Data Protection Officer - Fractional (1-2 days per week)
Join Intent HQ, an award-winning AI analytics leader powering telecoms, finance & retail giants. As our Fractional DPO, you’ll drive GDPR compliance & shape privacy-first innovation.
Job Title:
Data Protection Officer (DPO)
Location:
Remote, with occasional travel to Intent HQ offices or client sites as required.
Engagement Type:
Fractional Dial Up/Dial down - Expectation is 1-2 days per week on average
What we are looking for:
We are seeking a Fractional Data Protection Officer (DPO) to act as the independent data protection lead for Intent HQ. This role ensures that our data handling activities comply with applicable data protection laws (including GDPR, UK DPA 2018, and other relevant regulations), while also fostering a culture of privacy-by-design across the company.
You will work closely with our legal, security, product, and engineering teams to provide expert advice, monitor compliance, manage risk, and liaise with regulators where necessary.
What you will do:
Regulatory Compliance & Oversight
- Serve as the primary contact point for data protection authorities (e.g., ICO, CNIL) and handle regulatory communications.
- Monitor compliance with GDPR, UK DPA, and other applicable data protection laws in all jurisdictions where Intent HQ operates.
- Maintain and oversee the company’s Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) and Legitimate Interest Assessments (LIAs).
Policy & Governance
- Review, update, and implement data protection policies, standards, and procedures across the organisation.
- Ensure Records of Processing Activities (RoPA) are accurate, up to date, and aligned with regulatory requirements.
- Advise on and review data processing agreements with clients, partners, and suppliers.
Privacy by Design & Risk Management
- Provide input into product development and data initiatives to ensure privacy-by-design principles are embedded from the outset.
- Identify and assess privacy risks in business processes, products, and services, and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Oversee personal data breach management, including investigation, reporting, and remediation.
Training & Awareness
- Develop and deliver privacy and data protection training to employees and contractors.
- Promote a culture of privacy awareness and accountability throughout the company.
What you need:
Essential
- Proven experience as a Data Protection Officer or equivalent role, ideally in a technology or data-driven business.
- Deep understanding of GDPR, UK DPA 2018, and other relevant global privacy regulations.
- Strong experience with data protection governance, DPIAs, and vendor risk management.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage with senior leadership, technical teams, and regulators.
- Ability to work independently in a fractional capacity, with flexibility to support business needs on-demand.
Desirable
- CIPP/E, CIPM, or other recognised privacy certification.
- Experience in AI, big data, or telecoms data environments.
- Familiarity with ISO 27701, ISO 27001, and other information security frameworks.
Engagement Details
- Time Commitment: Estimated 2–4 days per month, with flexibility for additional hours during audits, product launches, or incidents.
- Contract Length: Initial 12-month engagement, with option to renew.
- Reporting Line: Reports to the COO
Why Join Intent HQ?
- Shape privacy governance in a cutting-edge AI-driven company.
- Work with a global team passionate about ethical and compliant data use.
- Flexible fractional arrangement that values expertise over hours.
- Longer term opportunity potential for ongoing collaboration.
- Flexible working
- 26 days holiday (increasing with service)
- Work socials
About Intent
You leave a trail behind you every day — and it says more about what you will do next than anything you have told a company directly. Your phone registers when you fall asleep and when you wake. Your mobile network notices your commute. Your browser remembers that you wandered onto a competitor's site last Tuesday — and the Tuesday before that. You move through the world, and the world quietly takes notes.
Most companies lose the detail. A large mobile network generates hundreds of billions of events every single day — too expensive to keep in raw form. So your rich, specific, wonderfully complicated life gets compressed into an average. You become “males 25–34 in the southeast who browsed upgrades.” A bucket. A segment. And then that bucket gets blasted with messages — because when you cannot tell what someone actually wants, the only strategy left is frequency. Send more, send often, hope something lands.
We built something different. Intent runs two types of intelligence in parallel. Our cloud engine reads billions of events a day — weblogs, payments, app signals, CRM records — and finds behavioural sequences: chains of small actions that unfold in a recognisable order before someone switches, upgrades, or leaves. Our on-device Edge AI sits directly on the phone, reading 16,000 signals and distilling them into 750 insights about your current state — without any of that information ever leaving the device.
We manage over 300 million customer profiles. We underpin $115 billion in customer value. We hold 49 patents in behavioural AI, privacy architecture, and on-device intelligence. We were named AI Business of the Year 2025. And Verizon — with large data science teams of its own — has been our customer for seven years, because what we have built over a decade of patents, learning, and rigorous product development cannot be easily replicated.
Our Team
Around 110 people and growing, based across London, Barcelona, Lisbon, New York, and Tel Aviv. Engineers, data scientists, product designers, and commercial minds who collectively speak over 15 languages. United by a single conviction: when you understand human behaviour properly, relevance follows — and when relevance follows, so does value.
Why Join Intent
Work that matters at genuine scale.
Our clients have tens of millions of customers and billions of interaction events each day. You will not be optimising a landing page — you will be shaping how the world's largest enterprises understand and serve their customers.
Category-defining technology.
49 patents. An AI that reads 16,000 behavioural signals directly on your phone — data never leaves. A cloud engine that digests 250 billion events a day and delivers fresh intelligence in under 120 seconds. Privacy twins that make re-identification mathematically infeasible.
Global reach, real momentum.
Verizon, MTN Group, ABG Capital — across telecoms, financial services, retail, and social media. Expanding rapidly into Latin America, Africa, APAC, India, and the Middle East. AI Business of the Year 2025.
A place to grow — fast.
We are at an inflexion point: approaching profitability, launching a flagship agentic platform, and scaling commercially across seven regions. The people who join now will shape the next chapter.
Hybrid and flexible.
London-based roles work from the office three days a week, with the rest remote. Team members across Barcelona, Lisbon, New York, South Africa, Nigeria, Brazil, India, and Tel Aviv — a genuinely international team solving genuinely global problems.
Our Values — In Practice
Human-first. No one is average. We start with individual reality, motivation, and context — not statistical convenience or abstract users.
Principled. Privacy is a human right — a design principle, not a legal afterthought. Trust is foundational, not optional.
Ambitious. We anticipate the edge — looking ahead early and building what others assume cannot yet be built.
Inclusive. Intentionally relevant. Every interaction should earn its place — serving simply, with clarity in product, communication, and action.
In service. We serve simply — to our customers, to each other, and to the work itself. No unnecessary complexity, no ego in the way.