People administration manager

About Bending Spoons

At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. Our goal is to serve a huge number of customers, foster full potential in our team members, and operate with unparalleled effectiveness and efficiency. We aim to create extraordinary value for shareowners while adhering to high ethical standards.

Our strategy involves acquiring digital businesses with untapped potential and maximizing their success by leveraging our powerful platform—comprising our expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and company culture. We then reinvest proceeds to strengthen our platform and acquire new businesses, combining an investor’s attention to capital allocation with an operator's hands-on approach.

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

The Role: People administration manager

As a People administration manager, you will play a crucial role in ensuring smooth and compliant administrative operations across Bending Spoons. You will be instrumental in supporting our rapidly growing and evolving organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide smooth onboarding and offboarding processes, delivering outstanding experiences while handling administrative updates such as contract changes, system updates, and document processing.
• Steer the people side of extraordinary administrative operations including new business acquisitions, internal reorganizations, legal restructuring, and share option plans.
• Manage job-offer processes end-to-end, including monitoring and negotiation, providing relevant information, and supporting international employees with visas and other required documentation.
• Work cross-functionally to develop and implement exceptional employee welfare and benefits initiatives.
• Support new office launches by coordinating the administrative workstream, conducting due diligence on local requirements, and building and maintaining the administrative blueprint.
• Stay up to date with workplace international laws and regulations, ensuring compliance and effective enforcement across our organizations, also in collaboration with external consultants.

What We Look For

Bending Spoons seeks individuals who possess:

• Reasoning ability: The capacity to solve complex problems from first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist biases, and meticulously manage important details.
• Drive: Extreme ambition matched by initiative, effort, and tenacity, coupled with a deep sense of responsibility and a high, continuously rising bar for performance.
• Team spirit: A generous, collaborative mindset, supporting the best ideas, willingness to assist the team, and demonstrating reliability, honesty, and transparency.
• Proficiency in English: Excellent reading, writing, and speaking skills in English.

What We Offer

We provide a dynamic and rewarding environment:

• Talented Teams: Work in small, result-oriented, autonomous teams alongside some of the brightest people in your field.
• Exceptional Growth Opportunities: A priority on placing individuals of outstanding potential in ideal positions to thrive, with Spooners in their 20s leading products worth hundreds of millions.
• Competitive Compensation & Equity: Competitive annual salary ranging from £68,579 to £151,436 in London and €66,065 to €145,430 elsewhere in Europe for experienced candidates. Access to company equity at a discounted price for permanent contract holders, participating in value creation.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Flexible hours, remote working options, unlimited backing for learning and training, top-tier health insurance, a rich relocation package, generous parental support, and an annual company retreat. New hires are encouraged to spend initial months in Milan with travel/accommodation assistance.

Location & Work Arrangement

This role can be based in Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), or remote in selected countries. This is a permanent or fixed-term, full-time position.

The Selection Process

Our screening prioritizes verifiable signals of excellence. Don’t self-reject if you feel you lack experience. If selected, you'll complete challenging tests. We maintain a high bar, and roles may remain open for months until the right candidate is found.

Key skills/competency

• HR Administration
• Onboarding/Offboarding
• Employee Relations
• International Labor Law
• Benefits Administration
• HR Compliance
• Workforce Planning
• Visa & Immigration Support
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• HR Operations