Principal Financial Group Inc

Assistant Director - Product Management (Hybrid)

Principal Financial Group Inc$127K — $171K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of business, technology, or product management experience.
  • 5+ years in a fast-paced, collaborative product environment.
  • Formal leadership experience required.
  • Proven success in establishing business strategy for multiple products.
  • Experience managing complex stakeholder expectations across products.
  • Expertise in product domain knowledge and related data insights.
  • Coaching and mentoring experience in a professional setting.
  • Excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Guide and define product strategies for a product family.
  • Ensure alignment of product strategies with business objectives.
  • Integrate insights to improve product family strategies.
  • Monitor product family health and communicate progress to stakeholders.
  • Lead product managers in a supportive coaching environment.
  • Foster strong relationships with stakeholders across organizational lines.
  • Accountable for effective product delivery and discovery models.

Benefits

  • Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy for vacation and personal time.
  • Pension eligibility for retirement planning.
  • Hybrid work environment with in-office and remote options.
  • Opportunity for performance-based bonuses.
  • Commitment to a culture of inclusion and growth.
Full Job Description
What You'll Do

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.

  • Product Strategy:
    • 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.
  • Product Discovery:
    • Accountable for an effective parallel discovery and delivery model in place across the product family.
  • Product Delivery:
    • Is accountable for success of overall product family delivery.
    • Communicates product family releases to stakeholders.
  • Product Assessment: 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.
  • Stakeholder Management and Communication:
    • 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.
  • Product Leadership
    • 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
Who You Are

We are looking for someone with:

  • 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.
Salary Range InformationSalary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salary Range$127000 - $171000 / year Time Off ProgramFlexible 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. Employees dont accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided. Pension EligibleYes Additional Information

Work Environments

This role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek). Youll work with your leader to figure out which option may align best based on several factors.

Work Authorization/Sponsorship

At this time, were not considering candidates 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 Global Investors positions, youll 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

While our expertise spans the globe, were bound by one common purpose: to foster a world where financial security is accessible to all. And our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees  individually and all of us together. Explore our core values, benefits and why were an exceptional place to grow your career.

Posting WindowWe will accept applications for 3 full days following the Original Posting Date, after which the posting may remain open or be removed based upon applications received. If we choose to post the job again, we will accept additional applications for at least 1 full day following the Most Recently Posted Date. Please submit applications in a timely manner as there is no guarantee the posting will be available beyond the applicable deadline. Date First Posted (TTF)7/28/2026 Latest Post Date: Careers - US7/28/2026

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Learn more about Principal Financial Group Inc
Size
18,600 employees
Market Cap
$20.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.3 billion
5 Year Trend
+2.7%
Revenue
$14.7 billion
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