Product Manager, HR Talent Products

Principal Financial Group; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Principal Financial Group is seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead a portfolio of Talent Acquisition and Talent Development products, guiding strategy, discovery, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes. You’ll collaborate across HR, Technology, Delivery, and vendors to translate insights into prioritized initiatives that drive business impact.

You will partner with engineering and business teams in a matrixed environment, shaping opportunities, resolving ambiguity, and building trusted

Qualifications

• 4+ years of business, technology, or product management experience.
• 2+ years partnering with engineering teams, business partners, and stakeholders in a matrixed product environment.
• Experience leading one or more products through the product lifecycle, including strategy, discovery, prioritization, delivery, and outcome measurement.
• Experience applying critical thinking, customer and stakeholder insights, and data to identify problems, evaluate opportunities, and make product decisions.
• Ability to lead through influence, champion stakeholder relationships, negotiate priorities, and build alignment across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy, roadmaps, priorities, and outcomes across the Talent Acquisition and Talent Development product families, balancing distinct needs while identifying meaningful connections across the employee experience.
• Lead product discovery and problem definition, using customer insights, data, and business context to uncover opportunities and ensure teams are solving the right problems.
• Drive prioritization and strategic tradeoffs across competing opportunities, creating clarity around decisions, investments, dependencies, and desired outcomes.
• Partner with stakeholders to strengthen product practices, creating greater clarity and consistency in how opportunities move from discovery through prioritization and delivery.
• Build trusted partnerships across HR, Technology, Delivery, business teams, and vendors, translating product strategy into aligned priorities and actionable outcomes.

Skills

Product lifecycle

Roadmaps

Discovery

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Mentoring peers

Job description

What You'll Do

We’re looking for an experienced Product Manager to lead a portfolio of products that support key moments in the candidate and employee experience, from hiring and development to performance, goals, and employee listening. You’ll own product strategy, discovery, prioritization, roadmaps, and outcomes across our Talent Acquisition and Talent Development product families.

This is a unique opportunity to help shape and evolve product practices within Talent Acquisition, with a focus on strong product ownership, customer discovery, and thoughtful evaluation and prioritization of opportunities. Success will require comfort working across products and stakeholder environments at different stages of maturity, navigating ambiguity, building trusted stakeholder relationships, and constructively challenging thinking to drive meaningful customer and business outcomes.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Own product strategy, roadmaps, priorities, and outcomes across the Talent Acquisition and Talent Development product families, balancing distinct needs while identifying meaningful connections across the employee experience.
• Lead product discovery and problem definition, using customer insights, data, and business context to uncover opportunities and ensure teams are solving the right problems.
• Drive prioritization and strategic tradeoffs across competing opportunities, creating clarity around decisions, investments, dependencies, and desired outcomes.
• Partner with stakeholders to strengthen product practices, creating greater clarity and consistency in how opportunities move from discovery through prioritization and delivery.
• Build trusted partnerships across HR, Technology, Delivery, business teams, and vendors, translating product strategy into aligned priorities and actionable outcomes.
• Influence and constructively challenge stakeholders, shifting conversations from requested solutions toward underlying customer needs, business problems, and the outcomes that matter most.
• Measure product performance and outcomes, using insights and learnings to continuously improve products, experiences, and future investment decisions.

What Success Looks Like

You’ll bring clarity and focus to product strategy and priorities, strengthen product ownership, and drive measurable outcomes across Talent Acquisition and Talent Development. Success will include building strong stakeholder partnerships and helping evolve how opportunities are discovered, evaluated, prioritized, and translated into meaningful customer and business outcomes.

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, training, military experience, or education
• 2+ years partnering with engineering teams, business partners, and stakeholders in a highly collaborative, matrixed product environment
• Experience leading one or more products through the product lifecycle, including strategy, discovery, prioritization, delivery, and outcome measurement
• Experience applying critical thinking, customer and stakeholder insights, and data to identify problems, evaluate opportunities, and make product decisions.
• Ability to lead through influence, champion stakeholder relationships, negotiate priorities, and build alignment across organizational boundaries
• Experience mentoring and coaching product professionals along with advancing product management practices within an organization

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out

• Strong product management experience across strategy, discovery, prioritization, roadmapping, and outcome measurement.
• Experience leading products in evolving product environments and helping strengthen product practices
• Product management experience within the HR domain or within similar capabilities
• Experience supporting products within a global organization, with the ability to apply a global approach and collaborate across regions
• Financial services/retirement industry background

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)

$120000 - $145000 / 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 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 wellbeing. 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

10/20/2026

Most Recently Posted Date

10/20/2026

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