Product Manager 2

Principal Financial Group•Des Moines, IA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for a Product Manager 2 to join our Law, Compliance, Privacy, and Government Relations portfolio team. In this role, you’ll partner across business, product, and technology teams to deliver valuable, viable solutions that support strategic outcomes for a critical enterprise portfolio. 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!

Requirements

4+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
Demonstrated experience managing one or multiple products, including product strategy, discovery, delivery, assessment, stakeholder management, and communication.
Experience using customer, user, partner, and business insights to inform decisions, prioritize work, and measure progress against product outcomes.
A collaborative, strategic thinker who can successfully manage competing priorities, build strong relationships, influence across teams, and make decisions in a fast-paced product environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience playing the product owner role for Scrum teams, including story creation and refinement, acceptance criteria, prioritization, and acceptance of work as done.
Experience supporting legal, compliance, privacy, government relations, or other highly regulated business areas.

Responsibilities

Define and manage product strategy for low- to medium-complexity products, ensuring alignment with broader product family, business, and enterprise strategies.
Lead product discovery by identifying opportunities and problems to solve, using business, customer, user, and partner insights to inform prioritization and decision-making.
Partner closely with design, engineering, business stakeholders, and technology partners to deliver measurable, goal-aligned value through an effective discovery and delivery model.
Own and communicate the product roadmap, product health, release impact, progress against goals, and key learnings to stakeholders and partners.
Support and strengthen product management practices by serving as a resource to Associate Product Managers and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.