Technical Product Manager
Kunai
Salary undisclosed
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Description
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 team working on systems that support a major payments platform. Given the technical complexity of the systems involved, hands-on experience with digital payment networks is essential to defining business requirements accurately and engaging with engineering teams.
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, drawing on direct knowledge of payment network functionality
- 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
- Direct experience with digital payment networks (e.g., card, ACH, wire, or real-time payment rails) is required to accurately define and validate business requirements
- Experience managing application retirement, remediation, or platform migration efforts
- Comfortable working directly with engineering teams to shape technical scope and sequencing
- Experience in payments 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
Benefits
- professional development
About this role
Kunai is seeking a Technical Product Manager to lead the modernization of legacy payment systems for a major financial platform. This role centers on managing the retirement, remediation, and migration of aging applications across multiple workstreams—work that demands both strategic roadmap ownership and hands-on collaboration with engineering teams. You'll own application inventories, coordinate complex migrations across infrastructure, translate compliance and business requirements into technical scope, and keep stakeholders aligned across business, technical, and compliance functions as priorities and trade-offs emerge.
The ideal candidate brings at least five years of product management experience, with direct exposure to digital payment networks (card, ACH, wire, or real-time rails) and a track record managing application retirement or platform migration efforts. You'll need comfort working directly with engineering to shape technical sequencing, familiarity with cloud infrastructure moves (AWS preferred), and the ability to run Agile ceremonies while managing sprawling dependencies and risks. Strong stakeholder management is essential—you'll be translating technical complexity for non-technical audiences and keeping multiple moving parts organized.
This is a full-time, in-office role in Chicago. A bachelor's degree is required, or equivalent specialized training and progressive work experience in technology.
Typical pay for this role
$140,000
Typical range: $120,000 to $140,000
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