance in your skillset and resume.
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