Technical Product Manager
About the job
- Experience leading product for backend services and distributed systems, ideally platform-based products.
- Banking or financial services industry experience, with credit decisioning or lending experience strongly preferred.
- Experience leading scrum teams, including backlog ownership and sprint ceremonies.
- Working understanding of Amazon Web Services and how it shapes product and technical decisions.
- Strong stakeholder management skills across business, risk, and engineering teams.
- Clear communication and the ability to collaborate, remain curious, and operate comfortably in ambiguity.
- A Bachelor’s Degree, or three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible technology work experience for each missing year of college, in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role.
- 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 specifications.
- 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.
- Some exposure to front-end product work.
- An engineering background.
About the company
Kunai is a software development partner that helps established companies and fast-growing startups turn ideas into scalable, shipped digital products. It combines engineers, designers, and product managers to take concepts from napkin sketches to live products used by millions, offering end-to-end execution and long-term partnerships. Unlike some vendors that work in silos, Kunai emphasizes enduring collaboration—evidenced by a long-term relationship with Capital One that led to a partial acquisition and a portfolio spanning four major payment networks, four top-ten US banks, seven Fortune 500 technology companies, and ten unicorn startups. The company’s goal is to turn ideas into reliable, scalable products and maintain lasting relationships that help clients grow."
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
San Ramon, California
Founded
2001
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Kunai’s October 2026 site markets AI, cloud, and data engineering aggressively.
- LinkedIn showed active hiring in March 2026, including cloud and fullstack roles.
- PwC’s network access should expand Fortune 500 banking deals and cross-sell opportunities.
What critics are saying
- PwC integration can erase Kunai’s standalone brand by 2026, collapsing employer identity.
- Consulting work depends on bank budgets; downturns freeze transformations and delay renewals.
- Large firms like Accenture and EPAM commoditize similar AI-cloud engineering, squeezing margins fast.
What makes Kunai unique
- Kunai sells banking-domain product teams, not generic staff augmentation, since 2015.
- Its portfolio spans payment networks, top banks, and unicorns, reinforcing deep fintech credibility.
- PwC’s August 2025 acquisition gives Kunai enterprise distribution and global delivery leverage.
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Benefits
- Fully remote
- Flexible hours & vacation time
- Learning & development
- Health, dental, & vision
- Parental leave
- Career coaching