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What You'll Do

We are seeking a highly strategic and technically grounded **Senior AI Security** **Product** **Manager** to lead the development of secure, compliant AI/ML capabilities while playing a central role in our broader **Information Security Program** . This role bridges the domains of **AI governance, cybersecurity, insider risk, and privacy** —ensuring that our AI systems are not only innovative, but also resilient, trustworthy, and well-defended against both internal and external threats.

You will drive product strategy, lead control implementation, and collaborate deeply with cross-functional teams including AI Governance, Privacy, Legal, and Risk. The ideal candidate is both a systems thinker and an influential communicator—capable of translating complex threats and technical detail into compelling narratives that align teams and drive results.

Key Responsibilities

AI Security Product Leadership

+ Lead the product strategy and roadmap for AI security, with a focus on threat detection, control implementation, and secure-by-design development across AI/ML pipelines.

+ Define and deliver protections against AI-specific risks such as model inversion, adversarial attacks, prompt injection, model extraction, and unauthorized AI use ("shadow AI").

+ Embed secure engineering practices across the AI lifecycle and MLOps infrastructure in partnership with Engineering, Security, and Data Science teams.

+ Monitor the evolving AI threat landscape and adapt product strategies to mitigate new risks and address changing regulatory demands (e.g., NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001).

+ Develop and track KPIs and metrics that measure AI Security control effectiveness and program maturity.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Governance

+ Serve as a key contributor to the Information Security Program, ensuring AI security and insider threat efforts align with enterprise risk posture and compliance obligations.

+ Collaborate closely with AI Governance, Privacy, Legal, and Risk teams to define and enforce technical and policy controls aligned to emerging standards.

+ Support and help lead AI threat modeling and risk assessments as part of broader enterprise security reviews.

Influence & Communication

+ Translate complex AI Security issues, risks and threats into clear, compelling business narratives that align and influence diverse stakeholders, including executives and frontline teams.

+ Evangelize AI securitystrategies across the company, building awareness and shared accountability for risk reduction.

Who You Are

+ 6+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education.

+ Demonstrated experience managing multiple products.

+ Demonstrated success establishing product strategy.

+ Demonstrated success managing complex stakeholder expectations in a product environment.

+ Demonstrated success in both discovery and delivery against product outcomes.

+ Demonstrated ability to think strategically and make decisions in a fast-paced environment, in multiple teams/functional areas/organizations.

+ Demonstrated success bringing together customer, user, or partner data and insights to make decisions in a product environment.

+ Coaching and mentoring experience in a professional setting.

+ 3+ years working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced product environment with product or engineering teams and stakeholders.

Salary Range Information

Salary 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 (Non-Exempt expressed as hourly; Exempt expressed as yearly)

$123000 - $167000 / year

Time Off Program

Flexible 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 Eligible

Yes

Additional Information

Work Environments

This role offers the ability for in-office and hybrid (blending both office and remote work in a typical workweek) work arrangements in Des Moines, IA or Charlotte, NC locations. There is an expectation for this role to work on site at least 3 days a week.

Work Authorization/Sponsorship

At this time, we're 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 (https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary-nonimmigrant-workers) and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants (https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/green-card-for-employment-based-immigrants)

Investment Code of Ethics

For Principal Global Investors 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

While our expertise spans the globe, we're 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 (https://www.principal.com/about-us/careers#core-values) , benefits (https://www.principal.com/about-us/careers#benefits) and why we’re an exceptional place (https://www.principal.com/about-us/careers#reputation) to grow your career.

Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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.

Posting Window

We 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.

Original Posting Date

6/11/2025

Most Recently Posted Date

6/11/2025