Graduate Privacy Counsel

About Bending Spoons

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

To achieve this objective, we execute the following strategy: We acquire a digital business with untapped potential and make it as successful as we can by leveraging our platform—which comprises our expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and company culture. Then, we invest the proceeds into making our platform more powerful, and into acquiring new businesses. Thus, our strategy sees us combine an investor’s attention to capital allocation with the hands-on approach of an operator.

For a talented, driven, and collaborative individual, working at Bending Spoons is an opportunity to learn, make an impact, and progress their career at an exceptionally high rate. That’s our promise to such a candidate.

If you’re still studying or completing your legal traineeship, don’t worry—if the selection process goes well, we’re happy to wait until you’re done.

Key Responsibilities for the Graduate Privacy Counsel

• 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 Bending Spoons Looks For

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. You identify 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. You 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.

What Bending Spoons Offers

• 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: Bending Spoons hires individuals of outstanding potential and puts them in the ideal position to thrive, with Spooners in their 20s often leading products worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Competitive pay and access to equity in the company: Annual salaries start around £85,797 in London and €66,065 elsewhere in Europe for entry-level, with potential for significantly higher compensation based on experience and impact. Permanent contract holders may also receive company equity at a discounted price.
• 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

Bending Spoons prioritizes verifiable signals of excellence. If you pass screening, you’ll complete challenging tests. They set a high bar, and the job may remain open until the right candidate is found. They consider all applicants and provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

Before You Apply

If you’ve applied before, it’s recommended to wait at least one year before reapplying. Bending Spoons is a demanding, ambitious environment that requires significant commitment but offers extraordinary learning and career growth. They recommend spending your first few months in the Milan office for rapid cultural absorption and team building, with generous travel and accommodation assistance provided.

Key skills/competency

• Privacy Law
• Data Protection
• Regulatory Compliance
• Privacy by Design
• Legal Drafting
• Risk Assessment
• AI Ethics
• Product Development
• GDPR
• Cross-functional Collaboration