Graduate Privacy Counsel (AI And Product) in Hampshire, Portsmouth

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, and that adheres to high ethical standards. To achieve this objective, we acquire a digital business with untapped potential and make it successful by leveraging our platform, which comprises our expertise, technologies, data, brand, talents, and company culture.

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.

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: You can solve complex problems, think from first principles, and structure your ideas sharply.
• Drive: You’re extremely ambitious and feel deeply responsible for your work.
• Team spirit: You support the best idea, not your idea, and are reliable, honest, and transparent.
• Proficiency in English: You read, write, and speak proficiently in English.

What we offer:

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams.
• An exceptional opportunity for growth.
• Competitive pay and access to equity in the company.
• 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 in selected countries.

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. If you’re successful, we’ll invite you to a series of interviews.

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, requiring significant commitment.

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.