Product Manager
Overview
At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. A company that serves a huge number of customers. A company where team members grow to their full potential. A company that functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency. A company that creates value for shareowners at an extraordinary rate. And a company that does so while adhering to high ethical standards.
Job Description
Bending Spoons is a company that acquires digital businesses with untapped potential and makes them successful by leveraging their platform, which includes expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and company culture. They invest proceeds into making their platform more powerful and acquiring new businesses.
Responsibilities
- - Investigate. Learn everything you can about your product, its business model, and what drives its growth. Once you know the numbers inside out, survey your users and discover what they need. Then challenge the status quo to exceed their expectations.
- - Innovate. Tap into user requests, market trends, and emerging technologies. Think from first principles, and assess which efforts have the highest potential to unlock significant value. Leverage your creative insights to design cutting-edge features and products.
- - Execute. Translate your ideas into high-impact features. Prioritize ruthlessly, analyzing the data to make sure you focus only on what truly moves the needle. Push product designers, engineers, and other team members to do the same.
- - Iterate. Use A/B testing and performance metrics to understand what worked and what didn’t. Treat every project as a learning opportunity. Use past mistakes to fuel your future success.
Required Skills
- - Reasoning ability. Given the necessary knowledge, you can solve complex problems. You think from first principles, and structure your ideas sharply. You resist the influence of biases. You identify and take care of the details that matter.
- - Drive. You’re extremely ambitious in everything you do—and your initiative, effort, and tenacity match the intensity of your ambition. You feel deeply responsible for your work. You hold yourself to a high—and rising—bar.
- - Team spirit. You give generously and without the expectation of receiving in return. You support the best idea, not your idea. You're always happy to get your hands dirty to help your team. You’re reliable, honest, and transparent.
- - Proficiency in English. You read, write, and speak proficiently in English.
Benefits
- - Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. You’ll work in small, result-oriented, autonomous teams alongside some of the brightest people in your field.
- - An exceptional opportunity for growth. We go to great lengths to hire individuals of outstanding potential—then, our priority is to put them in the ideal position to thrive.
- - Competitive pay and access to equity in the company. Typically, we offer an individual at the start of their career a salary of €52,246. If they possess a few years of relevant experience, the salary on offer tends to be between €63,965 and €143,330. Pay grows rapidly as you accumulate experience and translate it into greater impact.
- - Flexible hours, remote working, unlimited backing for learning and training, top-of-the-market health insurance, a rich relocation package, generous parental support, and a yearly retreat to a stunning location.
About the company
Bending Spoons S.p.A. is an Italian technology company, founded in 2013 and based in Milan. The company is known primarily for mobile applications that it develops or acquires