Growth manager, summer intern

This position is at Bending Spoons

The selection process will be entirely managed by Bending Spoons.

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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. ### 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. ### Requirements * **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.

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