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About the Role

The Product Manager drives product strategy through backlog prioritization and delivery, helping ensure operational efficiency, accuracy, scalability, and compliance while driving positive customer and business outcomes. Depending on business needs and product assignment, the Product Manager may focus on areas such as investment lineup configuration and maintenance, retirement investment trading, trade processing, cash movement, pricing and valuation, or related investment services capabilities.

Responsibilities

Partners with a Product Manager or Senior Product Manager to understand and execute the product strategy.
Develops understanding of product strategy in context of enterprise and business strategies.
Accountable for understanding and defining key business outcomes and requirements for their product and executes experiments.
Finds opportunities/problems to solve and articulates hypotheses.
Improves or maintains an effective parallel discovery and delivery model.
Leads the product team in ideating and running experiments.
Assesses value of experiments, collaborates to draw out insights, and shares findings with key partners and stakeholders.
Determines which work should be prioritized into the product.
Accountable for success of product delivery and partners with team to deliver quality with value.
Works to remove impediments and manage dependencies that the team may face.
Ensures the product team has the business, customer, user, and stakeholder context required to solve problems effectively and efficiently.
Collaborates on story creation and refinement, definition and success criteria, prioritization, and accepts work as done.
Ensures every goal-aligned unit of value created by the team(s) is measurable and can show progress towards product goals.
Responsible for assessment practices of a team(s).
Monitors and communicates product health, impact of product releases, and progress against product goals.
Responsible and accountable for meeting product outcomes and making enhancements to the go-to-market strategy, product, etc. to meet them.
Communicates discovery and delivery priorities, results of experiments, quantifiable progress to goals, and delivery health of their product with stakeholders.
Finds opportunities to improve the practice within their sphere of responsibility.
Works as part of the team to continuously improve.

Requirements

2+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
1+ year working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with engineering teams and stakeholders.
Solid understanding of investment products, including mutual funds, collective investment trusts, target-date funds, managed accounts, or retirement plan investment offerings.
Ability to understand and translate sophisticated investment concepts into product requirements and user-focused solutions.
Prior experience in a product environment, exposure to the Product Manager role, and experience with stakeholder and relationship management.
Experience with critical thinking, decision making, handling multiple workloads, and competing priorities.
Demonstrated experience leading, influencing, and negotiating in a professional team environment.
Leverages diverse perspectives and uses data to advise action.
Must 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.
Does not require immigration sponsorship now or in the future.

Skills

Investment operations
Retirement recordkeeping
Investment lineup management and product administration
Trade processing and execution
Cash management and money movement
Investment pricing and valuation
Financial services or asset management platforms
Operational platform modernization

Location

Wichita, KS
Des Moines, IA
Charlotte
Raleigh
Dallas
Chicago
Minneapolis
Houston
Los Angeles
New York City
Remote

Work Type

In-office
Hybrid
Remote

Experience Level

Product Manager 1
Product Manager 2

Salary/Compensations

$84,600 - $187,200 / year

Benefits

Flexible Time Off (FTO)
Pension Eligible
Comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being.

About the Company

Operating at the intersection of financial services and technology, Principal builds financial tools that help our customers live better lives.
We take pride in being a purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all.
Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a trusted leader for more than 140 years.
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.
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.

Equal Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.