Technical Product Manager

Kunai

$110K — $130K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of product management experience, particularly with backend services and distributed systems
  • Strong background in banking or financial services, especially credit decisioning or lending
  • Proven experience leading scrum teams, including managing backlogs and ceremonies
  • Familiarity with AWS and its impact on product decisions
  • Exposure to front-end product development is advantageous, though not essential
  • Preferred engineering background with comfort in technical discussions
  • Excellent stakeholder management abilities across various teams

Responsibilities

  • Own the product roadmap for credit decisioning and acquisition functions
  • Define backend requirements supporting Personal Loans origination
  • Collaborate with engineering on scalable platform-based product design
  • Lead scrum teams for planning and delivery milestones
  • Convert banking requirements into actionable product specifications
  • Align decisioning logic and rules with credit, risk, and compliance stakeholders
  • Balance backlog priorities between new capabilities and platform reliability
  • Utilize data to make informed decisions on product release timing

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Collaborative and creative work culture
  • Environment fostering continuous learning and personal growth
Full Job Description
You'll lead product for credit decisioning, fulfillment, and acquisitions in support of a growing Personal Loans business, owning the backend services and platform capabilities that power how loans get approved and issued.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
  • Own the product roadmap for credit decisioning, fulfillment, and acquisitions capabilities
  • Define requirements for backend services and distributed systems that support Personal Loans origination
  • Partner with engineering to design platform-based products that scale across multiple use cases
  • Lead scrum teams through planning, backlog management, and delivery ceremonies
  • Translate banking and lending requirements into clear, actionable product specs
  • Work with credit, risk, and compliance stakeholders to align on decisioning logic and business rules
  • Prioritize a backlog that balances new acquisition capabilities with platform reliability and scale
  • Make data-informed tradeoffs on what ships now versus what gets sequenced for later
  • Communicate roadmap, progress, and decisions clearly to stakeholders and leadership

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
  • Experience leading product for backend services and distributed systems, ideally platform-based products
  • Banking or financial services industry experience, credit decisioning or lending a strong plus
  • Experience leading scrum teams, including backlog ownership and sprint ceremonies
  • Working understanding of AWS and how it shapes product and technical decisions
  • Some exposure to front end product work is a plus, but not required
  • Engineering background preferred, not required, but comfort going deep on technical detail is important
  • Strong stakeholder management skills across business, risk, and engineering teams
  • A clear communicator who is collaborative, curious, and comfortable in ambiguity


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-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

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