Legal Counsel

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. 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. 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. 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.
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.
You're extremely ambitious in everything you do—and your initiative, effort, and tenacity match the intensity of your ambition. You're always happy to get your hands dirty to help your team. Proficiency in English. You read, write, and speak proficiently in English.
And if you've got what it takes, you'll soon be playing an essential role in major projects, too.
Typically, we offer individuals at the start of their career an annual salary of £85,797 in London and €66,065 elsewhere in Europe. Compensation varies by location and expected impact, and grows rapidly as you gain experience and translate it into greater contributions. If you're offered a permanent contract, you'll also be able to receive some of your pay in company equity at a discounted price, thus participating in the value creation we achieve together. If relocating to Italy, you may enjoy a 50% tax cut.
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. We help each Spooner set up the conditions to do their best work.
Commitment & contract
Permanent or fixed‐term. Full‐time.
Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland) or remote in selected countries.
Studies suggest that women tend not to apply for a job if their CV isn't a perfect fit. Here, talent takes precedence over experience. To help you ramp up quickly and set yourself up for success, we recommend spending your first few months working from our Milan office, regardless of your long‐term work location. We'll support you with generous travel and accommodation assistance. After that, you're welcome to work from our offices in Milan or London, or remotely from approved countries—depending on what we agree at the offer stage.
Entry level
Full-time
Legal
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