Privacy Counsel

Job Description

Privacy Counsel | Bending Spoons

The Tone:
This is a full-time Privacy Counsel role at Bending Spoons, with location options in Milan, London, Madrid, Warsaw, or remote in selected countries, with an initial onboarding period in Milan. Bending Spoons focuses on acquiring digital businesses with untapped potential and enhancing them using their comprehensive platform of expertise, technology, and culture. The company strives to build one of the all-time great companies, serving many customers while adhering to high ethical standards and creating value. This role is crucial for ensuring the company adheres to these standards and regulatory compliance as it grows, providing strategic privacy guidance across all operations and acquisitions. It offers an opportunity for driven individuals to make a significant impact and advance their careers within a demanding yet rewarding environment focused on unparalleled effectiveness and growth.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Permanent or fixed-term
• Location: Hybrid, Milan, London, Madrid, Warsaw
• Pay: $66065–$250512 yearly
• Mission: Ensure compliance with data protection regulations and strategic alignment through proactive advice and management of privacy-related legal work.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Partnering: Provide strategic privacy advice, embed privacy-by-design principles, and translate regulatory requirements into practical technical solutions across cross-functional teams like Product, Engineering, and Security.
• Risk Management: Proactively identify privacy risks and opportunities to shape privacy-compliant tools, features, and workflows early in the development process and promote continuous improvement in data protection practices.
• Legal Work: 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.
• Auditing: 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.
• Monitoring: Monitor evolving privacy regulations, case law, and best practices, and communicate relevant insights internally to ensure ongoing compliance and strategic alignment.

The Must-Haves
• Background: A legal background or traineeship, demonstrating the ability to solve complex problems and think from first principles. The company is open to candidates still studying or completing their legal traineeship.
• Experience: Demonstrated capability to excel over time, with verifiable signals of excellence in legal problem-solving and privacy management, regardless of specific seniority.
• Skills: Strong reasoning ability to solve complex problems, deep understanding of privacy law and data protection regulations for drafting and review, and excellent communication skills for internal insights.
• Skills: A high level of drive, initiative, and tenacity to match ambition, coupled with a strong sense of responsibility for work and a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Skills: A collaborative team spirit, characterized by generosity, support for the best ideas, willingness to assist the team, and reliability, honesty, and transparency.
• Skills: Proficiency in English, enabling effective reading, writing, and speaking in a professional context.