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Zania

AI-powered GRC automation platform

Growth Marketing Lead - Growth & Demand Generation

Full-Time
$120k - $180k/yr+ Equity + Relocation support
Mid
Bachelor's
Palo Alto, CA, USA+1 moreMore locations: San Francisco, CA, USA
In PersonBased in or willing to relocate to Palo Alto; in-person five days a week.
Growth & MarketingGrowth Marketing
Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience in B2B growth marketing, demand generation, or Account-Based Marketing, ideally at a high-growth Software-as-a-Service or cybersecurity startup.
  • A proven track record of independently generating enterprise pipeline and directly impacting annual recurring revenue.
  • Deep familiarity with modern marketing stacks such as HubSpot, Salesforce, Apollo, Clearbit, and LinkedIn Campaign Manager.
  • Ability to craft compelling, credible written messaging for senior enterprise buyers.
  • Ability to operate independently as a full-stack marketer, writing copy, building lists, and launching campaigns.
  • Understanding of how senior enterprise leaders buy, particularly security and risk executives.
  • Ability to analyze customer acquisition cost, conversion rates, and funnel metrics.
Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and execute inbound and outbound multi-channel demand generation campaigns that drive qualified pipeline and revenue.
  • Build personalized Account-Based Marketing campaigns to break into Fortune 500 accounts.
  • Test channels, including LinkedIn ads, bespoke events and dinners, direct mail, and partner marketing; scale effective approaches and stop ineffective ones.
  • Partner directly with the founders and founding sales team to optimize the funnel from first contact through closed-won.
  • Concept, create, and launch campaigns on short timelines without relying on agencies or long approval chains.
  • Prepare a one-page brief proposing a highly targeted campaign to secure meetings with five Fortune 500 CISOs within 30 days, describing the channel, hook, budget, and follow-up strategy.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in B2B growth marketing, demand generation, or Account-Based Marketing at a high-growth Software-as-a-Service or cybersecurity startup is preferred.

About the company

Zania provides an AI-powered GRC platform that uses autonomous AI agents to automate security, privacy, and compliance tasks for enterprises. The platform is delivered as a B2B SaaS offering, enabling clients to subscribe and access AI agents, workflows, and dashboards that streamline risk assessments and compliance processes. The agents perform work across regulatory mapping, evidence collection, policy alignment, and security posture reviews, reducing manual effort and cutting assessment timelines from months to minutes. Zania differentiates itself with deep AI-security expertise from the founding team (including experience at major tech companies) and a focus on automating complex governance and regulatory tasks for regulated industries, rather than relying on generic automation. The main goal is to help enterprises simplify, accelerate, and maintain ongoing governance, risk, and compliance by automating tasks and workflows with AI agents.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$18M

Headquarters

East Palo Alto, California

Founded

2023

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What believers are saying

  • February 2026 launch promises under-one-week assessments, 90% less manual effort, and global availability.
  • Zania claims customers including Plaid, Stanford, Grant Thornton, and Big Four firms.
  • Expanding from 10% to 100% vendor coverage directly attacks a painful enterprise compliance bottleneck.

What critics are saying

  • ServiceNow, OneTrust, and Archer can copy AI features and bundle into existing suites.
  • Autonomous assessments face buyer pushback after one false negative triggers audit failures by 2027.
  • Small team and single-product focus create existential platform risk if TPRM adoption stalls.

What makes Zania unique

  • Autonomous TPRM replaces questionnaires with agent-led vendor assessments end-to-end, launched February 10, 2026.
  • Founded by Microsoft, Meta, and Airbnb veterans, Zania sells audit-traceable enterprise GRC automation.
  • NEA-backed $18 million Series A and 10x ARR growth signal early product-market fit.

