Graduate Privacy Counsel

About Bending Spoons

At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. Our strategy involves acquiring digital businesses with untapped potential and leveraging our platform—comprising our expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and company culture—to maximize their success. We then reinvest proceeds to strengthen our platform and acquire new businesses, combining an investor’s attention to capital allocation with the hands-on approach of an operator.

For talented, driven, and collaborative individuals, Bending Spoons offers an exceptional opportunity to learn, make a significant impact, and accelerate career progression.

The Role: Graduate Privacy Counsel

As a Graduate Privacy Counsel, you will play a crucial role in shaping the privacy landscape of our products, particularly those involving AI. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to embed privacy-by-design principles from the earliest stages of development, ensuring our innovative solutions are compliant and ethical.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams, including Product, Engineering, and Security, to provide strategic privacy advice, embed privacy-by-design principles, and translate regulatory requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Identify privacy risks and opportunities proactively, helping to shape privacy-compliant tools, features, and workflows early in the development process and promoting continuous improvement in data protection practices.
• Manage all privacy-related legal work, including drafting and reviewing data processing agreements (DPAs), privacy policies, legitimate interest assessments (LIAs), and data protection impact assessments (DPIAs), to ensure compliance with data protection regulations.
• Conduct internal and external privacy audits and oversee relationships with external privacy consultants and legal advisors, coordinating inputs across business functions and ensuring alignment on key decisions.
• Monitor evolving privacy regulations, case law, and best practices, and communicate relevant insights internally to ensure ongoing compliance and strategic alignment.

What We Look For

• Reasoning ability: You can solve complex problems from first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist biases, and identify crucial details.
• Drive: Extremely ambitious with matching initiative, effort, and tenacity. You feel deeply responsible for your work and hold yourself to a high standard.
• Team spirit: You give generously, support the best ideas, are happy to help your team, and are reliable, honest, and transparent.
• Proficiency in English: You read, write, and speak English proficiently.

What We Offer

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams: Work in small, result-oriented, autonomous teams with bright individuals.
• An exceptional opportunity for growth: We hire individuals of outstanding potential and position them to thrive, with Spooners in their 20s leading major products.
• 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 is typical. Compensation varies by location and expected impact, growing rapidly with experience. Permanent contract holders can receive company equity at a discounted price. Relocating to Italy may offer a 50% tax cut.
• 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.

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

Our screening prioritizes verifiable signals of excellence. If you like the role and believe you could excel, don’t self-reject due to perceived lack of experience. Successful applicants will complete challenging tests that may involve unfamiliar problems and take several hours. We set a high bar and ensure we find the right candidate.

Before You Apply

We recommend waiting at least one year before reapplying if you previously didn't receive an offer. Bending Spoons is a demanding, ambitious environment, requiring significant commitment. To ensure a quick ramp-up and success, we recommend spending your first few months working from our Milan office, regardless of your long-term work location. We provide generous travel and accommodation assistance for this. Afterward, you can work from our Milan or London offices, or remotely from approved countries, as agreed at the offer stage.

If this role speaks to you, we encourage you to apply now.

Key skills/competency

• Privacy Law
• GDPR
• AI Ethics
• Data Protection
• Product Development
• Legal Advice
• Risk Assessment
• Contract Review
• Compliance
• Regulatory Monitoring