Gerry Hanratty

I'm a senior product manager based in Dublin. Most of my career has been spent in places where the constraints are real: regulated energy retail, B2B2C fintech, and early-stage companies where the next three months decide everything.

At SSE Airtricity I owned online sales and payments, growing the digital channel several times over and optimising payment flows. I then built Staypal, a B2B2C marketplace that sold experiences through hotels and Airbnb hosts and reached €500k ARR across the UK and Ireland — which taught me more about pricing, distribution and saying no than any role since. Today I'm working on product at Yety, a B2B2C instalment payments platform for travel.

I like to take the B2B SaaS playbook and adapt it to different verticals, including payments and travel.

What I bring to a team is the machinery around a good product: knowing how it's actually used, a single intake that sales and customers can see, a roadmap that says what we won't do, and a commercial model that moves when the product gets better.

AI tooling is now genuinely part of how I work rather than a novelty. I use Claude Code to read unfamiliar codebases and to draft the unglamorous artefacts, and Lovable to get something clickable in front of people before anyone writes a spec. The Claude Rundowns on this site are what I've learned doing that in real engagements.

I like working close to the team, in your tools, on your cadence. I'd rather be in the standup than sending a deck. And I'd rather tell you early that a piece of work isn't worth doing than deliver it well.

Most of my work is fractional — two days a week inside a startup's product team. If you're hiring for a permanent role and think there's a fit, email me at hello@gerryhanratty.com.