Junior UX/UI Designer

About Meetup and Bending Spoons

Meetup is a community-building platform used by millions globally. Now part of Bending Spoons, it contributes to a portfolio of innovative digital businesses. This role offers the chance to work on Meetup or other Bending Spoons products, within a high-performing, collaborative environment. Bending Spoons aims to be an exceptional company, serving a vast customer base, fostering employee growth, operating with high effectiveness and efficiency, and creating significant value for shareholders ethically. They achieve this by acquiring and improving digital businesses for long-term operation, implementing deep transformations to enhance innovation, customer benefits, and business performance. The company features minimal hierarchy and talent-dense teams, operating with startup agility and integrating AI to augment human judgment. Working at Bending Spoons promises exceptional learning, impact, and career progression for driven individuals.

Responsibilities

• Shape high-leverage product experiences.
• Design exceptional UI and UX, from concept to delivery, using advanced tools to explore directions, increase speed, and improve quality, ensuring intuitive, effective, and delightful experiences.
• Utilize AI tools (LLMs, Cursor, Claude Code) to clarify intent, draft specs, identify risks, and generate interactive prototypes and production-ready frontend code.
• Collaborate with PMs and engineers from the outset, defining UX requirements early, supporting through QA and release, and making engineering-aware design decisions.
• Validate designs through direct customer interaction, quick tests, and performance tracking (funnels, retention, adoption) to inform future iterations.
• Identify high-leverage product improvements from the backlog, align stakeholders, and deliver solutions rapidly.

What We Look For

• Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve complex problems using first principles, structured thinking, and resistance to bias. Attention to detail is crucial.
• Drive: Extreme ambition, initiative, effort, and tenacity, with a strong sense of responsibility and a commitment to high standards.
• Team Spirit: Generosity, support for the best ideas, willingness to assist teammates, and transparency.
• Proficiency in English: Strong reading, writing, and speaking skills.

What We Offer

• Talented Teams: Work in small, autonomous, result-oriented teams with bright professionals.
• Growth Opportunities: Exceptional potential for career advancement, with opportunities to lead significant projects early on.
• Competitive Compensation: Competitive pay and equity. Salaries vary by location and experience, with potential for compensation beyond usual ranges for exceptional candidates. Includes options for discounted company equity and tax benefits in Italy.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Flexible hours, remote working, unlimited learning and training support, top-tier health insurance, relocation assistance, generous parental support, and annual retreats.

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

• Screening prioritizes verifiable signals of excellence over traditional experience. Candidates are encouraged not to self-reject.
• The process includes challenging tests that may take several hours and involve unfamiliar problems.
• Offers are extended only upon finding the right candidate, meaning roles may remain open or be reposted.
• Reasonable accommodations are provided for individuals with disabilities.

Before You Apply

• If you've applied before without an offer, wait at least one year before reapplying.
• Bending Spoons is a demanding environment requiring significant commitment, but offering extraordinary learning and growth.
• New hires are recommended to spend their first few months in the Milan office to quickly absorb company culture and build team trust, with relocation support provided.
• Post-initial period, work can be from Milan, London offices, or approved remote locations.

Key skills/competency

• UX Design
• UI Design
• Product Design
• Prototyping
• User Research
• Figma
• AI Tools
• Frontend Development
• Collaboration
• Problem Solving