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Headcount

6 month growth

15%

1 year growth

15%

2 year growth

10%
Business Wire
Feb 10th, 2026
Zania launches autonomous AI platform to slash third-party risk assessments from 8 weeks to under 1 week

Zania, an AI platform for governance, risk and compliance, has launched Zania Autonomous TPRM, which it claims is the first platform to shift third-party risk management from human-led processes to agent-led execution. The system autonomously executes vendor assessments from intake to final determination, including evidence collection and control evaluation. Early deployments across Fortune 500 companies and Big 4 firms report assessment timelines compressed from over eight weeks to under one week, with up to 90% reduction in manual effort and 80% lower costs per assessment. The platform enables organisations to scale coverage from 10% to 100% of vendors without additional headcount. Founded by leaders from Microsoft, Meta and Airbnb, Zania addresses a market expected to reach nearly $30 billion by 2033. The platform is now available globally.

Yahoo Finance
Feb 10th, 2026
The Vendor Questionnaire is Dead: Zania Launches Autonomous Third-Party Risk Management

The vendor questionnaire is dead: Zania launches autonomous third-party risk management. Business Wire New AI agents execute risk assessments end-to-end, enabling CISOs to achieve 100% vendor coverage without adding headcount. PALO ALTO, Calif., February 10, 2026-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Zania, the agentic AI platform for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), today announced the launch of Zania Autonomous TPRM. This is the first platform that shifts third-party risk management from human-led processes with AI assistance to agent-led execution with human oversight. Every CISO knows the math: a growing vendor ecosystem, a small risk team, and not enough hours to assess every third party. The result is a coverage gap that turns unassessed vendors into blind spots. This is exactly the kind of risk that shows up in board audit committees and post-breach investigations. Unlike AI copilots that assist humans with drafting or summarization, Zania's autonomous agents execute the assessment from intake to final determination. Agents scope vendors by business context, collect evidence from trust centers and public disclosures, coordinate vendor follow-ups, evaluate controls, and produce audit-ready output with a complete evidence trail. This enables teams to expand coverage without adding headcount. Third-party risk continues to be a primary driver of costly data breaches, with over 30% of all breaches now involving a supply chain partner [1]. As vendor ecosystems expand, GRC teams are caught in a persistent "coverage gap," able to deeply assess only their most critical vendors, leaving the rest as a growing blind spot. The global TPRM market is expected to reach nearly $30 billion by 2033 [2], yet legacy tools have failed to solve this core challenge, focusing on workflow organization rather than task execution. Early Results In early deployments across Fortune 500 enterprises and Big 4 firms, organizations using Zania report: * Assessment timelines compressed from 8+ weeks to under 1 week * Up to 90% reduction in manual assessment effort * Up to 80% lower cost per assessment * Coverage scaled from 10% to 100% of in-scope vendors without increasing headcount From the CEO "For years, 'AI in GRC' has meant a better autocomplete, such as drafting a response, summarizing a report, or helping with a single task. That's not what enterprises need. They need the assessment done, defensibly, at scale, without tripling headcount." "We built Autonomous TPRM to execute the work end to end. It is grounded in evidence, aligned to how risk teams actually operate, and traceable enough to survive an audit. The question isn't whether AI can help with GRC. It's whether your AI can do the job." - Shruti Gupta, Founder & CEO, Zania

FinSMEs
Sep 30th, 2025
Zania Closes $18M Series A Funding

Zania closes $18M Series A funding.

Morningstar
Sep 30th, 2025
Zania Secures $18M to Transform Compliance

Zania, an AI company for security governance, risk, and compliance, raised $18 million in a Series A round led by NEA. The funding will help Zania expand its engineering and go-to-market teams and accelerate its AI platform. Zania's AI agents automate complex compliance tasks, achieving results up to 30× faster and at 90% lower cost. The company has seen 10x ARR growth in six months and secured clients like Plaid and Stanford University.

Business Wire
Sep 30th, 2025
Zania Raises $18M Series A Led by NEA to Reinvent Enterprise Risk & Compliance with AI Agents

Zania raises $18M Series A led by NEA to reinvent Enterprise risk & compliance with AI agents.