Junior UX/UI designer

About Bending Spoons

At Bending Spoons, we are dedicated to building an exceptional company that serves a vast customer base, fosters immense professional growth for its team members, operates with unparalleled effectiveness and efficiency, generates extraordinary value for shareowners, and upholds high ethical standards. We achieve this by acquiring and improving digital businesses for long-term operation, implementing deep transformations to accelerate innovation, benefit customers, and enhance business performance. Our culture features minimal hierarchy and small, talent-dense teams, operating established products with startup agility and urgency. We deeply integrate AI to synergize human judgment and machine intelligence.

For a talented, driven, and collaborative individual, Bending Spoons offers an unparalleled opportunity to learn, make a significant impact, and advance your career at an exceptional pace.

Responsibilities of a Junior UX/UI Designer

• Shape high-leverage product experiences by designing exceptional UI and UX, from initial concepts to final delivery, utilizing the best tools to explore diverse directions, increase speed, and elevate quality standards.
• Ensure all user experiences are intuitive, effective, and delightful.
• Leverage AI tools, including LLMs, to clarify intent, draft specifications, and identify potential risks, edge cases, and initial approaches before engaging in design tools. Use AI-generated insights to rapidly align with your team and transition from ambiguity to a clear direction.
• Utilize AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code to transform rough concepts into interactive prototypes and generate production-ready frontend code, fluidly moving between coding and design tools like Figma to achieve optimal results.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineers from the outset, defining UX requirements early, staying involved through QA and release, and making engineering-conscious design decisions.
• Validate designs and measure their effectiveness through direct customer interaction, rapid testing, and analysis of key metrics such as funnels, retention, and adoption to inform future iterations.
• Identify the most impactful improvements from the product backlog, articulate their business value, gain stakeholder alignment, and execute rapidly to deliver results.

What We Look For

• Reasoning Ability: Capacity to solve complex problems with given knowledge, think from first principles, structure ideas logically, resist biases, and identify critical details.
• Drive: Exceptional ambition, initiative, effort, and tenacity, coupled with a profound sense of responsibility and a commitment to a continuously rising standard of work.
• Team Spirit: Generosity without expectation of return, support for the best ideas over personal ones, willingness to assist teammates, and adherence to principles of reliability, honesty, and transparency.
• English Proficiency: Professional-level reading, writing, and speaking skills in English.

What We Offer

• Talented Teams: Work within small, results-oriented, autonomous teams alongside leading professionals in your field.
• Growth Opportunities: An exceptional environment for career progression, with opportunities for individuals to lead significant projects and products even early in their careers.
• Competitive Compensation: Competitive pay, with potential access to equity. Salaries vary by location and impact, with specific ranges provided for early-career and experienced candidates in London and Europe. Exceptional performers may receive compensation beyond standard ranges.
• Equity: Opportunity to receive a portion of your pay in company equity at a discounted price for permanent contracts.
• Tax Benefits: Potential 50% tax reduction for those relocating to Italy.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Flexible hours, remote working options, extensive learning and training support, top-tier health insurance, relocation assistance, generous parental support, and an annual company retreat.

Commitment & Contract

• Permanent or fixed-term contract.
• Full-time employment.

Location

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

The Selection Process

We focus on verifiable indicators of excellence over traditional seniority. Do not hesitate to apply if you are enthusiastic about the role and confident in your potential for growth.

• Screening: Initial review focusing on merit.
• Tests: Challenging assessments that may cover unfamiliar problems and require several hours to complete.
• Offer: Extended only upon confidence in candidate suitability. Roles may remain open or be reposted if the right candidate is not found.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. Please use the designated form for such requests.

Before You Apply

If you have applied previously without an offer, we suggest reapplying after at least one year.

Bending Spoons is a high-demand environment requiring significant commitment due to our ambitious nature and high standards. This fosters extraordinary learning and growth but demands dedication.

To facilitate a quick and successful onboarding, we recommend spending your initial months at our Milan office, regardless of your long-term work location. This immersion helps in rapidly understanding our company culture and building team rapport. We provide comprehensive travel and accommodation support. Post-initial period, you may choose to work from our Milan or London offices, or remotely from approved countries, as agreed upon during the offer stage.

If this role excites you and you are ready to commit your best effort, we encourage you to apply.

Key skills/competency

• UX/UI Design
• Product Design
• Prototyping
• Figma
• AI Tools
• User Research
• Frontend Development
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Problem-Solving
• Agile Methodologies