Product Manager 2

Principal Financial Group • UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

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!

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Own the Portfolio & Application Intelligence Product Space (Core)
• Enable better decisions by helping 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 by partnering across architecture, engineering, and business stakeholders to bring together applications, cost, risk, dependencies, and business context.
• Build trust in data by improving visibility, quality, and shared understanding of the portfolio with insights that foster action.
• Continuously improve how we work by reducing manual effort and ambiguity through automation, AI, and smarter workflows.
• Design with the user in mind by bringing 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 by partnering 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.

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
• Comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being.

What This Job Offers

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