People & Business Graduate Program

About Bending Spoons

Bending Spoons is committed to building an exceptional company that serves a vast customer base, fosters team member growth, operates with unparalleled effectiveness and efficiency, and generates extraordinary value for shareowners, all while upholding high ethical standards.

Their strategy involves acquiring digital businesses with untapped potential and maximizing their success by leveraging Bending Spoons' comprehensive platform, which includes expertise, technologies, data, brand, talent, and company culture. The proceeds are then reinvested to strengthen the platform and acquire new ventures, combining an investor’s focus on capital allocation with a hands-on operational approach.

For talented, driven, and collaborative individuals, Bending Spoons offers an exceptional opportunity for rapid learning, significant impact, and accelerated career progression.

About the People & Business Graduate Program

As part of the People & Business Graduate Program, you will play a crucial role in ensuring smooth administrative and people-centric operations across Bending Spoons. This program is designed to provide comprehensive exposure and development in various aspects of human resources and business administration within a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide smooth onboarding and offboarding processes, ensuring outstanding experiences and handling administrative updates like 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, covering monitoring, negotiation, providing relevant information, and supporting international employees with visas and documentation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to develop and implement exceptional employee welfare and benefits initiatives.
• Support new office launches by coordinating administrative workstreams, conducting due diligence on local requirements, and establishing administrative blueprints.
• Stay updated with international workplace laws and regulations, ensuring compliance and effective enforcement across organizations, often in collaboration with external consultants.

What Bending Spoons Looks For

Bending Spoons seeks individuals with strong foundational qualities:

• Reasoning ability: The capacity to solve complex problems from first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist biases, and meticulously attend to details.
• Drive: Extreme ambition, matched by initiative, effort, and tenacity. A deep sense of responsibility and a commitment to continuously raise personal standards.
• Team spirit: A generous, collaborative approach, supporting the best ideas, willingness to contribute hands-on, and embodying reliability, honesty, and transparency.
• Proficiency in English: Excellent reading, writing, and speaking skills in English.

What Bending Spoons Offers

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams: Work in small, results-oriented, autonomous teams with bright individuals.
• Exceptional opportunity for growth: Rapid career progression and the chance to lead significant projects, even early in your career.
• Competitive pay and access to equity: Annual salary of approximately £56,345 in London or €54,346 elsewhere in Europe for early career, with potential for higher compensation based on experience and impact. Opportunity to receive company equity at a discounted price.
• Comprehensive benefits: Flexible hours, remote working options, unlimited learning and training support, top-tier health insurance, generous relocation package, parental support, and an annual company retreat.

Location & Work Arrangement

This role offers flexibility with locations in Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), or remote work in selected countries. Candidates are highly encouraged to spend their first few months at the Milan office for cultural immersion and team building, with generous travel and accommodation assistance provided.

Selection Process

Bending Spoons prioritizes verifiable signals of excellence. The process involves screening, followed by challenging tests that may include unfamiliar problems and take several hours. The bar is set high to ensure the right candidate is found.

Key skills/competency

• HR Administration
• Onboarding & Offboarding
• Contract Management
• Visa Support
• Employee Benefits
• International Law & Compliance
• Project Coordination
• Problem-Solving
• Team Collaboration
• Attention to Detail