What You'll Do At Principal, products provide value to customers, users, and partners, and help solve their needs as we work to enable a world where financial security is accessible to all. The Data & Analytics Product Manager is responsible for shaping, prioritizing, and delivering solutions that drive business impact. This role partners with analysts, engineers, and internal stakeholders to ensure the right problems are being solved. This role requires strong data fluency and a strong product mindset to deliver solutions that are valuable, viable, and usable. They demonstrate a strong understanding of how product disciplines collaborate to accomplish outcomes. Product Strategy: Defines and manages product strategy, ensuring alignment with Enterprise Data and Analytics strategies. Integrates business, customer, user, and partner insights to identify high-impact opportunities for analytics and data-driven decision-making. Ensures relationships and dependencies with other products and teams are clearly understood and works to integrate strategies through shared objectives. Responsible for executing on the strategy as part of a product team(s). Product Discovery: Accountable for understanding and defining key business outcomes and requirements for their product. Partners with analysts and engineers to evaluate feasibility and business value of use cases, drawing out insights and sharing learnings with key partners and stakeholders. Articulates hypotheses and leads the product team in ideating and running experiments. Facilitates prioritization of work based on feasibility, business value, and alignment with strategic goals. Operates and improves an effective parallel discovery and delivery model. Product Delivery: Is accountable for the success of product delivery in collaboration with technology and non-technology partners. In partnership with other members of a team, works to remove impediments that the team may face in the pursuit of value creation. Collaborates with team to break down work in a manner which frequent release of valuable product changes. Ensures the product team has the customer, user, and stakeholder context required to solve problems effectively and efficiently. May play the role of product owner for the product team(s), collaborating on story creation and refinement, definition, acceptance criteria, prioritization, and acceptance of work as done. Ensure team has effective and efficient agile ceremonies and agreements with interdependent teams. Responsible for successful delivery of measurable, goal-aligned value and owns the product roadmap. Communicates product releases to stakeholders & partners. Product Assessment: Ensures every goal-aligned unit of value created by the team(s) is measurable and shows progress towards objectives. Monitors and communicates product health, impact of product releases, and progress against product goals. Accountable for ensuring product team(s) utilizes data to gauge performance and inform strategic revision and discovery. Responsible and accountable for meeting product outcomes. Stakeholder Management and Communication: Collaborates with business leaders and finance to manage budget, go to market strategy, etc. Communicates key information (strategy, priorities, plans, experiments, results, etc.) regarding the product(s) with stakeholders. Communicate effectively as part of the product management team supporting a broader product family or portfolio. Works with stakeholders to understand and improve change. Product Leadership May serve as a resource to Associate Product Managers as they develop product experience, knowledge, and skills. Identifies opportunities to improve product management practice within their sphere of responsibility and takes action to continuously improve. Who You Are 4+ years of business, technology, or product management experience, preferably in a Data & Analytics organization; or equivalent demonstrated through the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education. You have a general knowledge of analytical concepts, and the general objectives of descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. You have a general knowledge of data products and tooling used in their creation. 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 stakeholder 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 analysts, engineers, and stakeholders. 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) $106400 - $130000 / 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 Additional Information Work Environment This role is located in our corporate headquarters in Des Moines, IA. This role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek), in our Des Moines office. Work Authorization/Sponsorship At this time, we're not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future or those needing work authorization for this role. (This includes, but is not limited to students on F1-OPT, F1-CPT, J-1, etc.) 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 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 6/25/2025 Most Recently Posted Date 7/24/2025 LinkedIn Hashtag #LI-EW1