Legal counsel

Bending Spoons; Warszawa; Remote; PLN 288,000 - 471,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Remote working

Learning and training

Health insurance

Relocation package

Parental support

Equity options

Job summary

Bending Spoons is seeking a talented legal professional to draft and negotiate contracts, advise across the business, and support global product launches. You will work with external counsel and internal teams to manage risk, ensure compliance, and guide AI-enabled workflows across regions.

The role offers a challenging environment with growth opportunities, a focus on efficiency, and a commitment to ethical standards in a fast-growing, globally distributed company.

Qualifications

• Reasoning ability to solve complex problems with first principles thinking.
• Ambition and initiative, a strong sense of responsibility for work.
• Team spirit, supporting the best idea and being reliable and honest.
• Proficiency in English reading, writing, and speaking.
• Some experience after earning a law degree in a relevant setting.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate cross-border commercial contracts with vendors/customers.
• Support product launches by drafting external communications and policies.
• Advise across the business on legal and regulatory matters.
• Manage disputes and coordinate with external advisers.
• Guide labour matters globally in alignment with values and culture.
• Build scalable legal tools and AI-powered workflows.
• Stay ahead of regulation and identify value opportunities.

Skills

Reasoning ability

Drive

Team spirit

English proficiency

Some experience

Education

Law degree

Job description

At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. A company that serves a huge number of customers. A company where team members grow to their full potential. A company that functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency. A company that creates value for shareowners at an extraordinary rate. And a company that does so while adhering to high ethical standards.

In pursuit of this objective, we acquire and improve digital businesses, not to sell on, but to own and operate for the long term. The transformations we make are often deep—designed to speed up innovation, benefit customers, and strengthen business performance. Here, hierarchy is minimal and teams are small and talent-dense. We operate established products with the ambition, agility, and urgency of a startup. Across the company, we integrate AI deeply into how we work so that human judgment and machine intelligence reinforce each other.

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. That’s our promise to such a candidate.

A few examples of your responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate contracts. Handle cross-border commercial contracts with vendors and customers—initial drafting and review of confidentiality, consulting, licensing, SaaS, and other technology-related agreements, while applying your judgment to validate terms and manage risk.
• Support product launches. Partner with product teams on global launches by drafting external communications, legal terms, and policies—leveraging AI to produce first drafts efficiently and focusing your expertise on accuracy, compliance, and strategic alignment.
• Advise across the business. Partner cross-functionally and collaborate with outside counsel to deliver practical legal advice and risk mitigation strategies on a broad range of topics—including technology, product, marketing, commercial and regulatory matters, intellectual property, consumer protection, and AI governance.
• Manage disputes. Handle disputes and litigation in Italy and abroad, coordinating with external advisers and ensuring alignment across business functions.
• Guide labour matters. Support labour-related matters globally in alignment with our values and company culture.
• Build scalable legal tools. Create and maintain forms, playbooks, and other scalable tools—integrating AI-powered workflows to support the company’s high-growth business.
• Stay ahead of regulation. Monitor legal and regulatory developments and proactively identify opportunities to unlock value and address evolving business needs.

What we look for

• Reasoning ability. Given the necessary knowledge, you can solve complex problems. You think from first principles, and structure your ideas sharply. You resist the influence of biases. You identify and take care of the details that matter.
• Drive. You’re extremely ambitious in everything you do—and your initiative, effort, and tenacity match the intensity of your ambition. You feel deeply responsible for your work. You hold yourself to a high—and rising—bar.
• Team spirit. You give generously and without the expectation of receiving in return. You support the best idea, not your idea. You're 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 proficiently in English.
• Some experience. After obtaining a law degree, you practiced at a law firm or as in-house counsel for a period of time, in which you encountered some of the main challenges you’ll face in the role.

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 go to great lengths to hire individuals of outstanding potential—then, our priority is to put them in the ideal position to thrive. Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And if you’ve got what it takes, you’ll soon be playing an essential role in major projects, too.
• 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.
• Competitive pay and access to company equity at a discount. Typical annual salary offers range from £85,797 to £151,436 in London and from €66,065 to €107,837 elsewhere in Europe. The lower end of these ranges applies to candidates with little or no relevant experience, while exceptionally experienced candidates may receive offers of up to £398,287 in London or €303,108 elsewhere in Europe. Candidates offered a permanent contract may choose to receive part of their compensation in discounted company equity.

Commitment & contract

Permanent or fixed-term. Full-time.

Location

Milan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), or fully remote from eligible countries.

The selection process

In our screening process, we prioritize verifiable signals of excellence, regardless of seniority. There are no preferential paths beyond what your application demonstrates, and we evaluate every candidate through the same process.

We set the bar high and won’t extend an offer until we’re confident we’ve found the right candidate. This is why a job may remain open for months or be reposted several times.

We consider all applicants for employment and provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities—please let us know through this form.