Product Lead

Bending Spoons; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 83,997 - 149,636; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Remote working

Unlimited learning and training support

Top-tier health insurance

Rich relocation package

Generous parental support

Yearly retreat to stunning locations

Access to company equity

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that values ambition and collaboration, where you'll have the chance to grow rapidly in your career. This dynamic role involves investigating product performance, innovating user-driven features, and executing impactful solutions in a demanding yet rewarding environment. With competitive pay and a focus on personal development, you'll work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry, contributing to projects that make a significant impact. If you're ready to embrace challenges and thrive in a fast-paced setting, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Strong reasoning ability to solve complex problems and think from first principles.
• High ambition and responsibility for work, with a focus on achieving results.

Responsibilities

• Investigate product growth and user needs through data analysis.
• Innovate features based on market trends and user requests.
• Execute high-impact features by prioritizing effectively.

Skills

Problem Solving

Team Collaboration

Drive and Ambition

English Proficiency

Job description

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.

To achieve this objective, we execute the following strategy: We acquire a digital business with untapped potential and make it as successful as we can by leveraging our platform—which comprises our expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and company culture. Then, we invest the proceeds into making our platform more powerful, and into acquiring new businesses. Thus, our strategy sees us combine an investor’s attention to capital allocation with the hands-on approach of an operator.

For a talented, driven, and collaborative individual, working at Bending Spoons is an opportunity to learn, make an impact, and progress their career at an exceptionally high rate. That’s our promise to such a candidate.

A few examples of your 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.

What we look for

• 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.

What we offer

• 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. Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And if you’ve got what it takes, you’ll soon be playing an essential role in major projects, too.
• Competitive pay and access to equity in the company. Typically, we offer an individual at the start of their career a salary of £83,997 in the UK and €80,457 elsewhere. If they possess a few years of relevant experience, the salary on offer tends to be between £110,389 and £149,636 in the UK, and €105,737 and €143,330 elsewhere. Pay grows rapidly as you accumulate experience and translate it into greater impact. You can also receive some of your pay in company equity at a discounted price, thus participating in the value creation we achieve together. If relocating to Italy, you may enjoy a 50% tax cut.
• All. These. Benefits. 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. We help each Spooner set up the conditions to do their best work.

Before you apply

Bending Spoons is a demanding environment: We’re extremely ambitious and we ask a lot of ourselves and one another. While this tends to lead to fantastic learning, achievements, and career growth, it also requires a significant commitment. So if you like the role and are ready to give your very best, don’t hesitate to apply.

The selection process

If you pass our screening, we’ll ask you to take on a few tests that assess how you approach unfamiliar problems. If you’re successful with those, we’ll invite you to a series of interviews.