About the Role
- Bending Spoons is a demanding environment that requires significant commitment.
- To help you ramp up quickly and set yourself up for success, we expect you to spend most days in our Milan office during your first few months with us, regardless of your long-term work location.
- We’ll support you with generous travel and accommodation assistance.
- After that, you’re welcome to work from one of our offices, or remotely from approved countries—depending on what we agree at the offer stage.
What You'll Be Doing
- Shape high-leverage product experiences by designing exceptional UI and UX—from early concepts to polished delivery—using the best available tools to explore more directions, move faster, and raise the quality bar.
- Ensure every experience is intuitive, effective, and delightful.
- Start with an LLM, using AI tools to clarify intent, draft short specs, and surface risks, edge cases, and initial approaches before opening any design tool.
- Use this work to align quickly with your team and compress the time from ambiguity to direction.
- Prototype and build with AI using Cursor and Claude Code to turn rough concepts into interactive prototypes and generate production-ready frontend code.
- Move fluidly between code and Figma to get the best result.
- Co-create with PMs and engineers from day one, defining UX requirements early, staying in the build through QA and release, and making engineering-aware design decisions.
- Validate and measure by talking directly with customers, running quick tests, and using 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 to identify where product improvements can unlock business value, align stakeholders around them, and move fast to deliver.
What You'll Bring
Reasoning ability to solve complex problems using first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist the influence of biases, and identify and take care of the details that matter.
Drive, being extremely ambitious in everything you do with initiative, effort, and tenacity that matches the intensity of your ambition.
Team spirit, giving generously, supporting the best idea, and being reliable, honest, and transparent.
Proficiency in English for reading, writing, and speaking.
Compensation & Benefits
- Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams working in small, result-oriented, autonomous teams alongside some of the brightest people in your field.
- An exceptional opportunity for growth, where Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Competitive pay and access to equity in the company.
- For individuals at the start of their career, an annual salary of £85,797 in London and €66,065 elsewhere in Europe.
- For candidates assessed as possessing considerable relevant experience, the salary on offer tends to be between £112,189 and £250,512 in London, and €107,837 and €188,848 elsewhere in Europe.
- Compensation varies by location and expected impact, and grows rapidly as you gain experience and translate it into greater contributions.
- For individuals who demonstrate exceptional capability, compensation may extend beyond the usual ranges to reflect higher expected impact.
- For permanent contracts, the ability to receive some pay in company equity at a discounted price.
- A 50% tax cut if relocating to Italy.
- 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.
Interview Process
- A screening process that prioritizes verifiable signals of excellence, regardless of seniority.
- One or more challenging tests that may involve unfamiliar problems and can take several hours.
- A high bar for selection, which may result in a job remaining open for months or being reposted several times.
About Bending Spoons
- Bending Spoons strives to build one of the all-time great companies that serves a huge number of customers, where team members grow to their full potential, functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency, creates value for shareowners at an extraordinary rate, and adheres to high ethical standards.
- We acquire and improve digital businesses to own and operate for the long term.
- Transformations are often deep—designed to speed up innovation, benefit customers, and strengthen business performance.
- Hierarchy is minimal and teams are small and talent-dense.
- We operate established products with the ambition, agility, and urgency of a startup, integrating AI deeply into how we work so that human judgment and machine intelligence reinforce each other.