Bending Spoons
Product manager
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Product manager
#/product-Transformation Manager
Bending Spoons is striving to become one of the all-time great companies. Here’s why:
- Serving a huge number of customers
- Where team members grow to their full potential
- Functioning with unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency
- Creating value for shareholders at an extraordinary rate
- Adhering to high ethical standards
About the Role
In pursuit of these objectives, Bending Spoons acquires and improves digital businesses, not for sale, but to own and operate for the long term. The transformations we create are often deep, aiming to:
- Speed up innovation
- Benefit customers
- Strengthen business performance
At Bending Spoons:
- Hierarchy is minimal
- Teams are small and talent-dense
- Established products operate with startup ambition, agility, and urgency
- AI is embedded deeply into our work, reinforcing human judgment and machine intelligence.
Working here is an opportunity to:
- Learn
- Make an impact
- Progress your career at an exceptionally high rate
Responsibilities
A few examples of your roles include:
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Investigate:
- Build a deep understanding of your product, its business model, and the drivers behind its growth.
- Use AI, data, and user research to uncover meaningful opportunities and challenge assumptions.
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Innovate:
- Combine user insights, market signals, and emerging technologies to identify high-impact initiatives and features.
- Use modern tools, first-principles reasoning, and creative insights to explore solution spaces and sharpen product thinking.
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Execute:
- Turn ideas into impactful features.
- Prioritize ruthlessly, using data to focus on what truly moves the needle.
- Own the development process end-to-end: coordinate designers, engineers, and other teammates to build solutions that address users’ most important needs.
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Iterate:
- Use experimentation and product metrics to determine what works and what doesn’t.
- Treat every project as a learning loop to continuously improve the product.
Requirements
We are seeking individuals who demonstrate the following qualities:
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Reasoning ability:
- Solve complex problems when given the right knowledge.
- Think from first principles and structure ideas sharply.
- Resist biases and address the details that matter.
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Drive:
- Extensive ambition with matching initiative, effort, and tenacity.
- Feel a deep responsibility for your work.
- Hold yourself to a high—and rising—bar.
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Team spirit:
- Actively contribute without the expectation of immediate reciprocity.
- Support the best ideas, not your own.
- Be ready to roll up your sleeves to support the team.
- Be reliable, honest, and transparent.
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Proficiency in English:
- Strong in reading, writing, and speaking.
Benefits
Here at Bending Spoons, we provide:
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Exceptionally talented, entrepreneurial teams:
- Small, result-oriented, autonomous teams.
- Collaborate with some of the brightest people in the industry.
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Unequalled growth opportunity:
- Prioritise individuals of outstanding potential and exceedingly supportive positions.
- Spooners often lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars already in their 20s.
- Deserving individuals quickly become critical in major projects.
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Outstanding benefits:
- Flexible hours and remote working
- Unlimited learning and training support
- Top-of-the-market health insurance
- Rich relocation packages
- Generous parental support
- Yearly retreat to stunning locations
- Conditions tailored to help each Spooner craft their best work
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Competitive pay and equity participation:
- Typical starting annual salary in London: £85,797
- Typical starting annual salary elsewhere in Europe: €66,065
- For candidates with considerable relevant experience:
- In London: £112,189 - £250,512
- Elsewhere in Europe: €107,837 - €188,848
- Compensation varies based on location and expected impact and grows rapidly based on experience.
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Long-term value creation via equity:
- Offering part of your salary in company equity at a discounted price, enabling participation in the company’s ongoing value creation.
- In Italy, employees may benefit from a 50% tax cut.
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Commitment & Employment Conditions
- Full-time or part-time contracts available.
- Permanent or fixed-term roles eligible.
Location
- Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), or fully remote work from eligible countries.
Selection Process
Our screening process prioritises:
- Verifiable signals of excellence, irrespective of seniority.
- Uniform evaluation for every candidate—there are no shortcuts beyond the strength of your application.
We understand that some may hesitate due to perceived lack of experience or lesser-than-perfect CVs.
- No preferential paths, beyond applying effectively through our career webpage.
- Candidates making it past the initial screening undergo one or more tests which:
- Are intensively rigorous, may contain unfamiliar problems, and can take several hours.
- Offer more insight through additional information.
Taking on the Challenge
We don’t extend an offer unless we’re definitely sure about your fit—reasons many roles remain open for months or get reposted several times.
- All applicants for employment are considered.
- Reasonable accommodations provided for individuals with disabilities—kindly inform us through accommodation form.
Should you have previously applied without receiving an offer, our advice:
- Wait at least one year before attempting to apply again.
Culture & Expectations
You must ready for a demanding environment:
- Extraordinarily ambitious team with relentlessly high expectations.
- Committed to significant time and effort for learning, achievement, and career advancement.
Onboarding & Location
To help you boot up swiftly and set you up for success:
- Expected to spend most of your early months in the Milan office, irrespective of future location.
- Assistance with transportation and substantial housing expenses.
- After focusing initially on absorbing company culture and building trust, you can work from approved offices or from approved remote countries.
If the role resonates with you and you are eager to contribute your best, forward that energy through applying. We eagerly await hearing from you.
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