Data Specialist

About Bending Spoons

At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. Our strategy involves acquiring digital businesses with untapped potential and leveraging our platform—comprising expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and company culture—to maximize their success. We then reinvest proceeds to strengthen our platform and acquire new businesses. This combines an investor’s attention to capital allocation with an operator's hands-on approach.

Working at Bending Spoons offers talented, driven, and collaborative individuals an exceptional opportunity for rapid learning, significant impact, and accelerated career progression. This role is open to anyone ambitious about building a career in data, from those just starting out to those with years of experience. A fearless sense of ownership and a relentless drive to sharpen data skills for ever-greater impact are paramount.

A few examples of your responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product and Business teams to identify the most pressing questions big data can answer, and devise methods to uncover those insights.
• Query and analyze massive sets of usage data to pinpoint product-improvement opportunities and actionable insights that will profoundly impact our product strategy and roadmap.
• Create concise, high-quality reports to clearly explain your findings and discuss their implications with relevant team members.
• Screen app stores and thoroughly study competing products to discover insights and ideas we can learn from.
• Help guide the development of our technologies dedicated to the acquisition, storage, and manipulation of big data, supporting our continuous innovation in this field.

What we look for

• Reasoning ability: You can solve complex problems from first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist biases, and meticulously handle important details.
• Drive: You possess extreme ambition, matched by initiative, effort, and tenacity. You feel deeply responsible for your work and consistently raise your standards.
• Team spirit: You give generously, support the best ideas (not just your own), are eager to help your team, and demonstrate reliability, honesty, and transparency.
• Proficiency in English: You can read, write, and speak English proficiently.

What we offer

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams: You'll work in small, result-oriented, autonomous teams with 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, with Spooners in their 20s leading products worth hundreds of millions.
• Competitive pay and access to equity: Salaries are competitive and vary by location and expected impact, growing rapidly with experience. Exceptional performers may receive compensation beyond usual ranges. Permanent contract holders can acquire 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-tier health insurance, a rich relocation package, generous parental support, and a yearly retreat to a stunning location.

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 prioritizes verifiable signals of excellence, irrespective of seniority. We encourage all who believe they can excel to apply, even with less experience or an 'imperfect' CV. Successful applicants will complete challenging tests that may involve unfamiliar problems and take several hours. We maintain a high bar and only extend offers when confident in finding the right candidate, which means a job may remain open for extended periods. We consider all applicants and provide reasonable accommodations for 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, ambitious environment with high standards, leading to extraordinary learning and career growth but requiring significant commitment. To facilitate a quick ramp-up and ensure success, we recommend spending your first few months working from our Milan office, regardless of your long-term location. We provide generous travel and accommodation assistance. Afterward, you can work from our Milan or London offices, 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
• Data Insights
• Statistical Analysis
• Reporting
• Problem Solving
• Data Acquisition
• Market Research