Principle Product Manager

All Jobs  >  Principle Product Manager Apply Principle Product Manager Fully Remote • United States • Product & Development Apply Job Type Full-time Description  Lead the Way to Intelligent Banking with Us!You might not think about what happens behind the scenes when you check your bank balance or deposit a check from your phone, but we do. Every day.Kinective empowers banks and credit unions to move beyond keeping up with technology to shaping the future of banking. Our platform seamlessly connects the right tools, delivers real-time data, and drives smarter operations for more than 4,000 financial institutions nationwide. We are a fast-growing team built on individual ownership, company-wide collaboration, and setting industry-leading standards. Here, new ideas are encouraged, candid feedback is welcomed, and your growth truly matters as much as the company’s. At Kinective, we are leading the way to intelligent banking together and enjoying the journey along the way.Why This Role MattersEvery product decision at Kinective touches a community bank or credit union — real institutions with real constraints, real regulators, and real members depending on them. This role exists to make sure we never lose sight of that.The Principal Product Manager of our FI Solutions & Platform Strategy is one of the most important bridges between the financial institutions we serve and the product teams building for them. You bring the credibility, judgment, and operational fluency of someone who has lived inside the FI world — and you use it to inform and sharpen the product and platform decisions we make.This role sits at the intersection of client reality and product strategy. You will help validate what we build, strengthen how we position it, and ensure the product organization has the ground-truth FI insight it needs to make better decisions — alongside the SVPs of Product Strategy and Product Marketing who depend on that input.What You’ll OwnFI Engagement & Client ValidationAct as primary source of ground-truth FI insight — ensuring what we build is grounded in how financial institutions actually operate.Play a major, ongoing role in Kinective’s client advisory programs — including the Customer Advisory Board (CAB), executive committee sessions, and client working groups — in close partnership with the Director of Product Marketing who leads these programsValidate major solution initiatives against real FI feedback before launch, ensuring the roadmap reflects what community banks and credit unions actually needTranslate client conversations into clear, actionable insights the product team can act on — and flag gaps between what we’re building and what FIs will actually adoptBuild and maintain direct relationships with FI executives, operations leaders, and technology teams to give Kinective ongoing access to operational ground truthEquip the SVPs of Product Strategy and Product Marketing with the FI insight and context they need to make roadmap, positioning, and go-to-market decisionsCross-Product Platform StrategyContribute to Kinective’s cross-product platform strategy by bringing a client-grounded perspective to how our solutions connect and deliver value togetherContribute to the cross-product roadmap by surfacing integration friction, workflow gaps, and multi-product opportunities identified through direct FI engagementMap end-to-end FI workflows — from digital onboarding to core ledger posting to fraud decisioning — and identify where module handoffs break down for clientsServe as connective tissue between product teams, engineering, and professional services to help prioritize integration improvements that benefit the full platformPressure-test product and roadmap decisions against real FI operations: how institutions are staffed, how decisions get made, what regulatory compliance looks like in practiceAI Solution Strategy & ValidationEnsure our AI...