What You'll DoAre you passionate about strengthening leadership capabilities and the leadership development pipeline?
We are seeking an experienced Senior Learning & Development Consultant II to serve as a strategic advisor and leadership development expert. In this role, you will diagnose leadership needs, translate talent insights into practical recommendations, and design scalable solutions aligned with enterprise and business priorities.
You will bring both consultative and practitioner expertise, using leadership programs, facilitation, coaching, assessments, team effectiveness interventions, and other development approaches to address identified needs. You will also lead critical leadership programs and talent processes, ensuring strong execution, continuous improvement, and measurable organizational value while collaborating with HR Business Partners and business leaders. Leadership and Talent Consulting: Consult to diagnose leadership, talent, and organizational challenges, applying business acumen, talent expertise, and organizational context to develop recommendations that advance enterprise and business outcomes.
Talent Insights and Organizational Intelligence: Synthesize talent data, assessments, stakeholder perspectives, and business context to generate actionable insights that inform talent decisions, leadership priorities, and organizational strategy.
Leadership Solutions and Delivery: Design, deliver, and continuously improve targeted leadership development solutions. Lead implementation and governance to ensure stakeholder alignment, scalable execution, measurable outcomes, and stronger leadership effectiveness and readiness. Help shape the leadership development portfolio by using business outcomes, participant feedback, talent insights, and emerging practices to evolve enterprise strategy, frameworks, tools, resources, and development offerings readiness.
Collaboration and Influence: Build trusted partnerships across HR, business leadership, and Talent Management to influence decisions through expertise, insights, and sound judgment while fostering enterprise alignment, shared ownership, and collective success.
Who You Are
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Six or more years of experience in leadership development, talent management, organizational development, learning and development, talent consulting, instructional design, or related fields.
- Experience diagnosing business and organizational needs and translating them into effective talent and leadership solutions.
- Experience using talent, assessment, or program data to generate insights and inform decision-making.
- Experience designing, implementing, and managing leadership programs, talent processes, or development initiatives.
- Strong consulting, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Strong facilitation, presentation, communication, and relationship-building skills.
- Strong project and program management skills, including managing multiple priorities and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to influence, build partnerships, and work effectively across teams and functions.
- Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
- Advanced experience or certification in facilitation, team effectiveness, organizational development, or related leadership-development methodologies.
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting senior leaders, executive populations, or enterprise talent processes.
- Professional coaching experience or an ICF coaching credential.
- Experience with Hogan or other leadership assessments.
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$104400 - $187200 / year
Salary Details
The following locations are examples of market-specific salary ranges across different geographies.
- Waterloo, IA: $104,400 - $140,400 / year
- Des Moines, IA: $110,200 - $148,200 / year
- Charlotte, NC: $116,000 - $156,000 / year
- Chicago/Minneapolis: $127,600 - $171,600 / year
- Los Angeles/New York City: $139,200 - $187,200 / 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
Work Environments
This role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek), and remote work arrangements (only if residing more than 30 miles from Des Moines, IA, Raleigh, NC or Charlotte, NC.). Strong preference for Des Moines, IA based candidates. You’ll work with your leader to figure out which option may align best based on several factors.
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)10/14/2026
Latest Post Date: Careers - US10/14/2026
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