Assistant Director - Product Management (Hybrid)

Principal Financial Group • Raleigh, NC

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a people leader for our Income Solutions-Annuities Product Managers and a strategic partner to business and technology leadership. You will be responsible for ensuring portfolio roadmaps, objectives, and priorities are aligned to strategy while coaching teams through discovery, decision-making, and execution. The ideal candidate combines strong product expertise, leadership presence, and the ability to create clarity in complex environments.

Requirements

• 8+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education.
• 5+ years working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced product environment.
• Formal leadership experience is required.
• Demonstrated success establishing business strategy for multiple products.
• Demonstrated success managing complex stakeholder expectations across multiple products.
• Demonstrated success in driving product outcomes in a multi-product environment.
• Demonstrated expertise in product domain knowledge and related data and insights.
• Demonstrated ability to figure out solutions to complicated problems using sound judgement and strong relationships to assess risk, and lay-out your argument in a well-structured, data-informed narrative.
• Coaching and mentoring experience in a professional setting.
• Demonstrated understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery and the ability to coach that in others. Understands various approaches and tools for research, synthesis, ideation, and testing in a dynamic dual track discovery and delivery loop.
• Excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Guides and defines product strategies for a low to medium complex and sensitive product family (a set of products which deliver against a shared strategic or business-critical outcome).
• Deep understanding of, and solutioning for, the end-to-end product experience.
• Partners with product managers and stakeholders to align across organizational boundaries and ensure strategic continuity among teams.
• Ensures product strategies align with business and enterprise strategies and priorities; and partners with finance and senior leadership to allocate necessary resources to pursue targeted outcomes.
• Integrates business, customer, user, and partner insights to inform a clear understanding of problems to solve and risks to manage. Continuously seeks to improve the clarity and effectiveness of the product family strategy.
• Ensures products within the family are leveraging data and insights inform product team decisions (in collaboration with design/experience experts)
• Effectively shares vision, intent, and objective of product family and component products with key partners.
• Accountable for an effective parallel discovery and delivery model in place across the product family.
• Is accountable for success of overall product family delivery.
• Communicates product family releases to stakeholders.
• Accountable for maintaining clear line-of-site on the target outcomes compared to investment levels and expectations.
• Monitors and communicates product family health, impact of product family releases, and progress against product family goals.
• Accountable for ensuring healthy feedback loops among teams within the product family; and among product families in a broader value stream.
• Responsible and accountable for meeting product family outcomes and if necessary, making enhancements to go to market strategy, products, etc. in order to meet them.
• Responsible for making performance information accessible and visible to Sr. Director of Product and other key stakeholders. Includes storytelling to clearly connect performance with strategy.
• Proactively shares key information (strategy, priorities, plans, experiments, results, etc.) regarding the product family with stakeholders.
• Communicates effectively as a leader of the product family and as part of a broader portfolio.
• Build strong working relationships with diverse stakeholders across organizational unit lines to enable value realization.
• Partner with leaders of technical and non-technical functions to foster a strong and aligned cross-functional team for the product family.
• Lead, mentor, coach, and manage Product Managers and Sr. Product Managers
• Champions product mindset and culture building with leaders of collaborating functions (such as Engineering, Design, Data, Product Development, etc.)
• Periodically assesses the health and maturity of the product management practice within their sphere of responsibility; and works to continuously improve.
• Formal staff reporting

Benefits

• 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.
• Pension Eligible

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed