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Technical Product Manager

kunai Chicago, Illinois, United States; Remote - CST


No Relocation

Posted: July 15, 2026

Job Description

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 professional services team working on systems that support a major payments platform.

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
  • 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
  • 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

 

 

Additional Content

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 professional services team working on systems that support a major payments platform.

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
  • 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
  • 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