As a Coach II focused on transformative change, your role is to partner with senior leaders, product leaders, and cross-functional teams to improve how they solve complex problems in ways that benefit customers and deliver business outcomes. You will operate as a trusted advisor across a broad portfolio, helping leaders strengthen judgment, accountability, and decision quality in product, delivery, and technology environments. 

Your work will influence not only how teams operate, but how leaders think about outcomes, value, and continuous improvement. 

Your day could look like this:

• Coach senior leaders, product leaders, and cross-functional teams on leadership behaviors, accountability, and decision-making aligned to healthy product, delivery, and organizational agility. 
• Serve as the primary or lead coach for a portfolio of teams, products, or value streams. 
• Guide leaders and teams in applying agile, lean, product, and systems-thinking practices that are fit for purpose and cohesive across the value chain. 
• Partner with leaders to translate strategy into outcome-driven objectives, learning agendas, and execution plans. 
• Design and deliver learning experiences, artifacts, and enablement materials that help leaders and teams apply new ways of working in real, in-flight work. 
• Use data and qualitative signals to assess progress, surface constraints, and guide continuous improvement. 
• Build strong relationships across product, engineering, delivery, data, and business functions to enable sustainable change. 

• 10+ years in agile, product, design setting
• 3+ years of product coaching experience
• 3+ years of team / team of team coaching experience
• 1+ years’ portfolio level coaching experience
• Demonstrated ability to lead transformative changes across multiple teams or portfolios in a hybrid business and technology organization
• Experience coaching senior leaders and senior individual contributors as a trusted advisor
• Strong grounding in product management, delivery management, engineering, or design, with the ability to coach across domains
• Ability to engage leaders with respectful candor and help improve judgment, clarity, and accountability
• You value principles over frameworks

• Ability to design practical learning experiences and artifacts that leaders actually use
• Comfort working with ambiguity and navigating complex, matrixed organizations
• Strong written communication skills for executive and leader-facing materials
• Experience supporting large-scale change initiatives or learning journeys

Work Environments

This role offers a hybrid work environment in our Global Headquarters located in Des Moines, Iowa (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek).

Work Authorization/Sponsorship

At this time, we're not considering applicants 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 Asset Management positions, you’ll 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

At Principal, we value connecting on both a personal and professional level. Together, we’re imagining a more purpose-led future for financial services – and that starts with you. Our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees. And we support our employees the same way we support our customers: with comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being. Check out our careers site to learn more about our purpose, values and benefits.