Technical Product Manager

Kunai

16h•Hybrid

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. 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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
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
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
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