Graduate privacy counsel (AI and product)
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At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all‑time great companies. A company that serves a huge number of customers, grows its team members to their full potential, and operates at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency. We create value for shareholders at an extraordinary rate, while adhering to high ethical standards. To achieve this, we acquire digital businesses with untapped potential and make them successful by leveraging our platform—comprising expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and culture. We invest the proceeds into strengthening our platform and acquiring new businesses, combining capital allocation with a hands‑on operator approach.
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‑protective 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, think from first principles and structure ideas sharply, resist biases, and attend to the details that matter.
* Drive. You’re extremely ambitious 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 expecting anything in return, support the best idea—not your own, and are always ready 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 we offer
* 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 go to great lengths to hire individuals of outstanding potential, then put them in the ideal position to thrive. Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and if you’ve got what it takes, you’ll soon play an essential role in major projects.
* Competitive pay and access to equity. Typically, we offer further starting salary of £85,797 in London (or €66,065 elsewhere) and higher ranges for more experience. Compensation grows rapidly with experience and proven impact, potentially exceeding usual ranges for exceptional capability.
* All these benefits. Flexible hours, remote working, unlimited support for learning and training, top‑of‑the‑market health insurance, generous relocation package, 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
If you pass our screening, we’ll ask you to take on a few tests designed to assess how you approach unfamiliar problems. They’re challenging and may take several hours to complete. If successful, we’ll invite you to a series of interviews. We set a high bar and won’t extend an offer until we’re convinced we’ve found the right candidate.
We believe talent takes precedence over experience. If you like the role and think you could be awesome, go ahead and apply.
Equal opportunity statement
Bending Spoons is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We consider for employment any applicant and provide reasonable accommodations for an individual with disabilities—just let us know through this form.
Before you apply
If you’ve applied before but didn’t receive an offer, we recommend waiting at least one year before applying again.
Bending Spoons is a demanding environment. We’re extremely ambitious and hold ourselves—and one another—to a high standard. While this leads to extraordinary learning, achievement and career growth, it also requires significant commitment. To help you ramp up quickly, we recommend spending your first few months working from our Milan office, regardless of long‑term location, with generous travel and accommodation assistance. After that, you’ll be welcome to work from Milan, London or remotely from approved countries—depending on the agreement at the offer stage.
If the role speaks to you and you’re excited to give your best, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now—we can’t wait to meet you.
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