Junior UX/UI Designer

About Bending Spoons

At Bending Spoons, we are building a great company that serves many customers, fosters team member growth, operates efficiently, creates extraordinary value, and upholds high ethical standards. We acquire and improve digital businesses for long-term operation, making deep transformations to drive innovation, benefit customers, and strengthen business performance. Our culture features minimal hierarchy, small talent-dense teams, and the agility of a startup operating established products. We integrate AI deeply to enhance human judgment and machine intelligence.

For talented, driven, and collaborative individuals, Bending Spoons offers exceptional learning, impact, and career progression opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Shape high-leverage product experiences.
• Design exceptional UI and UX, from concepts to delivery, using best tools to explore directions, move faster, and enhance quality. Ensure experiences are intuitive, effective, and delightful.
• Design with AI: Utilize AI agents for turning ideas into prototypes, integrating with design systems, iterating via natural language, and generating production-ready frontend code.
• Prototype to validate: Rapidly move between lo-fi exploration and production-realistic prototypes to test interactions and accelerate development.
• Co-create with PMs and engineers: Define UX requirements early, support through QA and release, and make engineering-aware design decisions.
• Measure and improve: Track funnels, retention, and adoption. Use qualitative and quantitative signals to assess design effectiveness and refine future iterations.
• Identify highest-leverage bets from the backlog: Pinpoint product improvements that unlock business value, align stakeholders, and deliver quickly.

What We Look For

• Reasoning ability: Solve complex problems with necessary knowledge, think from first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist biases, and identify crucial details.
• Drive: Possess extreme ambition, initiative, effort, and tenacity. Feel deep responsibility for work and maintain a high, rising standard.
• Team spirit: Give generously without expectation of return, support the best idea, help teammates, and be reliable, honest, and transparent.
• Proficiency in English: Read, write, and speak English proficiently.

What We Offer

• Talented Teams: Work in small, result-oriented, autonomous teams with bright individuals.
• Growth Opportunity: Exceptional potential for growth; Spooners in their 20s lead multi-million dollar products.
• Competitive Compensation: Competitive pay and equity. Salary examples: £85,797 annually in London for early career, €66,065 elsewhere in Europe. Experienced candidates may earn £112,189-£250,512 in London, €107,837-€188,848 elsewhere. Compensation varies by location and impact, growing with experience. Equity participation via discounted stock purchase is available. 50% tax cut in Italy for relocating employees.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Flexible hours, remote working options, unlimited learning and training support, top-tier health insurance, relocation package, generous parental support, and a yearly retreat.

Commitment & Contract

Permanent or fixed-term. Full-time.

Location

Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland) or remote in selected countries.

The Selection Process

We prioritize verifiable signals of excellence. Don't self-reject if you feel you lack experience or have an imperfect CV; if you believe you can excel, apply.

• Screening process to identify top talent.
• Challenging tests, potentially involving unfamiliar problems, may follow screening.
• Offers are extended only upon confidence in finding the right candidate; roles may remain open for extended periods.
• Reasonable accommodations are provided for individuals with disabilities.

Before You Apply

If you've applied before without an offer, wait at least one year. Bending Spoons is demanding, requiring significant commitment for extraordinary learning and growth.

We recommend starting at our Milan office for the first few months, regardless of long-term location, to rapidly absorb culture and build team trust. We offer travel and accommodation assistance. Post-initial period, options include Milan, London offices, or remote work in approved countries.

If the role excites you, apply now!

Key skills/competency

• Junior UX/UI Designer
• Product Experience Design
• User Interface (UI) Design
• User Experience (UX) Design
• Prototyping
• Design Systems
• AI in Design
• User Research
• Agile Development
• Frontend Development