Enterprise Coach, Team Practices

Principal Financial Group; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Remote work options

Job summary

Principal Financial Group is seeking a Coach focused on transformative change to inspire teams, leaders, and senior leaders to improve how they solve hard problems for customers and the business. You’ll join a global community developing technology solutions to help people live their best lives.

You will coach across agile, product management, lean, and organizational agility, collaborating with leaders and cross-functional teams to drive outcomes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in an agile, product, or design setting.
• 3+ years of product/team coaching and mentoring experience.
• Demonstrated leadership (formal or informal) in a hybrid business-technology organization operating with agility and product.
• Ability to lead transformative change at a team and team of team level.
• Ability to engage with delivery professionals, engineers, designers, and leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship.

Responsibilities

• Inspire teams, leaders, and senior leaders to improve problem-solving for customers and business impact.
• Coach leaders on agile, scrum, lean, and product techniques and frameworks; guide AI integration where appropriate.
• Collaborate with coaches, leadership, and product teams across functions to change how we work and deliver solutions for customers.
• Study value streams and help leaders improve what and how they build, including AI-enabled changes.
• Curate and lead coaching engagements aligned with internal client goals and measurement.

Skills

Agile coaching

Leadership

Product management

Organizational agility

Job description

What You'll Do

As a Coach focused on transformative change, your role is to inspire teams, leaders, and senior leaders to improve how they solve hard problems in ways that benefit our customers and work for our business. You'll be part of a global community passionate about developing extraordinary technology solutions to help people live their best lives.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Coach leaders on how to shift leadership styles and accountability that align with healthy agile, product management and organizational agility. Help them create an environment where people can do their best work measured by and accountable to outcomes, not outputs
• Coach cross-functional teams and leaders on agile, scrum, lean, and product techniques and frameworks that are fit for purpose and work cohesively together, and on where AI belongs in that work and where a person's judgment has to carry it
• Collaborate with coaches, leadership, and product teams across multiple functions and disciplines to change the way we work and deliver solutions our customers and users
• Study how work actually moves through a value stream, and enable leaders and teams to improve what they build, how they build it, and where AI would change how a person, a team, or an org gets work done. Sometimes the finding is that the workflow needs fixing before any AI belongs in it
• Pair with colleagues to curate and lead coaching engagements that are responsive and in keeping with our vision of the future, driven by shared goals with our internal clients, coaching plans, and measurement
• Coach people through the discomfort of changing how they work. Embracing AI asks people to drop habits they're good at and trust output they didn't produce, and that lands as an emotional shift as much as an intellectual one
• Experiment in the open and craft AI workflows and techniques that other coaches and teams can learn from and reuse. Much of this work has no playbook yet and you'd be helping write it

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

• 10+ years in an agile, product, or design setting
• 3+ years of product/team coaching and mentoring experience
• Demonstrated leadership (formal or informal) in a hybrid business-technology organization operating with agility and product
• Ability to lead transformative change at a team and team of team level
• Ability to engage with delivery professionals, engineers, designers, and leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out

• B.S Education
• Ability to learn multiple functions of business - engineering, design, finance, sales, or marketing

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)

$130000 - $170000 / 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 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, or Charlotte, NC). 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.

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

9/9/2026

Most Recently Posted Date

9/10/2026

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