Senior Product Manager 1
Principal Financial Group
**What You'll Do**
Help us reimagine how we execute on our strategy at Principal! We are looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager to join our Strategic Value Delivery and Enablement (SVDE) team. SVDE provides a variety of services to the organization to improve our achievement of target outcomes. The Senior Product Manager will engage with stakeholders and users to deeply understand the needs, refine the product strategy, set target measurable outcomes, and drive discovery and delivery cycles to enable strategic portfolio management with technology and data solutions.
This role has broad strategic and enterprise reach. They will be a key leader in elevating and socializing the value we realize from improved portfolio management processes and practices.
**Product Strategy:**
+ Ensures relationships and dependencies with other products and teams are clear and works to integrate strategy through shared objectives.
+ Integrates business, customer, user, and partner insights to inform a clear understanding of problems to solve and risks to manage.
**Product Discovery:**
+ Accountable for understanding and defining key business outcomes and requirements for their product.
+ Articulates hypotheses and leads the product team(s) to deeply understand complex problems and solutions through experimentation.
**Product Delivery:**
+ Ensures teams can break down work and synchronize in a manner which enable frequent release of valuable product changes.
+ Understand and facilitate and/or participate in team/agile ceremonies (effective structure & routines).
**Product Assessment:**
+ Ensures every goal-aligned unit of value is measurable and can show progress towards overall product objectives.
+ Monitors and communicates product health, impact of product releases, and progress against product goals.
**Stakeholder Management and Communication:**
+ Ensures key information (strategy, priorities, plans, experiments, results, etc.) regarding the product(s) is understood by stakeholders.
+ Negotiates resolution to conflicts and constraints.
**Who You Are**
+ 6+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education.
+ Passionate about improving internal operations and efficiency by designing products to drive decision making and alignment
+ Excellent emotional intelligence, interpersonal savvy, and transformation leadership
+ Experience with managing ServiceNow, Atlassian, or similar products
+ Proven success managing complex stakeholder expectations in a product environment.
+ Demonstrated success in both discovery and delivery against product outcomes.
+ 3+ years working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced product environment with product or engineering teams and stakeholders.
**Salary Range Information**
Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.
**Salary Range (Non-Exempt expressed as hourly; Exempt expressed as yearly)**
$123000 - $167000 / year
**Time Off Program**
Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness. Employees don’t accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.
**Pension Eligible**
Yes
**Additional Information**
**Work Environments**
This role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical work week) from Des Moines, IA.
**Work Authorization/Sponsorship**
At this time, we're not considering applicants that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For additional information around work authorization needs please use the following links.
**Nonimmigrant Workers (https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary-nonimmigrant-workers) and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants (https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/green-card-for-employment-based-immigrants)**
**Investment Code of Ethics**
For Principal Asset Management positions, you’ll need to follow an Investment Code of Ethics related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household. These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.
**Experience Principal**
At Principal, we value connecting on both a personal and professional level. Together, we’re imagining a more purpose-led future for financial services – and that starts with you. Our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees. And we support our employees the same way we support our customers: with comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being. Check out our careers site (https://www.principal.com/about-us/careers) to learn more about our purpose, values and benefits.
**Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer**
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
**Posting Window**
We will accept applications for 3 full days following the Original Posting Date, after which the posting may remain open or be removed based upon applications received. If we choose to post the job again, we will accept additional applications for at least 1 full day following the Most Recently Posted Date. Please submit applications in a timely manner as there is no guarantee the posting will be available beyond the applicable deadline.
**Original Posting Date**
1/31/2025
**Most Recently Posted Date**
1/31/2025
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