Product Manager 2 (Hybrid Only)

Principal International; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Principal International is seeking a passionate Product Manager to join the Engineering Experience and Enablement team (EXE). This role helps accelerate software delivery by shaping a trusted AI-enabled product delivery lifecycle and crafting experiences that make Principal’s expertise easy to find and reuse.

You will own the product roadmap, partner with engineering and delivery leads, mentor other PMs, and influence stakeholders across technology spaces to deliver measurable value for the

Qualifications

• 4+ years in business, tech, or product management.
• Experience managing one or more products.
• Strong strategic thinking, collaboration, and decision making.
• Proven ability to manage multiple workloads and competing priorities.
• Experience with stakeholders and relationship management in a product environment.
• Leading, influencing, and negotiating in a product environment.
• Using customer data and insights to inform decisions and actions.
• 2+ years in a fast-paced, collaborative engineering environment with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Drive discovery using analytics and user research to uncover opportunities and prioritize initiatives.
• Own product vision, strategy, and roadmap in collaboration with technical and delivery leads.
• Measure performance and iterate based on data to meet enterprise needs.
• Engage leaders across technology spaces to advance the EXE vision.
• Mentor and shape the product culture by sharing best practices.

Skills

Product management

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decision making

Mentoring

Leadership

Tools

GitHub

Cloud solutions

Software Development Life Cycle

Job description

What You\'ll Do

We\'re seeking a passionate and experienced Product Manager to join our Engineering Experience and Enablement team (EXE). EXE is dedicated to accelerating efficient software delivery at Principal by providing technology teams with a delightful experience in which to build.

This product role is central to shaping and advancing our evolving product family as we expand to support an AI-native product delivery life cycle. The work includes enabling Product delivery teams and AI agents to invoke trusted, Principal-specific expertise inside the tools where work happens. It also means defining the experience, contribution model, quality bar, publishing path, and feedback signals that make our expertise discoverable, reliable, and valuable across the enterprise product delivery life cycle.

You\'ll have the opportunity to:

• Drive Discovery & Insights: Use experimentation, analytics, and user research to uncover opportunities and prioritize high-value initiatives.
• Own Product Strategy: Collaborate with technical and delivery leads to develop and evolve the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Measure & Optimize: Track product performance, make data-driven decisions, and continuously evolve the product to meet enterprise needs.
• Engage & Influence: Partner with leaders across technology spaces as stakeholders, advocates, and users of EXE products to advance the EXE vision.
• Mentor & Shape Culture: Support and mentor other product managers, sharing best practices to foster a strong, high-performing product culture.

We are looking for individuals who are excited to serve Principal\'s technology teams and create an environment where teams can build great products for our customers - and enjoy their work doing it. If you\'re passionate about people, technology, and the opportunity to make trusted expertise easier to find, apply, and improve through AI-enabled experiences, we\'d love to have you join us

Who You Are

We are looking for someone with:

• 4+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through the following: work experience, military experience, or education.
• Demonstrated experience managing 1 or multiple products.
• Demonstrated experience with strategic thinking, collaboration, and decision making in a product environment.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage multiple workloads and/or competing priorities.
• Demonstrated experience with stakeholders and relationship management in a product environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading, influencing, and negotiating in a product environment.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging diverse perspectives and use of customer, user, or partner data and insights to inform decisions and actions.
• 2+ years working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with engineering teams and stakeholders.

Additional Preferred experience:

• Comfortable getting up to speed on technical topics (with time and support to upskill)
• Experience supporting an AI-native product delivery life cycle.
• Familiarity with GitHub, Cloud Solutions, and the Software Development Life Cycle

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.

Nonimmigrant Workers and 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, 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. Please submit applications in a timely manner as there is no guarantee the posting will be available beyond the applicable deadline.

Original Posting Date

10/2/2026

Most Recently Posted Date

10/2/2026

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