Team assistant

Bending Spoons; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Remote work

Learning budget

Health insurance

Relocation package

Parental support

Annual retreat

Equity at discount

Job summary

Bending Spoons in London seeks a talented, driven, and collaborative individual for a hands-on role with broad responsibilities. You may prepare investor materials, manage vendor relationships, plan offsite activities, or tackle cross-border logistics challenges, depending on the team you support.

The role emphasizes problem-solving from first principles, initiative, and strong English communication. You’ll join a fast-moving, high-growth environment with generous learning and relocation support.

Qualifications

• Good reasoning and problem-solving using first principles.
• Ambition and initiative with a strong sense of responsibility.
• Collaborative and supportive team player who adds value.
• Excellent English reading, writing and speaking skills.

Responsibilities

• Prepare materials for investor meetings and cross-functional reviews.
• Manage external communications with candidates, partners, vendors, and clients.
• Leverage AI and automation to speed up recurring workflows and suggest improvements.
• Work with a business unit to learn its rhythms, priorities, and stakeholders.

Skills

Reasoning ability

Drive

Team spirit

Proficiency in English

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. Across the company, we integrate AI deeply into how we operate so that human judgment and machine intelligence reinforce each other. 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.

This is a hands-on role with real breadth. Depending on the team you support, your day could look like preparing materials for an investor meeting, managing vendor relationships, planning an offsite, or untangling a cross-border logistics challenge.

A few examples of your responsibilities

• Support work that spans functions, geographies, and challenges that don't always have a playbook.
• Handle communications with external stakeholders, be they candidates, partners, vendors, or clients, with speed, clarity, and good judgment about what deserves attention.
• Leverage AI and automation tools to make recurring workflows faster, more accurate, and more scalable, and proactively suggest improvements when you spot them.
• Work side by side with a specific business unit, learning its rhythms, priorities, and stakeholders, and becoming the person the team relies on to keep everything moving.

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.
• 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.
• Competitive pay and access to company equity at a discount. Typically, we offer candidates with limited experience an annual salary of £41,255 in London and €39,892 elsewhere in Europe. Those with highly relevant experience typically receive between £56,345 and £85,797 in London and between €54,346 and €82,557 elsewhere in Europe. Candidates offered a permanent contract may choose to receive part of their compensation in discounted company equity.

Commitment & contract

Permanent or fixed-term. Full-time.

Location

Milan (Italy), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), London (UK).

The selection process

In our screening process, we prioritize verifiable signals of excellence, regardless of seniority. There are no preferential paths beyond what your application demonstrates, and we evaluate every candidate through the same process.

Some people hold back because they feel they lack experience or have an "imperfect" CV. If you like the role and believe you could excel over time, don't self-reject.

All applications go through our careers page, which is the only way to be considered. If you pass our screening, you'll be asked to complete one or more tests. They are challenging, may involve unfamiliar problems, and can take several hours. To learn more about what to expect throughout the selection process, you can find additional information here.

We set the bar high and won't extend an offer until we're confident we've found the right candidate. This is why a job may remain open for months or be reposted several times.

We consider all applicants for employment and provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities—please let us know through this form.

Before you apply

If you've applied before but didn't receive an offer, we recommend waiting at least one year before applying again.

Bending Spoons is a demanding environment. We're extremely ambitious and we hold ourselves and one another to a high standard. While this tends to lead to extraordinary learning, achievement, and career growth, it also requires significant commitment.

To help you ramp up quickly and set yourself up for success, we expect you to spend most days in our Milan office during your first few months with us, regardless of your long-term work location. It's the best way to rapidly absorb our company culture and build trust with your new teammates. We'll support you with generous travel and accommodation assistance. After that, you're welcome to work from one of our offices, or remotely from approved countries - depending on what we agree at the offer stage.

If the role speaks to you and you're excited to give your best, we'd love to hear from you.