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title: 'Senior Privacy & Compliance Manager at Tunnl'
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# Senior Privacy & Compliance Manager at Tunnl

- **Company:** Tunnl
- **Location:** Washington, D.C. Metro Area
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tunnl/0b9885f8-ce82-4389-ab07-02958e690acb/application

**Skills:** CCPA/CPRA, CPA, VCDPA, TCPA, CAN-SPAM, Data inventory management, Data flow mapping, Privacy risk assessments, PIAs/DPIAs, Vendor privacy reviews, Incident response, Excel, PowerPoint, Privacy management platforms, GRC platforms, OneTrust, ISO 42001, AI governance frameworks, ESOMAR, MRA

> Operational backbone of the privacy program, translating legal requirements into processes, managing consumer opt-outs, maintaining data inventories, and ensuring compliance with U.S. privacy laws and state regulations.

## Job description

## About Tunnl

Tunnl is building a future where artificial intelligence enables organizations to connect meaningfully with the people who matter most. We help organizations conduct research at scale, define the right audiences, surface real-time insights, identify optimal communication channels, and measure changing attitudes over time.

Tunnl serves brands, agencies, and advocacy groups alike - organizations navigating complex communications, reputational, and regulatory landscapes. These teams need smarter, faster ways to make audience-informed decisions that stand up to scrutiny and resonate across stakeholder groups. Whether you're building a brand, shaping public opinion, managing risk, or launching a new initiative, Tunnl empowers you to move from insight to impact with clarity & confidence.

## About the Role

Tunnl is looking for a Senior Privacy & Compliance Manager to help build and operate the privacy program supporting our data, audience intelligence, advertising, research, and AI-enabled products.

This is a hands-on privacy operations role for someone who understands how consumer data moves through complex data and advertising ecosystems. We are looking for a privacy professional who has personally built and operated privacy processes—not someone whose experience has been primarily providing legal advice or interpreting policy.

Reporting directly to Tunnl’s CTO and Data Privacy Officer (DPO), you’ll serve as the company’s day-to-day privacy and compliance lead. You’ll work closely with legal counsel and partner directly with Product, Engineering, Data, Security, Sales, and Marketing to turn regulatory requirements into practical processes, controls, and product requirements—and take ownership of getting them implemented.

## What You'll Do

- Own consumer privacy operations, including access, deletion, correction, and opt-out requests and the processes required to propagate those requests across Tunnl’s systems, vendors, and data partners.
- Lead U.S. state privacy and data-broker compliance, including registrations, regulatory requirements, operational controls, and implementation of new state privacy obligations.
- Build and maintain Tunnl’s data inventory and data-flow maps, developing a practical understanding of how consumer and audience data is collected, combined, used, shared, retained, and deleted.
- Lead privacy reviews for products and data, including privacy impact assessments for new products, features, datasets, data partnerships, and uses of consumer data.
- Evaluate vendors and data partners for privacy risk and help establish appropriate controls and requirements.
- Partner directly with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to embed privacy requirements into products and systems without unnecessarily slowing the business.
- Build and continuously improve Tunnl’s privacy compliance program, including policies, procedures, controls, and supporting documentation.
- Plan and execute privacy and compliance audits, test the effectiveness of controls, identify gaps, and drive remediation through completion.
- Work with legal counsel and leadership to assess emerging privacy requirements and risks and translate them into actionable implementation plans.

## What We're Looking For

Required:

- 7–10 years of privacy, data protection, or related compliance experience, with substantial hands-on responsibility for operating privacy programs.
- Meaningful experience with consumer data and data-driven products, ideally in one or more of these areas:
- ad tech, digital advertising, audience targeting, or measurement;
- identity resolution, consumer data, or data brokerage;
- political, advocacy, or voter data;
- retail media or large-scale advertising platforms; or
- survey research, consumer panels, or market research.
- Direct experience managing consumer opt-out, deletion, or access-request workflows.
- Strong working knowledge of U.S. state privacy laws, particularly CCPA/CPRA and the evolving state privacy landscape.
- Experience building or maintaining data inventories and data-flow maps.
- Experience conducting privacy impact assessments, product privacy reviews, vendor assessments, and compliance audits.
- Demonstrated ability to translate regulatory requirements into practical business and technical processes.
- Ability to operate independently and work directly with Product, Engineering, Data, Sales, Marketing, and other business teams.

Preferred:

- Direct experience with state data-broker registrations and compliance requirements.
- Experience with audience activation, identity resolution, advertising technology, measurement, or data licensing.
- Experience building privacy processes in a smaller or fast-growing organization after working within a mature privacy program.
- Experience implementing or operating privacy technology such as Fides, OneTrust, or similar platforms.
- CIPP/US, CIPM, or another relevant privacy certification.

