Technical Product Manager

About Kunai

Kunai develops comprehensive technology solutions supporting banks, credit and payment networks, infrastructure providers, and their customers. We focus on transforming financial services by adopting a technology-agnostic, people-centric approach, enabling our clients to modernize and capitalize on emerging trends.

Role Overview

As a Technical Product Manager, you will lead the strategic retirement, remediation, and migration of legacy applications within a large-scale payments modernization program. You will collaborate closely with engineering teams to plan and execute a smooth transition to a robust and well-managed system supporting a major payments platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the roadmap for retiring legacy applications across several workstreams within the payments initiative.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to define technical requirements and prioritize migration and remediation efforts.
• Maintain comprehensive records of application inventories and their statuses, proactively identifying potential risks.
• Coordinate migration activities to new infrastructure, managing timelines and team dependencies.
• Convert business and compliance needs into precise, actionable technical tasks.
• Facilitate backlog grooming, sprint planning, and other Agile delivery ceremonies.
• Align priorities and reconcile trade-offs among business stakeholders, technical teams, and compliance groups.
• Provide data-driven progress reports and risk assessments to program leadership.
• Seek opportunities to streamline and accelerate the legacy system retirement process.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years’ experience as a Product Manager or Technical Product Manager, preferably with infrastructure, migration, or modernization projects.
• Proven track record managing application retirement, remediation, or platform migration initiatives.
• Ability to work directly with engineers to shape technical scope and sequence effectively.
• Experience with payments systems or within financial technology environments.
• Familiar with Agile methodologies, including backlog management and sprint-related activities.
• Strong stakeholder management capabilities, adept at uniting technical and business interests.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure migrations, with AWS experience favored.
• Excellent communication skills to simplify technical complexities for varied audiences and efficiently manage multiple moving pieces.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required. Candidates without a degree must demonstrate three years of specialized training or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each year of college missed, in addition to the minimum required experience.

Company Culture and Benefits

Our team thrives thanks to a collaborative, innovative atmosphere and a focus on continuous development. We offer competitive compensation, professional growth opportunities, and flexible working arrangements to empower our employees. We strive to maintain an environment where every person feels valued, heard, and equipped to advance both personally and professionally while contributing to cutting-edge fintech innovation.