Privacy Counsel

About Bending Spoons

Bending Spoons is striving to build one of the all-time great companies, serving a huge customer base, fostering team member growth, and operating with unparalleled effectiveness and efficiency. We aim to create extraordinary value for shareowners while adhering to high ethical standards. We acquire and improve digital businesses for long-term ownership, implementing deep transformations to accelerate innovation, benefit customers, and strengthen business performance. Our environment features minimal hierarchy and small, talent-dense teams, operating established products with startup agility and urgency. AI is deeply integrated into our operations, reinforcing human judgment with machine intelligence. For a talented, driven, and collaborative individual, Bending Spoons offers an opportunity to learn, make a significant impact, and advance their career at an exceptionally high rate.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Security teams to embed privacy-by-design principles and translate regulatory requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Identify privacy risks and opportunities early, helping shape compliant product features, workflows, and internal processes.
• Manage privacy-related legal work, using AI tools to accelerate drafting and initial review of DPAs, privacy policies, LIAs, and DPIAs, while applying judgment to ensure global data-protection compliance.
• Conduct privacy audits and coordinate work with external consultants and legal advisors, ensuring alignment across business and technical teams.
• Monitor evolving privacy regulations and case law, sharing clear guidance internally to support ongoing compliance and sound decision-making.

What We Look For

• Reasoning ability: Ability to solve complex problems from first principles, structure ideas sharply, resist biases, and identify critical details.
• Drive: Extreme ambition, initiative, effort, and tenacity, coupled with a deep sense of responsibility and a high, rising personal bar.
• Team spirit: Generosity, supporting the best idea, willingness to help, reliability, honesty, and transparency.
• Proficiency in English: Excellent written and spoken English skills.

What We Offer

• Talented Teams: Work in small, result-oriented, autonomous teams with bright, entrepreneurial individuals.
• Growth Opportunity: Exceptional potential for learning and career progression, with opportunities to lead significant projects early on.
• Competitive Compensation: Competitive pay and access to equity, with salaries reflecting location, impact, and experience. Potential for compensation beyond usual ranges for exceptional capability.
• Benefits: Flexible hours, remote working options, unlimited learning and training support, top-tier health insurance, relocation package, generous parental support, and a yearly retreat.
• Tax Benefits: Potential 50% tax cut for those relocating to Italy.

Commitment & Contract

Permanent or fixed-term. Full-time.

Location

Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland) or remote in selected countries.

Selection Process

We prioritize verifiable signals of excellence, regardless of seniority. Don't self-reject if you feel you lack experience or have an imperfect CV; if you believe you can excel, apply. If you pass the initial screening, you will be asked to complete challenging tests that may involve unfamiliar problems and take several hours. We set a high bar and only extend offers when confident in the candidate. This may result in roles remaining open for extended periods or being reposted. We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. Please notify us via the provided form.

Before You Apply

If you've applied before without an offer, we recommend waiting at least one year before reapplying. Bending Spoons is a demanding environment requiring significant commitment due to our ambitious nature and high standards. This leads to extraordinary learning and growth but demands dedication. To facilitate rapid ramp-up and success, we recommend spending the first few months in our Milan office, regardless of your long-term work location. This is the best way to absorb our culture and build team trust. We provide travel and accommodation assistance. Post-initial period, you can work from our Milan or London offices, or remotely from approved countries, as agreed during the offer stage. If this role excites you and you're ready to give your best, we encourage you to apply. Key skills/competency: Privacy Counsel, Data Protection, GDPR, CCPA, Privacy by Design, Legal Drafting, Risk Assessment, Compliance, Regulatory Analysis, AI in Legal Tech.