Product Manager 2

We’re building a system that helps our leaders make better technology investment decisions—faster and with confidence. 

As a Product Manager on Portfolio & Application Intelligence, you’ll work at the intersection of data, architecture, and business strategy to turn fragmented, often incomplete information into decision-ready insights. 

This is more than a reporting product. It’s a decision product—where success is measured by whether teams can confidently decide what to invest in, modernize, or retire. 

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys diving into complex, detail‑heavy problem spaces and turning them into clear, usable experiences—motivated by helping teams make better decisions, not just delivering features. 

You’ll work closely with architects, engineering, and data partners to bring structure to complexity and create products that are both deeply informed and easy to use. 

What You’ll Do 

Own the Portfolio & Application Intelligence Product Space (Core) 

Key areas of impact: 

• Enable better decisions: Help teams and leaders move from debating what’s true to deciding what to do by partnering across data owners, architects, and stakeholders to bring structure, trust, and direction to incomplete but maturing data.  

• Connect the bigger picture: Partner across architecture, engineering, and business stakeholders to bring together applications, cost, risk, dependencies, and business context 

• Build trust in data: Improve visibility, quality, and shared understanding of the portfolio with insights that foster action 

• Continuously improve how we work: Reduce manual effort and ambiguity through automation, AI, and smarter workflows 

• Design with the user in mind: Bring strong customer empathy and UX instincts to shape intuitive experiences that help users quickly understand complex information and make confident decisions 

Support the Broader Product Family 

• Partner closely with product leadership to support the larger product family as it evolves 

• Ensure continuity and reinforcement across products within the decision value stream to drive aligned outcomes 

Success in this role looks like: 

• Leaders can confidently decide where to invest vs. retire without repeated debate 

• Teams trust portfolio data without revalidation 

• Dependencies and risks are surfaced earlier in decision-making 

• Decision-making becomes faster and more consistent across teams 

About Principal 

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. 

As Principal continues to modernize its systems, this role will offer you an exciting opportunity to build solutions that will directly impact our long-term strategy and tech stack, all while ensuring that our products are robust, scalable, and secure!

• 4+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through the following: work experience, military experience, or education 

• 2+ years working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced product environment with product or engineering teams and stakeholders 

• Demonstrable ability to think strategically, collaborate effectively, and make confident decisions in a product-driven environment 

• Skilled at integrating diverse perspectives and using customer, user, and partner insights to drive informed decisions 

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out 

• Take ownership and initiative: Comfortable navigating complex environments where ownership and information may evolve—and able to help bring clarity and alignment over time 

• Platform/centralized enterprise experience navigating and unifying diverse stakeholders 

The following locations are examples of market-specific salary ranges across different geographies. 

• Wichita, KS: $104,400 - $122,400 / year
• Des Moines, IA: $110,200 - $129,200 / year
• Charlotte, NC: $116,000 - $136,000 / year
• Chicago/Minneapolis: $127,600 - $149,600 / year
• Los Angeles/New York City: $139,200 - $163,200/ year

Our Product Culture 

Through our product-driven Agile/Lean DevOps environment, we’ve fostered a culture of innovation and experimentation across our development teams. As a customer-focused organization, we work closely with our end users and engineering teams to understand and rapidly respond to emerging business needs.  

Collaboration is embedded into everything we do – from the products we develop to the quality service we provide. We’re driven by the belief that diversity of thought, background, and perspective is critical to creating the best products and experiences for our customers.  

Work Environments 

This role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek), and remote work arrangements (only if residing more than 30 miles from Des Moines, IA, Charlotte, NC, and Raleigh, NC). You’ll work with your leader to figure out which option may align best based on several factors. 

Job Level 

We’ll consider talent at the next level, Senior Product Manager I, with the right experiences and skills. 

Senior Product Manager I minimum qualifications:  

• 6+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education. 
• 3+ years working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced product environment with product or engineering teams and stakeholders. 

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. 

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