[Hiring] Technical Product Manager @Kunai

Role Description

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.

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Professional development opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements

Company Description

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 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.