Product Manager 2

Principal Financial Group • Des Moines, IA

6h • Hybrid

About The Position

Help us reimagine how we execute our strategy at Principal! We are looking for an experienced Product Manager to join our Strategic Value Delivery and Enablement (SVDE) team. SVDE provides a variety of services to the organization to improve our achievement of target outcomes. The Product Manager will engage with stakeholders and users to deeply understand the needs, refine the product strategy, set target measurable outcomes, and drive discovery and delivery cycles to enable strategic portfolio management with technology and data solutions. This role has broad enterprise reach. They will be a key leader in elevating and socializing the value we realize from improved portfolio management processes and practices, partnering closely with portfolio management leadership and other product managers.

Requirements

• 4+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education
• 2+ years working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced product environment with product or engineering teams and stakeholders
• Passionate about improving internal operations and efficiency by designing products to drive decision making and alignment
• Excellent emotional intelligence, interpersonal savvy, and transformation leadership
• Experience managing ServiceNow, Atlassian, or similar software-as-a-service products
• Proven success managing complex stakeholder expectations in a product environment
• Demonstrated success in both discovery and delivery against product outcomes

Responsibilities

• Ensure key information (strategy, priorities, plans, experiments, results, etc.) regarding the product(s) is understood by stakeholders.
• Negotiate resolution to conflicts and constraints.
• Integrate business, customer, user, and partner insights to inform a clear understanding of problems to solve and risks to manage.
• Ensure relationships and dependencies with other products and teams are clear and integrate strategy through shared objectives.
• Accountable for understanding and defining key business outcomes and requirements for their product.
• Articulate hypotheses and leads the product team(s) to deeply understand complex problems and solutions through experimentation.
• Ensure teams can break down work and synchronize in a manner which enables frequent release of valuable product changes.
• Understand and facilitate team/agile ceremonies (effective structure & routines).
• Ensure every goal-aligned unit of value is measurable and can show progress towards overall product objectives.
• Monitor and communicate product health, impact of product releases, and progress against product goals.

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed