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ZeroRisk

Cyber risk management for merchant portfolios

Head of Product

Full-Time
No salary listed
Senior, Expert
Dublin, Ireland
Remote
ProductProduct Management

About the job

Requirements
  • The candidate must have 7+ years of experience in product management within B2B SaaS environments.
  • The candidate must have proven experience operating at a senior level with executive stakeholders and enterprise clients.
  • The candidate must have a strong track record of leading product execution in distributed or remote teams.
  • The candidate must have a deep understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and product delivery frameworks.
  • The candidate must have experience establishing or scaling product management processes.
  • The candidate must have strong stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
  • The candidate must have strong analytical capabilities and experience driving data-informed decisions.
  • The candidate must have hands-on experience with JIRA, Confluence, and Figma.
Responsibilities
  • Lead the day-to-day execution of the product function and ensure delivery aligns with strategic objectives.
  • Own and evolve product management practices to support scale, efficiency, and quality.
  • Oversee Agile/Scrum processes and ensure consistent delivery across distributed teams.
  • Partner with the Chief Product Officer to translate product vision and strategy into actionable roadmaps.
  • Work with executive leadership to align product priorities with broader business objectives.
  • Contribute to strategic planning and product direction.
  • Work directly with key enterprise customers.
  • Lead product alignment on critical client projects and ensure delivery meets customer expectations and internal strategic goals.
  • Translate customer requirements into scalable product capabilities.
  • Act as a senior product representative in customer discussions where required.
  • Collaborate with Engineering leadership, including the Chief Technology Officer, to align product and technical delivery.
  • Work with Design, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success leaders to ensure cohesive product development and go-to-market execution.
  • Act as a central point of coordination across functions.
  • Establish and scale product management processes and governance.
  • Improve delivery predictability, resource planning, and execution discipline.
  • Drive continuous improvement across the product lifecycle.
  • Lead customer discovery and feedback initiatives to inform product direction.
  • Ensure product decisions are grounded in customer needs and market dynamics.
  • Balance immediate client delivery requirements with longer-term product strategy.
  • Define, implement, and track key product and growth metrics.
  • Embed a data-driven approach to prioritisation and decision making.
  • Provide clear reporting and insights to leadership stakeholders.
  • Champion the use of modern tools, including AI, to improve product workflows and delivery efficiency.
  • Identify opportunities to enhance speed and quality through automation and improved tooling.
  • Establish clear product operating rhythms and delivery processes.
  • Build strong working relationships with key enterprise customers and internal stakeholders.
  • Ensure transparency and alignment on roadmap and priorities.
  • Improve delivery predictability and reduce rework.
  • Successfully support delivery of key enterprise customer initiatives.
  • Strengthen requirements quality and execution discipline.
  • Implement data-driven frameworks for product decision making.
  • Deliver strategic product initiatives aligned to customer and business needs.
  • Maintain strong alignment across executive and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Build scalable product processes to support continued growth.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in payments, fintech, or cybersecurity domains.
  • Experience working with large enterprise customers and complex integrations.
  • Familiarity with AI tools and their application in product management.

About the company

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ZeroRisk

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ZeroRisk helps banks and payment providers manage cyber risk across large merchant portfolios. Its platform aggregates risk monitoring, PCI/compliance, education, guided remediation and protection services in one view so acquirers and processors can see portfolio risk and turn compliance into operational value. It differentiates itself through portfolio-wide visibility and by combining monitoring, compliance, education, and protection for large merchant portfolios rather than offering only point tools. The company aims to help financial institutions manage cyber risk at scale and support global expansion through ongoing product development and deployment.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$14M

Headquarters

Dalkey, Ireland

Founded

2023

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What believers are saying

  • MiddleGame Ventures led ZeroRisk's $10 million Series A on September 9, 2026.
  • ZeroRisk expects revenue to triple in 2026 as deployments replace contracted pilots.
  • Longford recruitment targets 80 jobs, expanding support capacity for global customers.

What critics are saying

  • Annual PCI workflows stay commoditized, letting Vanta, SEON, and LegitScript undercut pricing.
  • By 2027, incumbent processors bundle merchant risk into core payments, commoditizing ZeroRisk into a feature.
  • If deployment slips, ZeroRisk's 2026 revenue tripling narrative collapses and hiring overshoots demand.

What makes ZeroRisk unique

  • ZeroRisk unifies merchant cyber monitoring, PCI compliance, remediation, and protection in one workflow.
  • Clients include Bank of America, Global Payments, Checkout.com, and Trust Payments.
  • It gives payment providers portfolio-wide merchant visibility across Europe and North America.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Flexible Work Hours

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

21%

1 year growth

16%

2 year growth

21%
Silicon Republic
Sep 9th, 2026
Irish cyber and compliance company ZeroRisk raises $10m.

Irish cyber and compliance company ZeroRisk raises $10m. 9 Sep 2026 From left: Patrick Pinschmidt, MiddleGame; Gary Nolan, ZeroRisk; Niall McEvoy, Elkstone. Image: ZeroRisk The company's platform aims to help payment processors and retailers manage and reduce cyber risk. Irish cybersecurity and compliance company ZeroRisk has raised $10m in a Series A funding round led by MiddleGame Ventures with participation from existing investor Elkstone. The company aims to help payment processors and retailers manage and reduce cyber risk by uniting "risk monitoring, compliance, education, guided remediation and protection services in one platform". It offers payment processors "a single view of cyber risk across the hundreds of thousands of retailers using their payment processing technology", and provides individual retailers with "clear guidance on the risks that matter to their business and the steps they can take to address them", according to the company. ZeroRisk said the new funding would be used to support its expansion globally, further its product development, and increase operational capacity to deploy the platform across large merchant portfolios of major payment providers. Co-founder and CEO Gary Nolan said: "Payment companies have spent years trying to manage merchant risk through annual compliance exercises. "That is no longer enough. Their customers are dealing with scams, credential theft, website vulnerabilities and attacks on devices every day. "ZeroRisk has moved from proving the product to deploying it at scale. This investment will allow us to expand the team, deepen the platform and support the payment providers that have chosen to build their next-generation of merchant cyber programmes with us." The company works with European and North American customers including Bank of America, Global Payments, Checkout.com and Trust Payments. Patrick Pinschmidt, a co-managing partner at MiddleGame Ventures, said: "The ZeroRisk team brings a unique combination of commercial and technical expertise, reinforced by working hand-in-hand with leading payment providers." ZeroRisk, which was founded in 2023 and has Irish operations in Dublin and Longford, and a US office in Atlanta, said it "expects to grow revenue threefold in 2026 as contracted programmes move into deployment and its international customer base grows". The Irish company, co-founded by Nolan, Francesco Consiglio and Marco Borza, raised $4m in February 2025 in a round led by Elkstone, whose head of venture Niall McEvoy said of the new funding: "The commercial progress in a short period of time has been impressive, and this Series A funding round further validates investor confidence that ZeroRisk can deliver transformational change in the sector globally."

PR Newswire
Sep 9th, 2026
ZeroRisk raises $10 million to scale merchant cybersecurity platform.

ZeroRisk raises $10 million to scale merchant cybersecurity platform. Sep 09, 2026, 01:30 ET Funding will accelerate global expansion, product development and the deployment of ZeroRisk across major payment providers. ZeroRisk aims to dominate the emerging risk orchestration segment in the payment processing market. DUBLIN, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - ZeroRisk the Irish cybersecurity company helping payment providers manage and reduce cyber risk across their merchant portfolios, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2023, ZeroRisk gives banks and payment providers a single view of cyber risk across their merchant portfolios. It brings together risk monitoring, compliance, education, guided remediation and protection services in one platform. Merchants receive clear guidance on the risks that matter to their business and the steps they can take to address them. The round was led by MiddleGame Ventures, with participation from existing investor Elkstone. The investment will support ZeroRisk's expansion globally, further product development and the operational capacity needed to deploy the platform across large merchant portfolios. ZeroRisk is already working with payment businesses including Bank of America, Global Payments, Checkout.com and Trust Payments. The company expects to grow revenue threefold in 2026 as contracted programmes move into deployment and its international customer base grows. Merchant cyber programs have traditionally focused on annual compliance exercises. The risks facing smaller businesses now extend well beyond compliance and include scams, stolen credentials, website vulnerabilities, attacks on connected devices and the ability to recover when something goes wrong. ZeroRisk also helps payment processors turn their compliance responsibilities into revenue opportunities through the distribution of value-adding services to merchants. Speaking today, Gary Nolan, co-founder and CEO of ZeroRisk, said: "Payment companies have spent years trying to manage merchant risk through annual compliance exercises. That is no longer enough. Their customers are dealing with scams, credential theft, website vulnerabilities and attacks on devices every day. Our job is to give payment providers visibility across the portfolio and give merchants a clear route to action." "ZeroRisk has moved from proving the product to deploying it at scale. This investment will allow us to expand the team, deepen the platform and support the payment providers that have chosen to build their next-generation of merchant cyber programmes with us." The company currently operates in Ireland and the United States, with offices in Dublin (Ireland), Atlanta (USA) and Longford (Ireland). Patrick Pinschmidt, Co-Managing Partner at MiddleGame Ventures, added: "The ZeroRisk team brings a unique combination of commercial and technical expertise, reinforced by working hand-in-hand with leading payment providers. As former operators in the space, they understand the fundamental pain points firsthand and have built technology that transforms a critical financial services workflow, making it more intuitive and seamless for payment providers and merchants alike. We're thrilled to be partnering with Gary and the team as they build the new standard for this critical function." Niall McEvoy, Head of Venture at Elkstone, said: "Elkstone first backed ZeroRisk at seed stage when Gary and the team presented their compelling vision on where the merchant cybersecurity and compliance space was heading. The commercial progress in a short period of time has been impressive, and this Series A funding round further validates investor confidence that ZeroRisk can deliver transformational change in the sector globally. We are pleased to deepen our support alongside new investor MiddleGame Ventures." Notes to Editor About ZeroRisk ZeroRisk provides merchant cybersecurity and compliance technology to the payments and financial services industry. Its platform is used by acquirers, processors, PayFacs and financial institutions to monitor risk across their merchant portfolios and help merchants take practical steps to protect their businesses. ZeroRisk was founded in Ireland in 2023 and serves customers in Europe and North America. Issued on behalf of ZeroRisk by Gordon MRM

