UX/UI designer

Meetup is a community-building platform that millions of people use to discover events, meet others who share their interests, and cultivate meaningful real-world connections. Now part of Bending Spoons, it plays a key role in a portfolio of outstanding digital businesses united by a shared focus on innovation and operational excellence. By applying through the Meetup brand, you’ll be stepping into the wider Bending Spoons team. You may work directly on Meetup or contribute to one of our other leading products. Either way, you’ll be part of a high‑performing, collaborative environment where you can make a real impact.

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, that functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency, and that creates value for shareholders at an extraordinary rate while adhering to high ethical standards. In pursuit of this objective, we acquire and improve digital businesses so that we can own and operate them for the long term. The transformations we make are often deep—designed to speed up innovation, benefit customers, and strengthen business performance. Here, hierarchy is minimal and teams are small and talent‑dense. We operate established products with the ambition, agility, and urgency of a startup, and we integrate AI deeply into how we 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—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. Use 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. Use Cursor and Claude Code to turn rough concepts into interactive prototypes and generate production‑ready frontend code.
• 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 around them, and move fast to deliver.

Qualifications

• 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 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 and 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.

Benefits

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. You’ll 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 positions where they can thrive.
• Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and if you’ve got what it takes, you’ll soon be playing an essential role in major projects.
• Competitive pay and access to equity in the company. Typical salary ranges vary by location and impact, and grow rapidly as you gain experience. Details: London £85,797‑£250,512; other European locations €66,065‑€188,848. Permanent contract may include equity at a discounted price.
• 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.

Contract

• Permanent or fixed‑term.
• Full‑time.
• Location Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland) or remote in selected countries.

We consider all applicants for employment and provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. Please let us know if you need any accommodations during the hiring process.