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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, 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. To achieve this, we acquire digital businesses with untapped potential and leverage our platform – comprising our expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and culture – to make them successful. We then invest the proceeds into making our platform more powerful and acquiring new businesses, combining investor capital allocation with an operator’s hands‑on approach.

A few examples of your 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 biases, and take care of 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, rising bar.
• Team spirit. You give generously without expectation of return, support the best idea, not your idea, and are always ready to get your hands dirty to help the 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 hire individuals of outstanding potential and place them in positions to thrive. Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and if you have what it takes, you’ll soon play an essential role in major projects.
• Competitive pay and access to equity in the company. Typical salary ranges from £83,997 to £194,964 in London and €63,965 to €186,748 elsewhere in Europe, depending on experience and impact. You can also receive part of your pay in company equity at a discounted price. If relocating to Italy, you may enjoy a 50% tax cut.
• All. These. 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. We help each Spooner set up the conditions to do their best work.

Commitment & contract

Permanent or fixed‑term. Full‑time.

Location

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

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 you’re successful, we’ll invite you to a series of interviews. We set the bar high and won’t extend an offer until we’re convinced we’ve found the right candidate, which is why a job may stay open for months or be reposted several times. Women may hesitate to apply if their CV isn’t a perfect fit; here, talent takes precedence over experience. If you like the role and think you could be awesome at it in time, go ahead and apply.

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 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 and career growth, it also requires significant commitment.