Product manager, summer intern

Bending Spoons; Milano; On-site; EUR 66,000 - 108,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity at discount

Competitive pay

Job summary

Bending Spoons is offering an internship for outstanding students, running from June to September 2027 in Milan, with possible offices in London, Madrid, or Warsaw. You’ll own real work that reaches customers and learn rapidly in a fast-paced, highly capable environment.

You’ll join small, autonomous teams that combine AI, data, and user research to rapidly improve products. The role emphasizes problem solving, ownership, and collaboration across disciplines.

Qualifications

• Strong reasoning: solve problems from first principles and structure ideas clearly.
• Ambition and initiative with ownership of work.
• Collaborative mindset and willingness to help teammates.
• Fluent English communication in reading, writing and speaking.

Responsibilities

• Investigate product, business model, and growth drivers using AI, data, and user research.
• Innovate by combining user insights with market signals to define high-impact initiatives.
• Test ideas through rigorous experiments with real users and cross-functional partners.
• Execute by turning ideas into features, prioritizing ruthlessly and coordinating teams.
• Iterate using results to continuously improve the product.

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.

In pursuit of this objective, we acquire and improve digital businesses, not to sell on, but to own and operate for the long term. The transformations we make are often deep—designed to speed up innovation, benefit customers, and strengthen business performance. Here, hierarchy is minimal and teams are small and talent-dense. We operate established products with the ambition, agility, and urgency of a startup. Across the company, we integrate AI deeply into how we work so that human judgment and machine intelligence reinforce each other.

This internship for outstanding students runs from June to September 2027 in one of our offices in Milan, London, Madrid, or Warsaw. You’ll own real work that reaches customers and learn at a rate that’s hard to match elsewhere.

A few examples of your responsibilities

• Investigate. Build a deep understanding of your product, its business model, and the drivers behind its growth. Use AI, data, and user research to quickly uncover meaningful opportunities and challenge assumptions.
• Innovate. Combine user insights, market signals, and emerging technologies to identify high-impact initiatives and features. Use modern tools, first-principles reasoning, and your creative insights to explore solution spaces quickly and sharpen product thinking.
• Test. Design and run rigorous experiments with real users, partnering closely with designers, engineers, and analysts to bring ideas to life and iterate quickly based on results.
• Execute. Turn ideas into impactful features. Prioritize ruthlessly, using data to focus on what truly moves the needle. Own the development process end-to-end, coordinating designers, engineers, and other teammates to build solutions that address users’ most important needs.
• Iterate. Use experimentation and product metrics to understand what works and what doesn’t. Treat every project as a learning loop, using insights from past work to improve the product continuously.

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 company equity at a discount. Typical annual salary offers range from £85,797 to £151,436 in London and from €66,065 to €107,837 elsewhere in Europe. The lower end of these ranges applies to candidates with little or no relevant experience, while exceptionally experienced candidates may receive offers of up to £316,052 in London or €240,330 elsewhere in Europe. Candidates offered a permanent contract may choose to receive part of their compensation in discounted company equity.

Commitment & contract

Internship. Full-time.

Location

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

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.

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.