Business analyst

Business analyst Overview

Join Bending Spoons as a Business Analyst and become part of a company dedicated to building one of the world’s leading digital organizations. With a mission to serve millions of customers, foster team member growth, and operate with startup agility, Bending Spoons emphasizes innovation, efficiency, and high ethical standards. The company acquires and manages digital businesses for long-term ownership, making deep transformations to accelerate innovation, enhance customer value, and improve business performance. The organizational culture is minimal hierarchy, small and talented teams, and a strong integration of AI to augment human judgment. Working here offers an exceptional chance for talented, driven, and collaborative individuals to learn rapidly, make impactful contributions, and advance their careers at an extraordinary pace.

Key Responsibilities

• Gain a thorough understanding of the company’s products, users, business models, competitive landscape, and financial metrics to guide strategic decisions.
• Utilize AI, data analysis, and research to identify key business drivers, diagnose challenges, and discover growth opportunities for products and services.
• Convert insights into concrete hypotheses and ideas for new features, growth initiatives, monetization strategies, and operational improvements, focusing on those with the highest potential impact.
• Support the implementation of these initiatives by collaborating with engineering, design, and other teams, assisting in roadmap discussions with clients, and building strong business cases to bring ideas to life.
• Apply A/B testing, monitor key performance metrics, and conduct ongoing analysis to understand what strategies work best, scaling successful efforts and refining or discontinuing less effective ones to inform future cycles.

Candidate Profile

• Strong reasoning skills, capable of solving complex problems by applying first principles thinking and paying attention to critical details.
• Highly ambitious, demonstrating initiative, effort, and persistence that align with personal and team goals, with a strong sense of responsibility for work quality.
• Excellent team spirit, characterized by generosity, supportiveness, and a focus on the best ideas rather than personal recognition, along with reliability, honesty, and transparency.
• Proficiency in English, including reading, writing, and speaking, to facilitate effective communication within the team and with stakeholders.

What We Offer

• The chance to work within small, autonomous, results-oriented teams alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry.
• Outstanding opportunities for career growth, with a focus on placing individuals in roles where they can excel and lead major projects, including products worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
• A comprehensive benefits package including flexible working hours, remote work options, unlimited access to learning and training resources, top-tier health insurance, a generous relocation package, parental support, and annual retreats to inspiring locations.
• Competitive compensation with salary ranges from approximately £85,797 to £151,436 in London and â?¬66,065 to â?¬107,837 elsewhere in Europe, depending on experience. Exceptional candidates may be offered up to £316,052 or â?¬240,330.
• Option for candidates with a permanent contract to receive part of their salary in discounted company equity.

Application and Selection Process

All applications are submitted exclusively through our careers page, where we evaluate every candidate based on verifiable signals of excellence, regardless of seniority. There are no shortcuts or preferential treatment based on experience or CV quality. If you believe you have the potential to succeed, even if your experience isn’t perfect, we encourage you to apply.

Candidates who pass the initial screening will be asked to complete one or more challenging assessments, which may involve unfamiliar problems and take several hours. For more details on the process, additional information is available on our website. We maintain high standards and only extend offers when confident we’ve found the right fit, which may result in roles remaining open for extended periods or being reposted.

Bending Spoons is committed to equal opportunity employment and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities upon request.

If you have previously applied and were not successful, we recommend waiting at least one year before reapplying. The company environment is demanding, requiring significant commitment and a willingness to work primarily from the Milan office during the initial months, with support for travel and accommodation. Afterward, remote or office-based work can be arranged based on mutual agreement.

If this role excites you and you’re ready to contribute your best, we look forward to your application. Apply now to join a dynamic, innovative team and make a meaningful impact.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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