Why You Should Apply:

- Join a team driven by curiosity, teamwork, integrity, and a shared passion for solving big challenges.
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture with regular social and team events.
- Comprehensive benefits with excellent medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options.
- Employer-paid life insurance & short-term & long-term disability, with other voluntary additional coverage available (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity).
- Flexible hybrid work policy.
- Flexible paid vacation plus 80 hours of paid sick leave.
- 10 paid company holidays per year.
- 401(k) plan with 100% match up to 3%, plus 50% match up to 5% (subject to IRS limits).
- Cell phone reimbursement stipend.
- Monthly parking or commuter stipend for VA-based employees.

## About Tunnl

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tunnl is an AI-powered audience intelligence platform that connects research, audience building, targeting, and measurement into a single closed-loop system for advertisers and agencies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-funded; $2.6M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Arlington, Virginia, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Sara Fagen, Brent Seaborn, Alex Lundry

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Audience intelligence, advertising technology, market research, public affairs
- **Target customers**: B2B – advertisers, agencies, public affairs and advocacy organizations, brand marketers
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Empower advertisers and agencies with the audience intelligence they need to reach the right people with their public affairs, issue advocacy, and brand marketing campaigns.” [tunnldata.com/about-us](https://www.tunnldata.com/about-us)

## Products & Services
- **Tunnl Audience Intelligence Platform (SaaS)**: An end-to-end platform that integrates survey research, audience creation, media targeting (including linear TV, CTV, digital), and campaign measurement in a single closed loop. The platform leverages over 6.9 trillion proprietary data points, 23,000+ predictive models, and AI to generate 700 billion predictions per year. [tunnldata.com](https://www.tunnldata.com/)
- **Premier Audience Suite**: Off-the-shelf audience segments covering U.S. policy opinion makers and other high-value targets. [tunnldata.com](https://www.tunnldata.com/)
- **Reach & Frequency / Linear TV Measurement**: A self-serve TV rating feature for linear TV advertisers to plan and measure reach and frequency. [tunnldata.com](https://www.tunnldata.com/)
- **Model Library**: Over 23,000 predictive tools for audience targeting and opinion scoring. [tunnldata.com](https://www.tunnldata.com/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary data moat**: Over 20 years of opinion data scored on every U.S. adult (dating back to 2003), creating a dataset competitors cannot replicate quickly. [tunnldata.com](https://www.tunnldata.com/)
- **Closed-loop platform**: Unlike fragmented approaches (separate vendors for research, audience, media buying, measurement), Tunnl connects everything in one AI-driven system, turning insights directly into actions.
- **AI infrastructure**: 700 billion AI-driven predictions per year, 23,000+ models, and 6.9 trillion data points provide scale and accuracy.
- **Political campaign heritage**: Founders originated from high-stakes political campaigns, giving deep expertise in persuasion and audience movement.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand CTV and linear TV targeting**: The FreeWheel integration aims to accelerate political and public affairs targeting across connected TV for upcoming election cycles.
- **Self-serve capabilities**: Enabling advertisers to plan and measure TV reach without manual intervention.
- **Closed-loop intelligence**: Continue to shorten the cycle from research to measurement, allowing clients to see individual-level opinion shifts and message effectiveness in weeks, not months.
- **Industry diversification**: While rooted in political/public affairs, Tunnl is expanding into brand marketing and other outcome-driven industries.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “smart, curious, and driven” with a collaborative, cross-functional environment. The team values innovation and strategic problem-solving.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Flexible remote work policy is explicitly offered. [tunnldata.com/careers](https://www.tunnldata.com/careers)
- **Perks**:
  - Unlimited vacation days plus a company holiday between Christmas and New Year’s
  - Employer 401k match
  - Paid sick leave
  - Team events (trivia, sports brackets, driving ranges)
- **Growth Opportunities**: 25% headcount growth in the last year, with open roles across business development, research, media strategy, and account management. The company encourages personal and professional development.
- **Engineering & Product**: Technical staff makes up 17% of the team (12 people). The product and engineering teams work on cutting-edge AI and data infrastructure.
- **Employee Rating**: 4.2/5.0 on LinkedIn (based on 4 reviews), with high marks for work-life balance (4.4) and culture (4.3).

## Sources
1. [tunnldata.com](https://www.tunnldata.com/)
2. [tunnldata.com/about-us](https://www.tunnldata.com/about-us)
3. [tunnldata.com/careers](https://www.tunnldata.com/careers)
4. [tunnldata.com/our-team](https://www.tunnldata.com/our-team)
5. [linkedin.com/company/tunnldata](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tunnldata)

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