Legal counsel, US

About the role

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 functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency. We acquire and improve digital businesses to own and operate for the long term, making deep transformations to speed up innovation, benefit customers, and strengthen business performance. Hierarchy is minimal, teams are small and talent-dense, and 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.

Responsibilities

• Support our acquisitions. Support and advise our Accounting, Finance, and Business Acquisitions team on cross-border acquisitions, conducting due diligence, analysing and drafting transaction documents, and following post-completion integrations.
• 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 the US and abroad, coordinating with external advisers and ensuring alignment across business functions.
• 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.

Requirements

• Reasoning ability. Given the necessary knowledge, you can solve complex problems. You think from first principles, structure your ideas sharply, resist biases, and identify 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 and hold yourself to a high—and rising—bar.
• Team spirit. You give generously without expectation of return, support the best idea (not just your own), and are 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, encountering some of the main challenges you’ll face in this role.

Benefits

• Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. Work in small, result-oriented, autonomous teams alongside some of the brightest people in your field.
• Exceptional opportunity for growth. We prioritize putting individuals of outstanding potential in the ideal position to thrive. Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Flexible hours and remote working options, with 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.
• Competitive pay and access to company equity at a discount.

Pay

Typically, we offer individuals with limited experience an annual salary of $204,281 in the United States. For candidates we assess as possessing exceptional potential and highly unusual achievement, compensation typically ranges from $257,642 to $522,120. Compensation varies by location and expected impact. In higher-cost markets such as New York City, offers are generally positioned toward the upper end of the range. As you grow your expertise and increase your contributions, your compensation can grow rapidly alongside your impact.

Schedule

To help you ramp up quickly and set yourself up for success, we expect you to spend most days in our Milan office during your first few months, regardless of your long-term work location. After that, you’re welcome to work from one of our offices or remotely from approved countries, depending on what we agree at the offer stage.