UX/UI designer

At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. A company that serves a huge number of customers, where team members grow to their full potential, and functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency. We create value for shareholders at an extraordinary rate while adhering to high ethical standards.

In pursuit of this objective, we acquire and improve digital businesses, operating them for the long term. The transformations we make are often deep—designed to speed up innovation, benefit customers, and strengthen business performance. We build small, talent‐dense teams, operate with minimal hierarchy, and integrate AI deeply into our work so that human judgment and machine intelligence reinforce each other.

Responsibilities

• Shape high‐leverage product experiences. Design exceptional UI and UX—from early concepts to polished delivery—exploring directions, moving faster, and raising the quality bar. Ensure every experience is intuitive, effective, and delightful.
• Start with an LLM. Use AI tools to clarify intent, draft short specs, and surface risks, edge cases, and initial approaches before opening any design tool. Align quickly with your team and compress the time from ambiguity to direction.
• Prototype and build with AI. Use Cursor and Claude Code to turn rough concepts into interactive prototypes and generate production‐ready frontend code. Move fluidly between code and design tools to get the best result.
• Co‐create with PMs and engineers from day one. Define UX requirements early, stay in the build through QA and release, and make engineering‐aware design decisions.
• Validate and measure. Talk directly with customers, run quick tests, and use what you learn to adjust direction. Track funnels, retention, and adoption to assess design effectiveness and sharpen what ships next.
• Find the highest‐leverage bets from the backlog. Identify where product improvements can unlock business value, align stakeholders, and move fast to deliver.

Qualifications

• Reasoning ability. Solve complex problems using first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist biases, and take care of the details that matter.
• Drive. Be extremely ambitious in everything you do—initiative, effort, and tenacity match the intensity of your ambition. Feel deeply responsible for your work and hold yourself to a high rising bar.
• Team spirit. Give generously without expecting return. Support the best idea, not your own. Be reliable, honest, and transparent, and be happy to get hands dirty to help teammates.
• Proficiency in English. Read, write, and speak proficiently in English.

Benefits

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. Work in small, result‐oriented, autonomous teams alongside some of the brightest people in your field.
• An exceptional opportunity for growth. We hire individuals of outstanding potential and place them in roles that allow them to thrive. Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and you could soon play an essential role in major projects.
• All. These. Benefits. Flexible hours, remote working, unlimited backing for learning and training, top‐of‐the‐market health insurance, a rich relocation package, generous parental support, and a yearly retreat to a stunning location.
• Competitive pay and equity. Typically, we offer individuals with limited experience an annual salary of £85,797 in London and €66,065 elsewhere in Europe. For considerable experience, the salary ranges tend to be between £112,189 and £250,512 in London, and €107,837 to €188,848 elsewhere. Compensation grows rapidly as you gain experience and translate it into greater contributions. If offered a permanent contract, some pay may be received in company equity at a discounted price, allowing participation in value creation. If relocating to Italy, you may enjoy a 50% tax cut.

Contract

Permanent or fixed‐term. Full‐time.

Location

Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), or fully remote from eligible countries.

EEO Statement

We consider all applicants for employment and provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities—please let us know through this form.