Talent Strategy Associate

Your mission: Help put together the most talent-intensive team on the planet.

Since launching in 2013, Bending Spoons has served around half a billion people across the globe through our suite of cutting-edge products. Still, we’ve only just crossed the starting line on our mission to make an enduring positive impact on our customers, on our fellow Spooners, and on society at large.

At the heart of our success are the bright people who make up the Spooniverse. Here, ‌talent density is continuously rising—thanks to our uncompromising focus on finding the world's most promising potential new Spooners. It's a focus so crucial to everything we do, even our CEO is on the talent assessment team.

Now, more than ever, it’s important that we keep raising the bar on our hiring expectations and on our approach to talent acquisition. Even as corporate decision-making becomes increasingly science-based, the most critical decisions relating to people are still too often made arbitrarily. And as companies grow, they tend to lower their standards in a rush to fill positions. We’re determined to do things differently.

So we’re looking for someone as committed as we are to putting together the most talent-intensive team on the planet. If you’re extremely analytical and creative, if you have high standards and steadfast perseverance, we’d love to hear from you.

A few examples of your responsibilities

• Drive impact. Reach, assess, and select the most promising talents for consideration at a talent-driven company.

• Do meaningful work. With technology and AI automating menial tasks, you’ll focus on the areas where human reasoning, awareness, and consideration are essential and cannot be replaced.

• Own the decisions. From the start of a candidate’s journey to when they’re presented to the hiring committee, determine the best next step at every point. Work with extreme independence and trust in managing the positions you’re filling.

• Defy complacency. Good enough is never good enough here. The quality of your decisions can help skyrocket the company to never-before-reached levels of success.

• Stand out. Help set a new standard for impactful employer brand management and deliver an astonishingly positive candidate experience.

What we look for

• Drive. You’re energetic and hard-working, and you persevere through adversity until the job is done—and done impeccably. You’re massively into getting results, and always aim for excellence in what you do.

• Reasoning and depth of learning. You’re structured and creative enough to solve most challenging problems independently, given the necessary knowledge. You learn new concepts and skills rapidly, and love to nerd out and go in-depth.

• Accuracy and precision. Your attention to detail is spot-on, and you’re painstakingly accurate.

• Tenacity. Once you have a goal, there’s no stopping you! Failure doesn’t discourage you—after every stumble, you get right back up and try again.

• Humility. You’re down to earth, eager to listen to feedback and constructive criticism, and ready to support your team with whatever it needs to succeed.

• Proficiency in English. You read, write, and speak proficiently in English.

• Common sense. Your judgment and intuition are sound and well grounded in reality.

• Pragmatism. Far from being too academic or obsessive in your perfectionism, you understand that speed is often as important as quality when getting things done in a competitive world.

What we offer

• Real impact. We automate most menial tasks, freeing you up to focus your expertise where it can make the biggest impact.

• Unique career opportunity. By joining a fast-growing company on a mission to become one of the world's greatest, it’s an unparalleled opportunity to turbocharge your learning and career prospects.

• Flexibility and trust. From day one, you’ll be one of the team and fully trusted. No micromanagement or clipping your wings—just the freedom and responsibility to do great work.

• Talented, knowledgeable colleagues. Learn from (and teach) some of the brightest and most skilled people you’ll ever meet. Your talent is going to blossom here.

• People who lift up one another. We hire for talent and leave the ego at the door. You'll find a group of truly talented Spooners who are eager to teach their secrets and to learn. Reciprocal support and respect is everything—you’re unlikely to ever encounter a more harmonious crew.

• Flexible schedule. Our regular hours are 9-6 GMT+1, with remote work allowed within GMT-2 to GMT+3 time zones.

• Continuous education. Spooners get unlimited backing for learning investments, including Italian or English lessons and things like courses, conferences, and books. There’s no permission or approval process—you’re fully trusted to use the company’s resources efficiently.

• Remote working. Spend as much or as little time in our Milan office as you choose. Many Spooners like to change up their environment and get out of the city whenever the mood strikes. You’ve always got the freedom to decide where today’s office is.

• Competitive salary and stock options. Our compensation packages are designed to attract and retain the best talent in the industry. The entry-level compensation package for this position includes a salary of €52,246 and a welfare bonus of €1,200. Compensation can grow rapidly as the individual accumulates experience and translates it into greater and greater impact. The individual can choose to receive part of their pay in equity at a discounted value, rather than in cash.

Before you apply

Thanks for taking the time to read this far. We’d be delighted if you decide to apply, but ask that you first consider the following:

Bending Spoons is an extremely demanding environment. We’re highly ambitious and we ask a lot of ourselves and our teammates, so you’re likely to work harder here than at most companies, and to regularly push yourself beyond your comfort zone. While this tends to drive tremendous learning and lead to fantastic achievements, it can also be stressful.

We’re uncompromising on our standard of excellence. The vast majority of Spooners stay for years and have amazing careers here. However, it can also happen that an individual doesn’t contribute at the rate we look for. In such cases, we support the Spooner in their efforts to make the necessary improvements, but will counsel them to leave if they don’t manage to do so.

We're proud of the company we've built, and many of us can't imagine working anywhere else. Still, we understand that a career at Bending Spoons isn't for everybody. We hope what you’ve read here helps you determine whether it might be the place for you. If you believe it is, then we encourage you to apply—and perhaps discover what you’re truly capable of!

The selection process

If you successfully pass through our screening process, we’ll invite you to take on a few tests that assess how you approach and solve unfamiliar problems. If you’re successful there, we’ll invite you to take part in some interviews. We welcome applications in English and Italian. Bending Spoons is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We consider for employment all applicants and we provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities, which can be requested at accommodations-ext@bendingspoons.com. Studies suggest that women tend not to apply for a job if their CV isn’t a perfect fit. Here, we look for talent and potential—not just experience and expertise. So if you like the role and think you could be awesome at it, go ahead and apply.