Privacy Counsel AI and Product

About Bending Spoons

At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. Our ambition is to serve a vast number of customers, foster the full potential of our team members, operate with unparalleled effectiveness and efficiency, and create extraordinary value for shareholders, all while upholding high ethical standards.

Our strategy involves acquiring digital businesses with untapped potential and maximizing their success by leveraging our powerful platform—which encompasses our expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and company culture. We then reinvest profits to strengthen our platform and acquire new ventures, blending an investor's focus on capital allocation with a hands-on operator's approach.

For talented, driven, and collaborative individuals, Bending Spoons offers an exceptional opportunity for rapid learning, significant impact, and accelerated career progression. This is our unwavering promise to such candidates.

About the Privacy Counsel AI and Product Role

As a Privacy Counsel AI and Product, you will be instrumental in integrating privacy into Bending Spoons' innovative products and AI initiatives. Your responsibilities will span strategic advice, legal compliance, and proactive risk management within a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

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

We seek individuals who demonstrate:

• Reasoning ability: You can solve complex problems by thinking from first principles, structuring ideas sharply, resisting biases, and focusing on critical details.
• Drive: You possess extreme ambition, matched by initiative, effort, and tenacity. You feel deeply responsible for your work and consistently raise your own bar.
• Team spirit: You give generously, support the best ideas, are willing to get your hands dirty, 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, autonomous teams with some of the brightest minds in your field.
• An exceptional opportunity for growth: We hire individuals with outstanding potential and provide them with the ideal environment to thrive. Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and you can quickly play an essential role in major projects.
• Competitive pay and access to equity: We offer competitive annual salaries, typically starting around £85,797 in London or €66,065 elsewhere in Europe for early career individuals, and ranging from £112,189-£250,512 in London or €107,837-€188,848 elsewhere in Europe for experienced candidates. Compensation grows rapidly with impact, and exceptional capability may lead to offers beyond these ranges. Permanent contract holders can also receive company equity at a discounted price. Relocating to Italy may offer a 50% tax cut.
• Comprehensive benefits: Enjoy flexible hours, remote working options, unlimited learning and training support, top-tier health insurance, a rich relocation package, generous parental support, and a yearly company retreat to stunning locations. We empower each Spooner to achieve their best work.

Commitment & Contract

This is a full-time, permanent or fixed-term position.

Location

The role can be based in Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland) or remote in selected countries. We recommend spending your first few months in our Milan office to quickly absorb our culture and build trust, with generous travel and accommodation assistance provided.

The Selection Process

Our screening prioritizes verifiable signals of excellence. Don't self-reject due to perceived lack of experience. If you pass screening, you'll complete challenging tests. We set a high bar and may keep roles open for months to find the right candidate. We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

Before You Apply

If you've applied before without an offer, please wait at least one year. Bending Spoons is a demanding environment, requiring significant commitment for extraordinary learning and growth. Apply now if you're excited to give your best.

Key skills/competency

• Privacy Law
• Data Protection
• GDPR
• CCPA
• AI Ethics
• Product Development Lifecycle
• Risk Management
• Legal Compliance
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Contract Drafting