Graduate Privacy Counsel

Graduate Privacy Counsel (AI And Product) Join Bending Spoons as a Graduate Privacy Counsel (AI and Product) and help shape privacy practices across our product, engineering, and security teams while learning and growing in a high-performance environment.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, shaping 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, 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.Qualifications- Reasoning ability: Able to solve complex problems by thinking from first principles, structuring ideas sharply, resisting biases, and attending to critical details.- Drive: Extremely ambitious with initiative, effort, and tenacity that matches the intensity of your ambition; feels deeply responsible for your work and holds yourself to a high—and rising—bar.- Team spirit: Gives generously without expectation of return, supports the best idea (not your own), is reliable, honest, and transparent, and is willing to get hands dirty to help the team.- Proficiency in English: Reads, writes, and speaks proficiently in English.Benefits- Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams: Work in small, result-oriented, autonomous teams alongside some of the brightest people in your field.- An exceptional opportunity for growth: Early-career hires are placed in roles to thrive; Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and those with potential can soon play an essential role in major projects.- Competitive pay and access to equity: Typical starting salaries range from £85,797 (London) to €66,065 (Europe) for early-career candidates, with higher ranges for more experienced applicants.Permanent contract holders may receive company equity at a discounted price and can qualify for a 50% tax cut when relocating to Italy.- Comprehensive benefits: Flexible hours, remote working options, unlimited support 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 & ContractPermanent or fixed-term.Full-time.LocationMilan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), or remote.The selection processAfter screening, shortlisted candidates complete tests designed to assess problem-solving skills.Successful candidates are invited to a series of interviews.The selection bar is high; positions may stay open for months or be reposted as needed.Equal opportunity statementBending Spoons is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.We consider all applicants for employment and provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.#J-*****-Ljbffr