PR Newswire
Sep 9th, 2026
ZeroRisk raises $10M to scale cybersecurity platform for payment merchants

ZeroRisk, an Irish cybersecurity company supporting payment service providers in managing cyber risks within their merchant portfolios, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The round was led by MiddleGame Ventures, with participation from existing investor Elkstone. Founded in 2023, ZeroRisk provides banks and payment service providers with comprehensive oversight of cyber risks across their merchant portfolios. The platform combines risk monitoring, compliance, training, guided remediation, and protection services. The company already works with payment service providers including Bank of America, Global Payments, Checkout.com, and Trust Payments. ZeroRisk expects to triple its revenue in 2026 as contracted programmes enter implementation phase and its international customer base grows. The funding will support ZeroRisk's global expansion, product development, and operational capacity required for deploying the platform across large merchant portfolios. The company currently operates in Ireland and the United States, with offices in Dublin, Atlanta, and Longford.

Iconic Newspapers
Feb 17th, 2026
'Huge boost for Longford' as Irish cybersecurity company ZeroRisk to create 80 new jobs

'Huge boost for Longford' as Irish cybersecurity company ZeroRisk to create 80 new jobs. ZeroRisk, an Irish start-up, is setting up a new facility in Longford at the Axis Centre. Gary Nolan is CEO and co-founder oof ZeroRisk Longford Live reporter 17 Feb 2026 4:33 PM [email protected] In a major boost for Longford, it has been announced that Irish cybersecurity company ZeroRisk is to create 80 new jobs. ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW ZeroRisk, an Irish start-up, which is setting up a new facility in Longford at the Axis Centre, has unveiled plans to employ up to 80 people in the area in the coming year. Taoiseach Micheál Martin said creating over 80 new jobs 'is a huge boost to Longford and the surrounding region'. ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW Mr Martin added, "ZeroRisk's expansion of its Irish operations with a new, dedicated European support centre is a vote of confidence in our highly skilled workforce and our focus on supporting businesses to invest in Ireland." The company has begun a major recruitment drive in the Longford region and is interested in applicants with language skills to support its global customer base. ZeroRisk provides SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) to some of the largest financial institutions in the world. ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW The company was set up in 2023 by Gary Nolan and has offices in Dublin and Georgia in the United States. The company said the jobs being advertised will play a key part in delivering onboarding, compliance, and cyber risk services to merchants and financial institutions operating in multiple countries and languages from across Europe and further afield. ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW The company's growth has been driven by increasing demand from financial institutions seeking more effective ways to manage compliance and cyber risk across large merchant portfolios. The company's platform enables acquiring banks and payment providers to automate compliance, monitor cyber threats in real time, and gain actionable insights into merchant risk.

Silicon Republic
Feb 6th, 2025
ZeroRisk raises $4m, creates 40 jobs

ZeroRisk, a Dublin-based risk and compliance platform, has raised $4m to create 40 new roles in data science, user experience, product, engineering, and sales and marketing. The funding will help expand its global presence, especially in the US, and enhance its merchant software delivery. The investment round was led by Elkstone, with ZeroRisk aiming to set new standards in risk management for acquiring banks.