Growth Manager

About Bending Spoons

Bending Spoons aims to establish itself as one of the greatest companies by serving a vast customer base, fostering employee growth, maintaining exceptional operational efficiency, and creating extraordinary shareholder value all while upholding strong ethical standards. The company acquires and operates digital businesses long term, accelerating innovation, enhancing customer benefits, and boosting business performance through deep organizational transformations. It features flat hierarchies, small and skilled teams, and integrates AI extensively to combine human insight with machine intelligence.

Role Overview and Responsibilities

• Develop a profound understanding of the product, its business model, and key growth drivers.
• Utilize artificial intelligence, automation, and advanced analytics to evaluate high-performing campaigns, detect patterns within user and product data, and derive actionable insights.
• Generate hypotheses and identify opportunities to enhance growth and monetization based on insights, experimental results, competitor analysis, and AI-driven research.
• Design and execute rigorous user experiments collaboratively with designers, engineers, and analysts, iterating rapidly based on findings.
• Implement successful initiatives at scale and leverage learnings to inform further discovery and testing cycles.

Required Qualities and Skills

• Strong reasoning capability, able to solve complex problems by thinking from fundamental principles, structuring ideas clearly, avoiding biases, and focusing on crucial details.
• High ambition and drive, showing initiative, perseverance, and deep accountability with a commitment to continuous self-improvement.
• Team-oriented mindset, willing to support the best ideas regardless of origin, and contribute selflessly and transparently to team success.
• Proficiency in English, including reading, writing, and speaking skills.

What Bending Spoons Offers

• Work alongside exceptionally talented and entrepreneurial individuals in small, autonomous, result-driven teams.
• Access to exceptional career growth with opportunities to lead high-impact projects and products worth hundreds of millions of dollars early in your career.
• Comprehensive benefits including flexible working hours, remote work options, unlimited learning and training support, premium health insurance, relocation assistance, generous parental support, and annual retreats.
• Competitive compensation packages that vary by location and experience: typical salaries in London start around £85,797 for less experienced candidates and range up to £250,512 for those with significant relevant experience; European salaries range between €66,065 and €188,848 respectively. Exceptional performers may receive offers exceeding typical ranges and equity participation at a discounted price. Relocation to Italy includes a potential 50% tax reduction.

Additional Information

Contract types: Permanent or fixed-term; full-time or part-time options available.
Locations: Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), or fully remote from eligible countries.

The application process rigorously evaluates candidates through standardized tests involving challenging and novel problems. Applicants are encouraged not to self-select out due to perceived experience gaps.

New hires are expected to spend their initial months working onsite at the Milan office to immerse themselves in the company culture and build team rapport, supported by travel and accommodation assistance. Subsequent work arrangements can be remote or from any company office, depending on agreements made at the offer stage.

Bending Spoons is a demanding environment with high standards for personal and team achievement, requiring substantial commitment but offering rapid learning, accomplishments, and career advancement.

Reasonable accommodations are provided for candidates with disabilities upon request.

Applicants are advised to wait at least a year before reapplying if previously unsuccessful.