Privacy counsel (AI and product) – Bending Spoons

Join Bending Spoons to work on privacy matters in AI and product teams.

At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. A company that serves a huge number of customers, where team members grow to their full potential, functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency, creates value for shareholders at an extraordinary rate, and does so while adhering to high ethical standards. We acquire digital businesses with untapped potential and make them as successful as we can by leveraging our platform—comprising our expertise, technologies, data, brand, talent, and culture—then invest proceeds into strengthening the platform and acquiring new businesses. Our strategy combines an investor’s focus on capital allocation with the hands‑on approach of an operator.

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

• Reasoning ability. Given the necessary knowledge, you can solve complex problems. You think from first principles, structure your ideas sharply, resist the influence of biases, and focus on the details that matter.
• Drive. You’re extremely ambitious in everything you do—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. You support the best idea, not your own, and are always happy to get your hands dirty to help your team. You’re reliable, honest and transparent.
• Proficiency in English. You read, write and speak English proficiently.

What we offer

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. You’ll work in small, result‑oriented, autonomous teams alongside the brightest people in your field.
• Exceptional opportunities for growth. We bring individuals of outstanding potential and place them in positions to thrive. Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars; with experience, you’ll play an essential role in major projects too.
• Competitive pay and equity. Compensation ranges by location and experience, typically £85,797–£250,512 in London and €66,065–€188,848 elsewhere in Europe. Permanent contract offers include discounted equity and, for relocation to Italy, a 50% tax cut.
• Comprehensive benefits. 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.

Commitment & contract

Permanent or fixed‑term. Full‑time.

Location

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

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. Successful candidates will then join 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. A job may stay open for months or be reposted several times.

Bending Spoons is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We consider any applicant for employment and provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities—just let us know through the 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 each other 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 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. It’s the best way to absorb our culture and build trust with teammates. 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.

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.