Product Manager 2 - Principal Financial Group

What You'll Do:

We’re looking for a Product Manager 2 to join our Benefits and Protection Wholesale Distribution team. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering valuable and viable solutions in partnership with the product team.

 

You will define and drive the strategy, discovery, and delivery for low to medium complexity products, ensuring alignment with business and enterprise goals. You will collaborate across disciplines, tackle high-value problems, and lead product initiatives to successful outcomes.

 

Product Strategy:

• Partners with Sr. Product Managers; Assistant Director, Director, or Sr. Director of Product Management to ensure product strategy aligns with product family, business, and enterprise strategies.
• Ensures relationships and dependencies with other products and teams are clearly understood; and works to integrate strategy through shared objectives.

Product Discovery:

• Accountable for understanding and defining key business outcomes and requirements for their product.
• Identifies opportunities/problems to solve.
• Articulates hypotheses and leads the product team (design, engineering, and various business roles) in conceptualizing and running experiments.
• Operates and improves an effective parallel discovery and delivery model

Product Delivery:

• Collaborating with technology and non-technology partners. Work to remove impediments that the team may face in the pursuit of value creation.
• Collaborates with team to break down work in a manner which frequent release of valuable product changes.
• Responsible for successful delivery of measurable, goal-aligned value and owns the product roadmap.
• Communicates product releases to stakeholders and partners.

Product Assessment:

• Ensures every goal-aligned unit of value created by the team(s) is measurable and shows progress towards objectives.
• Monitors and communicates product health, impact of product releases, and progress against product goals.

Stakeholder Management and Communication:

• Communicates key information (strategy, priorities, plans, experiments, results, etc.) regarding the product(s) with stakeholders.
• Communicates effectively as part of the product management team supporting a broader product family or portfolio.

Product Leadership

• Serves as a resource to Associate Product Managers as they develop product experience, knowledge, and skills.
• Identifies opportunities to improve the product management practice within their sphere of responsibility; and takes action to continuously improve.

Operating at the intersection of financial services and technology, Principal builds financial tools that help our customers live better lives. We take pride in being a purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all. Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a trusted leader for more than 140 years!

Who You Are:

• • 4+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education
  • Demonstrable experience running one or more products.
  • Strong critical thinking, collaboration, and decision-making skills in a product context.
  • Ability to run multiple priorities and competing workloads effectively.
  • Experience in stakeholder and relationship management within a product environment.
  • Leadership skills with experience influencing and negotiating across teams.
  • Ability to leverage varied perspectives and data (customer, user, or partner) to drive decisions.
  • 2+ years in a collaborative, fast-paced environment with engineering teams and partners.

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out

• • Understanding of insurance distribution channels and products preferred
  • Experience managing complex, data-intensive systems across an enterprise as a Product Manager preferred
  • Knowledge of Salesforce and PowerBI

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:$95200 - $182400 / yearTime 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:YesAdditional Information:

Work Environments

This role offers an in-office and hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek) work arrangement in Des Moines, IA

 

Job Level

We’ll consider talent at the next level with the right experiences and skills.

 

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 and 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 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.Date First Posted (TTF):11/27/2024Latest Post Date: Careers - US:11/27/2024