Technical Product Manager

Kunai•Chicago, IL

About The Position

Kunai builds full-stack technology solutions for banks, credit and payment networks, infrastructure providers, and their customers. 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.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

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