Technical Product Manager

Kunai, part of the PwC Network; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kunai is seeking a seasoned Product Manager / Technical Product Manager to lead legacy retirement, remediation, and migration efforts within a large-scale payments modernization program in Chicago. You’ll partner with engineering to translate business and payment network requirements into actionable technical work and drive end-to-end delivery.

You will own roadmaps across multiple workstreams, coordinate migrations to target infrastructure (AWS), manage dependencies, and align stakeholders

Qualifications

• Experience as Product Manager or Technical PM in infrastructure or modernization.
• Direct experience with digital payments networks (card, ACH, wire, real-time rails).
• Experience retiring or migrating applications and leading migrations.
• Comfort working with engineering to shape technical scope and sequencing.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for legacy retirement across multiple workstreams in the payments program.
• Define technical requirements with engineering and sequence migration/remediation work.
• Track inventories and disposition status, flag risks early.
• Coordinate migrations to target infrastructure with timelines and dependencies.
• Translate business and compliance requirements into clear technical work.
• Lead backlog grooming, sprint planning, and delivery ceremonies with engineering.

Skills

Product management

Technical product

Agile delivery

Stakeholder mgmt

Payments networks

Cloud migrations

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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.

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.

What You'll Do

• 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

What We’re Looking For

• 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

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-both 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