Legal counsel (employment)

This position is at Bending Spoons

The selection process will be entirely managed by Bending Spoons.

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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. 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. ### Responsibilities * **Advise on the employee lifecycle.** Give practical advice on hiring, contracts, compensation and equity, relocations, and terminations, balancing legal risk with business speed and fair treatment of all people involved. * **Support workforce transitions and integrations.** Help plan and navigate workforce changes after acquisitions and reorganizations across EU countries, balancing business needs with fair treatment and legal compliance. Work with stakeholders to manage consultations with works councils and unions. * **Manage employment disputes.** Handle claims and litigation across EU jurisdictions, coordinating with local outside counsel and aligning HR, finance, and leadership on strategy. * **Build compliant, scalable processes.** Partner with Talent and People teams to keep hiring processes and AI-powered tools compliant, and create templates, policies, and playbooks using AI-powered workflows. * **Stay ahead of regulation.** Monitor developments in national and EU employment law, and turn them into clear, practical guidance for the business. ### Requirements * **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.

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