Technical Product Manager

Kunai

Client-facing Product Manager guiding product strategy and delivery for financial services clients. Collaborating closely with stakeholders to define and launch digital products.

Posted 4/27/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsMicroservices

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation
Professional development opportunities
Flexible work arrangements

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Hard Skills & Tools

product managementbackend solutionsAPIsmicroservicesdistributed systemsevent-driven architecturedatabasesautomationtesting strategyCI/CD

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationstakeholder managementrisk managementproblem-solvingfacilitationtransparencycredibility buildingexpectation management