Technical Product Manager

Kunai

$90K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of product management experience, preferably in technically complex environments
  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures and streaming technologies, especially Kafka
  • Comfortable discussing microservices and cloud environments with engineering teams
  • Exposure to Python programming or collaboration with Python developers
  • Experienced in agile methodologies and backlog ownership with outcome accountability
  • Strong stakeholder management abilities, communicating effectively with technical and senior-level audiences
  • Proven history of launching products, not just planning them
  • Effective communicator who bridges the gap between business and technical teams

Responsibilities

  • Own the product roadmap for high-throughput, event-driven products
  • Translate complex technical functionalities into comprehensible product requirements
  • Collaborate with engineering to prioritize backlog based on technical and business needs
  • Establish and track success metrics for data-driven products post-launch
  • Conduct discovery sessions to identify impactful projects with stakeholders
  • Draft clear specifications and acceptance criteria for development
  • Align engineering, design, data, and business teams around a cohesive product strategy
  • Make informed trade-offs among scope, timeline, and technical feasibility

Benefits

  • Bachelor's degree required, or equivalent experience in technology
  • Opportunity to work on a massive global payment network
  • Engagement with cutting-edge streaming and event-driven technologies
  • Collaborative environment involving cross-functional teamwork
  • Strong emphasis on product delivery outcomes and impact
Full Job Description
As a Technical Product Manager, you'll own the roadmap for products built on high throughput, event-driven systems, working closely with engineers to turn complex technical capabilities into tools that drive a massive global payment network.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
  • Own the product roadmap for systems built on streaming and event-driven architecture
  • Translate technical capabilities like Kafka, microservices, and cloud infrastructure into clear product requirements
  • Partner with engineering to prioritize backlog items based on technical complexity and business value
  • Define success metrics for high throughput data products and track them post launch
  • Run discovery with technical and business stakeholders to identify the highest impact work
  • Write clear specs and acceptance criteria that engineers can build against without back and forth
  • Align cross-functional teams (engineering, design, data, business) around a shared roadmap
  • Make data-informed tradeoffs when scope, timeline, or technical constraints collide
  • Communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and business context to engineers

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
  • 5+ years of product management experience, ideally on platforms with real technical depth
  • Working familiarity with event-driven architecture and streaming systems like Kafka
  • Comfortable talking through microservices, system design, and AWS with an engineering team
  • Some exposure to Python products, whether you've written code yourself or worked closely with those who have
  • Experience running agile ceremonies and owning a backlog with clear accountability for outcomes
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, including with technical and senior audiences
  • A track record of shipping products, not just planning them
  • Curious, clear communicator, comfortable being the translator between business and engineering


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

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