Technical Product Manager

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.

We are seeking a client-facing Product Manager to join our professional services team and lead product strategy and delivery for banking and fintech clients. In this full-time role, you will partner closely with client stakeholders and internal engineering teams to define, build, test, and launch scalable server-side capabilities and digital products. You will balance product thinking with strong program delivery, ensuring outcomes are measurable, reliable, and production-ready.

What You Will Do:

• Own product outcomes for client engagements
• Lead discovery to clarify business problems, user needs, and success metrics
• Translate goals into a clear roadmap, release plan, and prioritized backlog
• Drive tradeoff decisions across scope, timeline, risk, and technical feasibility

Partner with engineering to build scalable backend solutions

• Collaborate daily with engineers to design and deliver high-performance server-side applications
• Define functional and non-functional requirements including performance, resilience, security, and observability
• Ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned to platform and architectural constraints

Program and delivery leadership

• Run agile delivery rituals and maintain delivery transparency through plans, milestones, and status reporting
• Coordinate cross-functional dependencies across product, engineering, design, data, QA, and client teams
• Identify risks early and drive mitigation plans to keep delivery on track

Testing, quality, and automation

• Define testing strategy in partnership with QA and engineering, including acceptance criteria and test plans
• Champion automation where appropriate (unit, integration, regression, CI/CD validation) to improve release confidence
• Support UAT planning and execution with client stakeholders and ensure readiness for launch

Client engagement and stakeholder management

• Serve as a primary point of contact for product-related decisions and communication
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder reviews, demos, and roadmap discussions
• Build credibility with both business and technical stakeholders and manage expectations effectively

What We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years technical product management experience in a client-facing role, ideally within a professional services, consulting, or banking environment
• Financial services domain knowledge, such as payments, lending, cards, treasury, fraud, risk, regulatory reporting, or digital banking
• Strong program/project delivery skills with demonstrated ownership of timelines, milestones, and cross-team execution
• Proven ability to partner with engineers and demonstrate technical acumen, especially around backend and platform concepts: APIs and microservices, distributed systems and event-driven architecture, databases and data flows, security, performance, reliability, and observability considerations
• Experience defining and supporting testing and automation practices, including acceptance criteria, UAT, and release readiness
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and CI/CD practices
• Familiarity with QA tooling and test automation frameworks and workflows
• Background working with regulated environments and secure SDLC practices
• Certifications such as CSPO/PSPO, PMP, or Agile/Scrum credentials

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: