AI Product Manager II: Governance & Growth

Principal International; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Principal International is seeking a Product Manager II to lead the strategy, governance, and evolution of AI-powered capabilities across our Individual Solutions and Workplace Investing teams. You will partner with business and technology teams to deliver customer value while maintaining strong controls and risk management.

This role blends product leadership, AI knowledge, and rigorous delivery discipline in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of product management, business, technology, or related experience.
• 2+ years working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with engineering teams and stakeholders.
• Experience managing products through discovery, delivery, and optimization.
• Experience defining business requirements and prioritizing product roadmaps.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive decisions across multiple teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking capabilities.
• Experience working within agile environments alongside engineering teams.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, roadmap, and business outcomes for AI-powered capabilities.
• Define and prioritize product requirements, enhancements, and future investments.
• Partner with business, technology, data, risk, compliance, and operations teams to deliver customer value.
• Ensure product strategy aligns with broader business and enterprise priorities.
• Identify opportunities to improve customer experiences and operational efficiency through AI.
• Serve as the business owner of approved AI capabilities, customer experience, and associated risks.
• Establish and maintain operational controls, governance processes, and audit evidence.
• Oversee knowledge and content management strategies that support AI performance.
• Approve business and content changes impacting AI capabilities.
• Maintain version control and documentation for AI knowledge-base updates.
• Manage disaster recovery and business continuity plans related to AI services.
• Monitor AI performance, customer outcomes, and key business metrics.
• Analyze response quality, content gaps, hallucination indicators, drift, failed responses, and emerging customer needs.
• Leverage customer feedback and analytics to drive continuous improvement.
• Make material business decisions and prioritize corrective actions.
• Coordinate pre-production, regression, boundary, negative, and red-team testing activities.
• Manage incident response, issue remediation, complaint routing, and corrective actions.
• Monitor and evaluate vendor performance and contractual obligations.
• Participate in information security incident escalation and response processes.
• Conduct periodic control effectiveness reviews and operational reporting.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions.
• Translate customer and business needs into actionable product requirements.
• Support agile delivery practices, backlog prioritization, story refinement, and product releases.
• Communicate product vision, priorities, performance, and roadmap progress to stakeholders.

Skills

Product management

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Agile

Stakeholder collaboration

AI awareness

Job description

Principal International is seeking a Product Manager II to lead the strategy, governance, and evolution of AI-powered capabilities across our Individual Solutions and Workplace Investing teams. You will partner with business and technology teams to deliver customer value while maintaining strong controls and risk management.

This role blends product leadership, AI knowledge, and rigorous delivery discipline in a fast-paced environment.