Privacy Engineering Lead

Menlo Ventures; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 277,000 - 364,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Equity Package

401(k) with 3% Employer Match & Roth 0

Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance

11 Paid Holidays + Unlimited PTO & S

16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave

Creative Education Stipend

Generous Commuter Allowance

In-Office Lunch (5 days per week)

Job summary

Suno, the AI music platform, seeks a Privacy Engineering Lead to build Suno's privacy and AI governance from scratch. You will define data handling policies, govern data across platforms, and scale a privacy engineering team while partnering with Legal and Product.

You will own data discovery, permissions mapping, and governance controls, ensuring consent, access, and data sharing compliance as Suno grows.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years hands-on software engineering experience.
• Deep experience in privacy engineering or data governance (GDPR/CCPA).
• Experience as an engineering manager or Staff+ ready to grow into people management.

Responsibilities

• Build the policy foundations for data handling and AI governance in collaboration with Legal.
• Own data discovery, classification, and permissions mapping across product and analytics systems.
• Design and operate governance controls across products, data platforms, models, and agents.
• Lead verified user rights operations (access, correction, deletion, consent) with Product on self-service tools.
• Hire and grow a dedicated privacy engineering team to scale this work.
• Make responsible data handling part of Suno's model and feature development.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Privacy engineering

Engineering leadership

Job description

About Suno

We're building the world's first creative entertainment platform, where the entire world can feel the joy and fulfillment of making music. Music is for everyone: Our users include everyone from grandmothers creating songs for their loved ones, to Grammy winners using Suno Studio, our power tool, to make the most popular hits in the world.

Building the future of entertainment requires ambition. The pace is fast, the problems are hard, and the work demands ownership and intensity. For the right people, it’s incredibly rewarding: a chance to shape a new medium, work with a small team that cares deeply about quality, make music, drink too much coffee, and build something that millions of people use to express themselves in ways that were never before possible.

Suno is the fastest growing consumer entertainment company and the leader in AI music. We are backed by leading investors including Bond Capital, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, IVP, Forerunner, Union Square Ventures, Alkeon, Quiet, Matrix Partners, Schroders Capital and, NVentures (venture arm of NVIDIA).

About the Role

We're looking for a Privacy Engineering Lead to build Suno's privacy and AI governance function from scratch. You'll set the technical direction for how we handle data and permissions across our platform, models, and agents — building the infrastructure that enforces policy at the point of use and verifies outcomes like retention and deletion. You'll partner closely with Legal and Product while hiring and growing your own engineering team to scale this work across the company.

What You'll Do

• Build the policy foundations for how Suno handles data, permitted uses, and AI, in partnership with Legal.

• Own data discovery, classification, and permissions mapping across our product, analytics, and vendor systems.

• Design and operate governance controls across our products, data platforms, models, and agents, enforcing consent, access, and data‑sharing rules.

• Lead verified user rights operations, including access, correction, deletion, and consent management, partnering with Product on self‑service tools.

• Hire and grow a dedicated privacy engineering team, giving this work the focused ownership it needs to scale.

• Help make responsible data handling part of how Suno builds every new model and feature, in service of making creative fulfillment a daily reality for everyone.

What You'll Need

Must-Haves

• 8-10 years hands‑on software engineering experience, with the technical depth to help build and ship enforcement infrastructure yourself, not only define policy for others to implement.

• Deep experience in privacy engineering or data governance, including working familiarity with regulatory frameworks like GDPR and CCPA.

• Experience as an engineering manager who has maintained real technical depth, or as a Staff+ engineer ready to grow into people management.

Nice‑to‑Haves

• Experience with AI/ML governance, model evaluation pipelines, or generative AI systems.

• Background at a consumer tech company at scale, or one with a significant European user base.
• Prior experience as an early or founding privacy/governance hire at a growing company.

Work Location Policy

This role is expected to work from the designated Suno office 5 days a week, per Suno's company policy. Full-time employees will receive competitive equity packages, and comprehensive benefits. The actual base salary offered may vary depending on location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

Additional Notes

Applicants must be eligible to work in the US.

Perks & Benefits for Full-Time Employees

• Company Equity Package

• 401(k) with 3% Employer Match & Roth 401(k)

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (PPO w/ HSA & FSA options)

• 11 Paid Holidays + Unlimited PTO & Sick Time

• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave

• Creative Education Stipend

• Generous Commuter Allowance

• In-Office Lunch (5 days per week)

Compensation:

• The annual salary range for this role is $276,960 - $363,510 + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision, and 401k)

Suno is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis under provincial, federal, state, and local laws, regulations, or ordinances. We will also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of state and local laws, including the Massachusetts Fair Chance in Employment Act, NYC Fair Chance Act, LA City Fair Chance Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.