UX/UI designer

About Bending Spoons

At Bending Spoons, we are dedicated to building a truly exceptional company. Our goal is to serve a vast customer base, foster the full potential of our team members, operate with unmatched effectiveness and efficiency, and deliver extraordinary value to our shareowners, all while upholding the highest ethical standards.

Our strategy involves acquiring digital businesses with untapped potential and maximizing their success by leveraging our powerful platform. This platform encompasses our collective expertise, advanced technologies, rich data, established brand, talented individuals, and unique company culture. The proceeds are then reinvested to strengthen our platform and acquire new ventures. This approach combines an investor's focus on capital allocation with a hands-on operator's perspective.

For ambitious, skilled, and collaborative individuals, Bending Spoons offers an unparalleled opportunity for rapid learning, significant impact, and accelerated career progression. This is our firm promise to such candidates.

A Few Examples of Your Responsibilities

• Help shape outstanding user experiences and impact the success of our products by creating flawless UI and UX designs, from conceptualization to delivery. You’ll take a human-first approach to designing products, ensuring they delight users by being as effective as they are aesthetically pleasing.
• Make use of prototyping tools to ensure your designs are intuitive and to explore new, innovative ways of designing interactions.
• Work closely with product managers and software engineers to propose new features and improve the quality of both mobile and desktop apps.
• Focus on user testing and research to ensure our customers are always at the core of our product designs.
• Find, together with engineers, the most efficient trade-off between high-value solutions for users and the complexity of implementation.
• Leverage usage data to evaluate the impact of your designs, and apply your learnings to the next iterations.

What We Look For

• 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.

What We Offer

You’ll work in small, result-oriented, autonomous teams alongside some of the brightest people in your field, providing an exceptional opportunity for growth. We prioritize putting talented individuals in positions to thrive, with Spooners in their 20s often leading products worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

We offer competitive pay and access to company equity. For experienced candidates, salaries range from £112,189 to £250,512 in London, and €107,837 to €188,848 elsewhere in Europe, varying by location and impact. Compensation grows rapidly with experience and contribution, with exceptional performers receiving extended ranges. Permanent contract holders can receive company equity at a discounted price. Relocating to Italy may also offer a 50% tax cut.

Our comprehensive benefits include flexible hours, remote working options, unlimited backing for learning and training, top-tier health insurance, a rich relocation package, generous parental support, and a yearly retreat to a stunning location. We ensure each Spooner has the ideal conditions to perform their best work.

Commitment & Contract

This is a permanent or fixed-term, full-time position.

Location

The role can be based in Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), or remotely in selected countries. We recommend spending your first few months working from our Milan office to quickly absorb our culture and build team trust, with generous travel and accommodation assistance provided.

The Selection Process

Our screening prioritizes verifiable signals of excellence over seniority. Don’t hesitate to apply if you believe you can excel, even if you feel you lack experience. If you pass screening, you’ll complete challenging tests that may involve unfamiliar problems and take several hours. We maintain a high bar, and offers are only extended when we are confident in finding the right candidate, which may keep a job open for months.

Before You Apply

If you’ve applied previously without an offer, we advise waiting at least one year before reapplying. Bending Spoons is a demanding, ambitious environment that requires significant commitment, but offers extraordinary learning and career growth. Apply now if you're excited to give your best!

Key skills/competency

• User Experience (UX)
• User Interface (UI)
• Prototyping
• User Research
• Mobile Design
• Desktop Apps
• Product Design
• Data-driven Design
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Problem Solving