Technical Product Manager

Kunai

$90K — $130K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Chicago, IL
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years as a Product Manager or Technical Product Manager in migration or modernization initiatives
  • Experience managing application retirement or platform migration
  • Comfortable working directly with engineering teams
  • Familiarity with payments systems or financial technology
  • Experience with Agile delivery practices
  • Strong stakeholder management skills
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure migrations, particularly AWS

Responsibilities

  • Own the roadmap for legacy application disposition
  • Define technical requirements with engineering teams for migration work
  • Track application inventories and disposition status
  • Coordinate migrations to target infrastructure with timelines and dependencies
  • Translate business and compliance requirements into technical tasks
  • Run backlog grooming and sprint planning with engineering teams
  • Align stakeholders on priorities and trade-offs across groups
  • Report progress and risks to program leadership with data

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth within a large-scale modernization program
  • Collaboration with engineering teams on cutting-edge technology
  • Potential for involvement in transformative financial services projects
  • Engagement with diverse stakeholders across technical and business domains
Full Job Description
Youll 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. Youll be part of a professional services team working on systems that support a major payments platform.

WHAT YOULL 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
  • 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 WERE LOOKING FOR
  • 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager or Technical Product Manager, ideally on infrastructure, migration, or modernization initiatives
  • Experience managing application retirement, remediation, or platform migration efforts
  • Comfortable working directly with engineering teams to shape technical scope and sequencing
  • Familiarity with payments systems 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


Minimum Degree Required:

  • Bachelors 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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