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What You'll Do

We’re looking for a Product Manager to join our HR product team, driving innovation across the global employee lifecycle. In this role, you’ll shape the strategy and delivery of digital HR products that support core employee data—like records and organizational structures—and key transitions such as onboarding, job changes, leader changes, and offboarding. You’ll collaborate closely across HR, engineering, data teams, and business partners to build scalable, user-friendly solutions that serve as the foundation of global workforce data. These solutions will create seamless, data-powered experiences that support employees through key career milestones while ensuring data quality and compliance.

You’ll be responsible for:

+ **Own Product Strategy:** Define and lead employee lifecycle and data product strategy that aligns with enterprise goals, responsible data principles, and drives measurable impact

+ **Drive Discovery & Insights:** Guide discovery efforts by collecting feedback and analytics to gain insights and prioritize key areas

+ **Lead Product Delivery:** Ensure successful, value-driven delivery across teams. Manage dependencies, support agile practices, and deliver on roadmap commitments

+ **Measure & Optimize:** Track product performance, make data-driven decisions, and continuously evolve the product to meet enterprise needs

+ **Stakeholder Engagement & Influence:** Partner with stakeholders across all levels to align on goals, communicate strategy, and share outcomes—building trust, managing expectations, and driving informed decisions

+ **Mentor & Shape Culture:** Support and mentor other product managers, sharing best practices to foster a strong, high-performing product culture

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.

Who You Are

+ 4+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through the following: work experience, military experience, or education

+ 2+ years working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with engineering teams and partners while managing 1 or multiple products

+ Excellent communication skills including the ability to lead, influence and negotiate with partners at all levels of the company

+ Strong strategic thinking/vision, collaboration and decision-making skills along with business savviness and relationship management skills

+ Demonstrated experience collaborating, influencing, and negotiating in a professional team environment, including using diverse perspectives and data to inform actions

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out

+ Product Management experience in a mature environment with understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery

+ Experience with employee data, employee experience lifecycle, Oracle HCM and other HR tools

+ Experience in a global enterprise with product strategy, scope and scale

+ Great balance of technical understanding, ability to use technology to solve business problems, Power BI, Jira and Confluence experience, and interpersonal skills

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)

$106400 - $144400 / 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

Work Environments

This role offers an in-office and hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek) work arrangement in Des Moines, IA.

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 (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 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 (https://www.principal.com/about-us/careers) to learn more about our purpose, values and benefits.

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

10/15/2025

Most Recently Posted Date

10/15/2025

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