Data Professional

About Bending Spoons

At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. Our objective is to serve a huge number of customers, foster team members' full potential, operate with unparalleled effectiveness and efficiency, create extraordinary value for shareowners, and adhere to high ethical standards. We achieve this by acquiring digital businesses with untapped potential and leveraging our robust platform—comprising our expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and company culture—to maximize their success. The proceeds are then reinvested to strengthen our platform and acquire new businesses, combining an investor’s attention to capital allocation with a hands-on operator’s approach.

For talented, driven, and collaborative individuals, Bending Spoons offers an exceptional opportunity to learn, make a significant impact, and accelerate their career progression.

The Role of a Data Professional

This position is ideal for anyone ambitious about building their career in data, regardless of whether you're just starting out or bringing years of experience. What matters most is a fearless sense of ownership and a relentless drive to sharpen your data skills in pursuit of ever-greater impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product and Business teams to identify critical questions that big data can address, then devise methods to uncover those insights.
• Query and analyze massive sets of usage data to pinpoint product-improvement opportunities and actionable insights that profoundly influence our product strategy and roadmap.
• Produce concise, high-quality reports to clearly explain your findings and discuss their implications with relevant team members.
• Actively screen app stores and study competing products to gather insights and ideas for our own learning and development.
• Contribute to the direction and development of our technologies dedicated to the acquisition, storage, and manipulation of big data, continually breaking new ground in this field.

What We Look For

• Reasoning ability: The capacity to solve complex problems given the necessary knowledge. You think from first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist biases, and meticulously handle important details.
• Drive: Extreme ambition in all endeavors, matched by initiative, effort, and tenacity. You take deep responsibility for your work and consistently raise your own high standards.
• Team spirit: A willingness to give generously without expectation of return, support the best idea over your own, assist your team enthusiastically, and demonstrate reliability, honesty, and transparency.
• Proficiency in English: Strong reading, writing, and speaking skills in English are essential.

What We Offer

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams: Work in small, result-oriented, autonomous teams alongside some of the brightest minds in your field.
• An exceptional opportunity for growth: We hire individuals with outstanding potential and prioritize placing them in positions to thrive. Spooners in their 20s often lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and you’ll soon play an essential role in major projects if you have what it takes.
• Competitive pay and access to equity: We offer competitive annual salaries, with specific ranges for London (£85,797 - £250,512) and elsewhere in Europe (€66,065 - €188,848), depending on experience and location. Compensation grows rapidly with experience and contribution. Exceptional individuals may receive higher compensation. Permanent contract holders can access company equity at a discounted price. Relocating to Italy may offer a 50% tax cut.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy flexible hours, remote working options, unlimited backing for learning and training, top-of-the-market health insurance, a generous relocation package, parental support, and a yearly retreat to a stunning location. We ensure each Spooner has the conditions to excel.
• Flexible start date and part-time options: You don't need to wait until graduation to apply. We offer flexible start dates and the possibility to begin part-time, transitioning to full-time as you complete your degree.

Commitment & Contract

Permanent or fixed-term. Full-time or part-time.

Location

Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland) or remote in selected countries.

The Selection Process

Our screening process prioritizes verifiable signals of excellence, irrespective of seniority. We encourage all who believe they can excel to apply. If you pass screening, you’ll complete challenging tests that may involve unfamiliar problems and take several hours. We set a high bar, ensuring we find the right candidate, which may mean a job remains open or is reposted for some time. We are an equal opportunity employer and provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

Before You Apply

If you've applied previously without an offer, we recommend waiting at least one year before reapplying. Bending Spoons is a demanding environment, requiring significant commitment due to our ambition and high standards. This leads to extraordinary learning and career growth.

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. We provide generous travel and accommodation assistance. Afterward, you may work from our offices in Milan or London, or remotely from approved countries, as agreed at the offer stage.

If this role excites you and you're ready to give your best, we encourage you to apply now.

Key skills/competency

• Data Analysis
• Big Data
• SQL
• Product Strategy
• Business Intelligence
• Data Querying
• Reporting
• Data Acquisition
• Competitive Analysis
• Problem Solving