What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Product Manager position at kunai?
Kunai builds full-stack technology solutions for banks, credit and payment networks, infrastructure providers, and their customers. Together, we are changing the world’s relationship with financial services. At Kunai, we help our clients modernize, capitalize on emerging trends, and evolve their business for the coming decades by remaining tech-agnostic and human-centered.
You'll drive the retirement, remediation, and migration of legacy applications across a large-scale payments modernization program, working closely with engineering teams to plan and execute the path to a stable, well-managed end state. You'll be part of a professional services team working on systems that support a major payments platform.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own the roadmap for legacy application disposition across multiple workstreams in the payments program
- Work with engineering teams to define technical requirements and sequence migration and remediation work
- Track application inventories and disposition status, flagging risks before they become blockers
- Coordinate migrations to target infrastructure, including timelines and dependencies between teams
- Translate business and compliance requirements into clear, actionable technical work
- Run backlog grooming, sprint planning, and other delivery ceremonies with engineering teams
- Align stakeholders across business, technical, and compliance groups on priorities and trade-offs
- Report progress and risk to program leadership with data to back it up
- Identify opportunities to simplify or accelerate the legacy retirement process
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 5 years of experience as a Product Manager or Technical Product Manager, ideally on infrastructure, migration, or modernization initiatives
- Experience managing application retirement, remediation, or platform migration efforts
- Comfortable working directly with engineering teams to shape technical scope and sequencing
- Familiarity with payments systems or financial services technology environments
- Experience with Agile delivery practices, including backlog management and sprint ceremonies
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience aligning technical and business groups
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure migrations, ideally AWS
- A clear communicator who can translate technical complexity for non-technical audiences and stay organized across many moving parts
Our success over the past 20 years is rooted in our exceptional team, which thrives in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.
We are proud to offer our employees a range of benefits, including competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, and flexible work arrangements, all designed to help them thrive. As we continue to expand, we remain committed to cultivating an environment where people feel valued, have a voice, and are given the tools to grow—both personally and professionally—while pushing the boundaries of innovation in the fintech industry.
Minimum Degree Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree, in lieu of a degree, demonstrating in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college is required