What You'll DoWe’re looking for a Legal Support Service Leader to join our Principal Financial Group Legal team. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead a high-performing legal support organization, driving operational excellence, talent development, and innovative service delivery that enables attorneys to focus on the most strategic legal work.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Paralegal Analysts and Legal Production Assistants, fostering a high-performing, collaborative, and service-oriented culture.
- Oversee legal support operations, including workload management, resource allocation, and service delivery across legal practice areas and locations.
- Partner with attorneys and Legal leadership to align support resources, service models, and operational priorities with department objectives.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives by leveraging process optimization, technology, automation, AI-enabled solutions, and performance metrics to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
- Ensure quality, compliance, and risk management through the oversight of legal records, confidential information, documentation standards, and legal support work products.
Who You Are
- 8+ years of legal support, paralegal services, legal administration or equivalent experience demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education
- 3+ years of prior people leadership experience with demonstrated success developing teams
Skills That Will Help You Stand Out
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience leading legal support operations, shared services, or professional support teams, including workforce planning, resource allocation, and service delivery management
- Strong organizational, communication, stakeholder management, coaching, and resource planning skills
- Proven ability to lead change, drive operational improvements, and implement process, technology, or service delivery enhancements
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$110200 - $148200 / 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 don’t accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.
Pension EligibleYes
Additional Information
Location(s)
This role will be based out of our World Headquarters located in Des Moines, IA. We’re open to considering in-office or hybrid talent. You’ll work with your leader to figure out which option may align best based on several factors. You can check out what our Global Headquarters looks like here:
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.
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)9/3/2026
Latest Post Date: Careers - US9/3/2026
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