Office of the CEO

About

At Bending Spoons, we're striving to build one of the all-time great companies. We acquire and improve digital businesses to own and operate long term, integrating AI deeply to reinforce human judgment. We offer an opportunity to learn, impact, and progress your career at an exceptionally high rate.

Role overview

This role suits someone with exceptional analytical rigor and strong business judgment, ideally with finance backgrounds like investment banking, private equity, consulting, or corporate finance. After 6–12 months training in finance, product, or talent management, you may work directly with the CEO or another executive on high-priority initiatives or shift to another role depending on your strengths and the company's needs. Recent graduates and early-career professionals are encouraged to apply.

A few examples of your responsibilities

• Drive high-priority company initiatives: ownership of complex strategic and operational projects, coordinating across functions.
• Support financial planning and business performance: budgeting, forecasting, business reviews, and performance analyses.
• Increase organizational effectiveness: identify inefficiencies and design scalable systems and workflows.
• Leverage AI and automation to reduce manual work, improve decisions, and boost operational effectiveness.

What we look for

• Reasoning ability: solve complex problems with first-principles thinking, sharp structure, and attention to key details.
• Financial rigor: strong technical skills in finance, modeling, business performance, datasets, and budgeting trade-offs.
• Drive: ambitious, highly responsible, with strong initiative, effort, and tenacity.
• Team spirit: generosity, support of the best ideas, reliability, honesty, transparency.
• Proficiency in English: skilled in reading, writing, and speaking.

What we offer

• Talented, entrepreneurial teams with small, autonomous groups alongside experts.
• An exceptional growth opportunity placing individuals in key roles early in their careers.
• Excellent benefits including flexible hours, remote work, unlimited learning and training backing, premium health insurance, relocation support, generous parental support, and annual retreats.
• Competitive pay and equity access; typical starting salaries about £85,797 in London and €66,065 elsewhere in Europe, with higher ranges for experienced candidates, and potential tax benefits if relocating to Italy.

Commitment & contract

Permanent or fixed-term. Full-time.

Location

Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland) or remote in selected countries, with a recommendation to spend initial months in Milan office.