Overview
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 grow to their full potential, functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency, creates value for shareholders, and adheres to high ethical standards.
To achieve this objective, we acquire digital businesses with untapped potential and make them successful by leveraging our platform—expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and culture—then invest proceeds into making the platform stronger and acquiring new businesses.
Responsibilities
- Power digital products with AI. Work with product teams to identify high‑impact opportunities where AI can transform the user experience for millions, and build solutions to make them happen. Drive the process from possibility to production, delivering robust, reproducible code built for scale.
- Explore ways to push the boundaries of our AI capabilities. Stay at the bleeding edge of AI by investigating new models, techniques, and research. Learn fast across new domains, share findings, and turn breakthrough ideas into production systems that deliver real‑world impact.
- Refine data foundations for exceptional results. Own the full data lifecycle—from acquisition and labeling to loading and management—to ensure our models are trained on clean, high‑quality datasets that power top‑performing systems.
- Own your impact, end‑to‑end. Set smart priorities, manage execution, and consistently deliver high‑quality results, even in ambiguous or fast‑changing environments. Balance technical depth with strong ownership, growing your skills while delivering meaningful contributions.
What We Look For
- Reasoning ability. Solve complex problems using first‑principles thinking, structure ideas sharply, resist biases, and attend to important details.
- Drive. Be extremely ambitious, initiative‑driven, and tenacious. Feel deeply responsible for your work and hold yourself to a rising high bar.
- Team spirit. Give generously without expectation of return, support the best idea over your own, be reliable, honest, and transparent, and help your team wherever needed.
- Proficiency in English. Read, write, and speak proficiently in English.
What We Offer
- Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. Work in small, result‑oriented, autonomous teams alongside some of the brightest people in your field.
- An exceptional opportunity for growth. Join as a high‑potential individual and quickly assume responsibility for major projects. Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Competitive pay and equity. Typical salary starts at £83,997 in London and €63,965 elsewhere in Europe; for experienced candidates ranges between £110,389–£194,964 (London) and €105,737–€186,748 (Europe). You can also receive equity at a discounted price and benefit from a 50% tax cut when relocating to Italy.
- Benefits. Flexible hours, remote working, unlimited learning support, top‑of‑the‑market health insurance, relocation package, generous parental support, and a yearly retreat.
Commitment & Contract
Permanent or fixed‑term. Full‑time or part‑time.
Location
Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), or remote.
The Selection Process
If you pass our screening, you’ll take a few tests designed to assess how you approach unfamiliar problems. Successful candidates are invited to a series of interviews. We set a high bar and do not extend an offer until we’re convinced we’ve found the right candidate.
We recognize that highly talented candidates may be selected after multiple postings; the role remains open for months if necessary.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Bending Spoons is an equal‑opportunity and affirmative‑action employer. We consider all applicants for employment and provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities—just let us know through this form.
Before You Apply
If you have applied before but did not receive an offer, we recommend waiting at least one year before applying again.
Bending Spoons is a demanding environment. We are extremely ambitious and hold ourselves and one another to a high standard, which leads to extraordinary learning, achievement, and career growth, but also requires significant commitment.
To help you ramp up quickly, we recommend spending your first few months working from our Milan office, regardless of your long‑term work location. It is the best way to absorb our company culture and build trust with teammates. We’ll support you with generous travel and accommodation assistance. After that, you may work from our offices in Milan or London, or remotely from approved countries, depending on what we agree at the offer stage.
Apply Now
If the role speaks to you and you’re excited to give your best, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now—we can’t wait to meet you.
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