Junior Data Scientist

Junior Data Scientist at Bending Spoons

Bending Spoons is on a mission to build one of the greatest companies of all time. We aim to serve a vast customer base, foster team member growth, operate with exceptional effectiveness and efficiency, generate extraordinary value for shareowners, and uphold high ethical standards.

Our Strategy

We acquire digital businesses with untapped potential and maximize their success by leveraging our platform, which includes our expertise, technologies, data, brand, talent, and culture. We integrate AI deeply into our operations, creating a synergy between human judgment and machine intelligence. The proceeds are reinvested to enhance our platform and acquire new businesses, combining an investor's strategic capital allocation with an operator's hands-on approach.

Opportunity for Growth

For driven, talented, and collaborative individuals, Bending Spoons offers an unparalleled opportunity to learn, make a significant impact, and accelerate career progression. Spooners in their 20s often lead products valued at hundreds of millions of dollars.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and improve data pipelines: Contribute to the architecture and ongoing development of data systems, ensuring data accuracy, reliability, and efficient processing across diverse technologies.
• Ensure data correctness and scalability: Collaborate with software engineers to verify data integrity, establish key metrics, and enhance the resilience of reporting and analytics systems.
• Develop internal data products and tooling: Build scalable solutions such as reporting engines and forecasting tools for use by product teams company-wide.
• Support platform-wide decision-making: Partner with various teams to provide the analytical and modeling foundation for strategic business planning and performance monitoring.
• Leverage AI for insights and efficiency: Utilize AI tools to expedite workflows, discover new opportunities, and analyze competitor products and market trends.

What We Look For

• Reasoning Ability: Aptitude for solving complex problems with first-principles thinking, sharp idea structuring, bias resistance, and attention to critical details.
• Drive: Intense ambition, initiative, effort, and tenacity, coupled with a strong sense of responsibility and a commitment to a high and continuously improving standard of work.
• Team Spirit: Generosity, a focus on the best idea over personal ideas, willingness to assist teammates, reliability, honesty, and transparency.
• English Proficiency: Fluency in reading, writing, and speaking English.

What We Offer

• Incredibly Talented, Entrepreneurial Teams: Work in small, autonomous, results-oriented teams with exceptionally bright individuals.
• Exceptional Growth Opportunity: We prioritize hiring individuals with outstanding potential and positioning them for success, leading to rapid career advancement.
• Competitive Compensation and Equity: Attractive salaries (e.g., £85,797 in London, €66,065 elsewhere in Europe for early-career roles) with potential for significant increases based on experience and impact. Opportunity to receive pay in company equity at a discount.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Flexible hours, remote work options, extensive learning and training support, top-tier health insurance, relocation assistance, generous parental support, and an annual company retreat.
• Tax Benefits: Potential 50% tax reduction for those relocating to Italy.

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

We focus on verifiable signals of excellence. Do not hesitate to apply if you believe you can excel, even if you feel you lack experience or have an