Product Manager 2 (Hybrid)

Principal Financial Group; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Principal Financial Group is seeking an experienced Product Manager to join the Web Enablement NSK platform team. You will lead a strategic enterprise development framework to help Principal build consistent, secure, and scalable web applications across the organization.

The role focuses on owning product strategy, conducting discovery, delivering value, and mentoring others to foster a high-performing product culture within an enterprise technology environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of business, technology, or product management experience.
• 3+ years in a highly collaborative, fast-paced product environment with product or engineering teams and stakeholders managing multiple products.
• Proven success in defining product strategy, managing stakeholders, and delivering outcomes across multiple teams.
• Strong strategic decision-making skills in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.
• Ability to leverage customer, user, and partner data and insights to drive product decisions.
• Experience coaching and mentoring others in a professional setting.

Responsibilities

• Own Product Strategy: Develop and evolve the NSK platform vision aligned with enterprise web standards and experience goals.
• Drive Discovery & Insights: Use analytics and user research to uncover opportunities and prioritize initiatives.
• Lead Product Delivery: Ensure value-driven delivery across teams, manage dependencies, and promote agile practices.
• Measure & Optimize: Track product performance and make data-driven decisions to meet enterprise needs.
• Engage & Influence: Partner with leaders to align goals and share results, guiding web app development best practices.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Agile practices

Mentoring

Job description

What You'll Do

We're seeking an experienced Product Manager to join our Web Enablement Next Software Kit (NSK) platform team. The Web Enablement product family provides guidance and modern reusable frameworks and solutions to the enterprise.

In this role, you will lead our Next Software Kit (NSK) platform product, a strategic enterprise development framework that enables teams across Principal to build consistent, secure, and scalable web applications.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead a strategic technical product that impacts development across the enterprise while working with cutting‑edge web technologies and cloud platforms.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Own Product Strategy:Collaborate with technical leads to develop and evolve the product vision and strategy. Partner with the technical team to ensure alignment with enterprise web standards and experience goals while driving measurable impact.
• Drive Discovery & Insights:Use experimentation, analytics, and user research to uncover opportunities and prioritize high‑value initiatives.
• Lead Product Delivery:Ensure successful, value‑driven delivery across teams, manage dependencies, and champion agile practices.
• Measure & Optimize:Track product performance, make data‑driven decisions, and continuously evolve the product to meet enterprise needs.
• Engage & Influence:Partner with leaders across all levels to align on goals, communicate strategy, and share results. Educate and consult with Principal teams on web application development best practices, use cases, and tooling.
• 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

We are looking for someone with:

• 6+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through the following: work experience, military experience, or education
• 3+ years working in a highly collaborative, fast‑paced product environment with product or engineering teams and stakeholders managing multiple products
• Proven success in defining product strategy, managing stakeholders, and delivering outcomes across multiple teams.
• Strong strategic decision‑making skills in fast‑paced, cross‑functional environments
• Ability to leverage customer, user, and partner data and insights to drive product decisions
• Experience coaching and mentoring others in a professional setting

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out

• Strong technical background with understanding of modern web development frameworks and cloud technologies
• Experience with products serving the engineering community.
• Product management experience in a global organization
• Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to influence and collaborate with executive‑level stakeholders across a matrixed environment, drive alignment through negotiation, and lead change effectively

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)

$110200 - $156000 / year

Salary Details

• Des Moines, IA: $110,200 - $148,200 / year
• Charlotte, NC: $116,000 - $156,000 / year
• Raleigh, NC: $$116,000 - $156,000 / 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). 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 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.

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, benefits and why we’re an exceptional place 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.

Original Posting Date

9/14/2026

Most Recently Posted Date

9/14/2026

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