We are seeking a mid-level Commercial Lawyer (3–7 years’ post-qualification experience) with strong data privacy expertise to support us!
Intent HQ redefines customer understanding for the agentic era, enabling enterprises to influence customer decisions at the moments that determine growth, loyalty, and competitive advantage. As the Human-to-AI Context Company, we offer groundbreaking AI technology that creates the missing context of human behaviour and individuality, transforming data into confident decisions that reflect how people actually act in the real world. We enable brands to Act With Intent.
Trusted by global enterprises, Intent HQ manages 325M+ profiles and processes 250B events daily. We won AI Business of the Year (National AI Awards 2025), Analytics Company of the Year (British Data Awards 2025), and winner of Best AI Ethics & Diversity Strategy (AI World Series Awards 2025), recognising Intent HQ’s AI innovation, analytics excellence, and ethical leadership. Intent HQ is a proven partner for leaders seeking measurable growth, faster decision velocity, and responsible AI-driven advantage.
To learn more, visitwww.intenthq.com
Overview
We are seeking a mid-level Commercial Lawyer (3–7 years’ post-qualification experience) with strong data privacy expertise to join our legal team. Reporting to the VP of Legal & Data Protection Officer, this role is part of a growing in-house legal function. This is a part-time role (3 - 4 days per week) and would suit either a contractor or a part-time employee.
The role sits at the intersection of commercial contracting, data protection, and emerging AI regulation, supporting a fast-moving, technology-driven business.
Intent HQ is an AI-powered customer analytics platform that transforms first-party and behavioural data into actionable insights for global enterprises in telecommunications, banking, and retail. Operating across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, we process billions of data points daily across over 250 million customer profiles with a privacy-first approach.
The ideal candidate would be able to come to our London office one day a week and also when required for specific meetings.
Key Responsibilities
Commercial Contracts
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including SaaS, cloud licensing, freemium platform, data partnership, data-sharing, supplier, and customer contracts.
- Provide pragmatic, business-focused legal advice on contractual risk and strategy
- Support the development and maintenance of contract templates, playbooks, and standard-form agreements to enable consistent and efficient deal execution.
- Assist with structuring commercial terms related to monetisation strategies, including free-to-paid conversion models, usage-based pricing, and tiered licensing.
- Support international commercial operations, ensuring agreements are consistent with local and cross-border legal and regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
Data Protection & Privacy
- Advise on UK GDPR and broader data protection laws.
- Draft and negotiate Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) and related documentation.
- Support internal stakeholders on privacy-by-design and data governance initiatives.
- Assist with data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) and regulatory queries.
Intellectual Property & Data Rights
- Advise on intellectual property matters, including ownership of AI-generated outputs, data usage rights, and licensing.
- Support the review and management of open-source licensing obligations and third-party IP dependencies.
AI & Regulatory Compliance
- Support the business in navigating emerging AI regulatory frameworks.
- Advise on legal and ethical considerations in AI/data use.
- Work closely with product and engineering teams on compliant product development.
- Contribute to the development of scalable legal processes and frameworks that support product experimentation while maintaining compliance and commercial clarity.
Cross-functional Collaboration
- Partner with Sales, Product, Engineering, and other commercial teams to enable business growth and support the deal cycle from structuring through to close.
- Translate complex legal concepts into clear, actionable guidance.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer with 3–7 years’ PQE (UK or equivalent jurisdiction).
- Strong experience in commercial contracting.
- Solid grounding in data protection/privacy law (e.g. UK GDPR).
- Experience with technology companies or digital products.
- Exposure to AI, data-driven products, or emerging regulation is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with international data transfer frameworks and experience supporting multi-jurisdictional commercial transactions.
Skills & Attributes
- Commercially minded with a practical, solutions-oriented approach.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Ability to balance legal risk with business objectives.
Desirable
- In-house experience in a tech or data-focused company.
- Interest in AI governance and regulatory developments.
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.