Junior UX/UI Designer

About Meetup and Bending Spoons

Meetup is a community-building platform used by millions to discover events and connect with others. Now part of Bending Spoons, it's a key player in a portfolio of innovative digital businesses. Joining Meetup means becoming part of the wider Bending Spoons team, potentially contributing to other leading products. You'll work in a high-performing, collaborative environment focused on innovation and operational excellence. Bending Spoons aims to be one of the all-time great companies, serving a vast customer base and fostering team member growth. They focus on acquiring and operating digital businesses for the long term, driving deep transformations to enhance customer value and business performance. The company operates with minimal hierarchy, small, talent-dense teams, and integrates AI to augment human judgment. Working at Bending Spoons offers talented, driven individuals an opportunity to learn, make an impact, and accelerate their careers.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape high-leverage product experiences by designing intuitive, effective, and delightful UI and UX from concept to delivery.
• Utilize AI tools to clarify intent, draft specifications, and identify risks before commencing design work.
• Prototype and build interactive experiences, leveraging AI tools and turning concepts into production-ready frontend code.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and engineers from inception through release, defining UX requirements and making engineering-aware design decisions.
• Validate designs through direct customer interaction, quick tests, and data analysis (funnels, retention, adoption) to iterate and improve.
• Identify high-leverage opportunities in the product backlog that can unlock business value, aligning stakeholders and delivering rapidly.

What We Look For

• Reasoning ability: Capacity to solve complex problems, think from first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist biases, and focus on critical details.
• Drive: Extreme ambition, initiative, effort, and tenacity, coupled with a strong sense of responsibility and a commitment to a high and rising standard.
• Team spirit: Generosity, support for the best ideas over personal ideas, willingness to help the team, reliability, honesty, and transparency.
• Proficiency in English: Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

What We Offer

• Talented Teams: Work in small, autonomous, result-oriented teams with exceptionally bright individuals.
• Growth Opportunity: Significant career progression, with opportunities to lead products and play essential roles in major projects early on.
• Competitive Compensation: Competitive pay, with the potential for equity in the company at a discounted price. Salary ranges provided for different experience levels and locations (e.g., £85,797 in London for early career).
• Benefits: Flexible hours, remote working, unlimited learning and training support, top-tier health insurance, relocation package, generous parental support, and an annual retreat.
• Tax Benefits: Potential 50% tax cut for those relocating to Italy.

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

Meetup prioritizes verifiable signals of excellence. They encourage individuals to apply even if they feel they lack experience. The process includes challenging tests that may take several hours. Offers are extended only upon confidence in finding the right candidate.

Before You Apply

Applicants who previously applied without success are advised to wait at least one year before reapplying. Bending Spoons is a demanding environment requiring significant commitment, but it offers extraordinary learning and growth. It is recommended to spend the first few months in the Milan office to quickly absorb the company culture and build team trust, with support for travel and accommodation. Long-term work can be from offices in Milan or London, or remotely from approved countries. Key skills/competency Junior UX/UI Designer, Product Design, UI Design, UX Design, Prototyping, AI Tools, Customer Research, Design Systems, Figma, User Testing