DPO & Compliance Officer

Filigran; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay + equity

Remote-first, flexible, and balanced

Your setup, your choice

Twice-a-year gatherings

Job summary

Filigran is seeking a Data Protection Officer & Compliance Officer to design and implement a scalable privacy and compliance program across its global footprint. You will serve as the formal DPO, oversee privacy governance for products and operations, and lead broader compliance initiatives including AI governance and regulatory controls.

You’ll partner with General Counsel, CISO, and cross-functional teams to translate complex regulations into practical, business-friendly policies while

Qualifications

• 7–10 years’ experience as a DPO, data privacy lead or compliance officer in tech/SaaS.
• Strong knowledge of data protection law and practice; certifications preferred.
• Experience implementing EU/UK AI Act and data transfers.
• Proven ability to translate regulatory requirements into practical controls.

Responsibilities

• Act as Filigran’s DPO and primary point of contact for authorities and data subjects.
• Design and operate privacy program including DPIAs, DPIAs, retention, rights requests, and transfers.
• Lead compliance controls across AI governance, NIS2, resilience, and sanctions.
• Maintain policies, risk mapping, monitoring, and internal controls.
• Collaborate with Security, Product, and Engineering to embed regulatory requirements into products and vendor management.
• Monitor regulatory developments across EU/UK/US and advise executive leadership.
• Support enterprise sales and procurement with privacy and compliance requirements.
• Leverage AI tools to improve workflows and productivity.
• Contribute to building AI capabilities into internal workflows.

Skills

DPO experience

GDPR/UK GDPR

Data privacy governance

AI governance

Regulatory change monitoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Breach management

Policy design & implementation

Education

IAPP/CIPP/E certification

Job description

The Company

Filigran, founded in October 2022, stands out in the cybertech ecosystem for its commitment to revolutionizing cyber threat management with a proactive approach. Its mission is to develop innovative open-source solutions designed to anticipate cyber threats, identify security gaps, and strengthen organizational security posture.

Filigran solutions are now trusted by over 6,000 public and private organizations worldwide.

The Role

We’re looking for a DPO & Compliance Officer to design and implement Filigran’s practical, scalable compliance program.

You will be Filigran’s formal Data Protection Officer, ensuring strong privacy governance across our products, operations and international footprint. You will also lead the day-to-day design and delivery of broader compliance workstreams, including AI governance, cybersecurity regulation, operational resilience, export controls and sanctions.

You will work closely with the General Counsel, CEO, CISO, People, Product, Engineering and Sales teams, helping Filigran meet regulatory expectations in a business-minded attitude.

Your Responsibilities

• Act as Filigran’s Data Protection Officer and primary point of contact for supervisory authorities, including the CNIL, and for data subjects.

• Design and operate Filigran’s privacy program, including ROPAs, DPIAs, privacy by design, retention, data-subject rights, breach assessment and international data transfers.

• Lead the design and operational implementation of compliance controls across AI governance, NIS2, operational resilience, export controls and economic sanctions, under the General Counsel’s leadership.

• Maintain a proportionate compliance framework, including policies, risk mapping, monitoring plans, internal controls and clear reporting.

• Partner with Security to translate regulatory requirements into practical, business-enabling policies and controls that work for a fast-growing cybersecurity company.

• Partner with Security, Product and Engineering to embed privacy, AI and regulatory requirements into product development, vendor management and customer assurance.

• Monitor regulatory developments across the EU, UK, US and other relevant markets, and provide clear recommendations to the General Counsel and executive team.

• Support enterprise sales and procurement by responding to privacy, AI governance and compliance requirements.

• Leverage AI tools and methodologies to boost productivity and impact

• Contribute to building AI capabilities into internal workflows

Who You’ll Work With

You will have a split reporting line:

• For your statutory DPO responsibilities, you will report directly to the CEO. You will have the independence and access to senior management required to carry out those responsibilities.

• For all other compliance responsibilities, you will report to the General Counsel, who retains ultimate accountability for Filigran’s wider compliance programme and material compliance decisions.

You will work closely with the General Counsel, CISO, Security, Product, Engineering, Sales, People and Finance teams. You will lead delivery across the programme while knowing when to escalated decisions and draw on internal or external specialists.

Profile We're Looking For

• 7 to 10 years’ experience as a DPO, data privacy lead or compliance officer, ideally in a fast-growing technology or SaaS company.

• Demonstrable expert knowledge of data protection law and practice. A recognized DPO certification or IAPP qualification, such as CIPP/E, is strongly preferred.

• Experience with a company-wide implementation of the EU AI Act.

• Deep, hands-on command of GDPR and UK GDPR, including ROPAs, DPIAs, breach management, data-subject rights and international transfers.

• Demonstrable ownership of at least two adjacent regulatory programmes, such as AI governance, cybersecurity regulation, operational resilience, export controls or economic sanctions.

• Able to lead unfamiliar workstreams with sound judgement and appropriate specialist internal or external support.

• Comfortable translating complex legal and regulatory requirements into proportionate controls that work operationally.

• Able to build strong relationships and credibility with technical, commercial and executive stakeholders.

• Comfortable working in a remote, async-first environment.

• Autonomy, ownership and team spirit.

• Strong interest in AI and its applications in the privacy & compliance function

• Comfortable working with and leveraging AI-powered tools (LLMs, automation, copilots, etc.) to improve workflows and productivity

• Bonus: experience in cybersecurity, threat intelligence or a technical B2B SaaS environment; fluency in English and French.

Why Join Filigran? More than just a job.

We’re a fast-growing, global, and fully remote company building open-source cybersecurity solutions, increasingly powered by AI, to help defense teams anticipate threats and act faster.

What we believe

We believe we do work that matters, uniting defenders into a global community to make security more open, resilient & collaborative.

How we work

We do work that matters by combining strong engineering standards with emerging technologies, including AI, to move faster and smarter.

What guides us

We make our work matter by building a culture grounded in our CORE values of Cohesion, Openness, Responsibility, and Equity. The principles that guide how we make decisions, treat people, and grow together, especially when no one’s watching.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive pay + equity - everyone shares in our success

• Remote-first, flexible, and balanced - work that fits your life

• Your setup, your choice - pick the gear that works for you

• Twice-a-year gatherings - we meet in person for regional and global offsites to connect, collaborate, and strengthen our culture beyond the screen

Equal Employment Opportunity

We enable cybersecurity through inclusion - from code to culture.

At Filigran, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe diversity of our people make our products and our team stronger. We welcome talent of every background, identity, and lived experience, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

What matters here is what you bring, not what you look like, where you’re from, or how you identify.