**What You'll Do** Are you seeking to make a significant impact by crafting our brand's visual identity? Join Principal Financial Group as a Senior Associate, Design, and bring your creativity to life through high-quality graphic design! We are seeking an ambitious individual who is prepared to compete at a world-class level and effectively implement their innovative vision within our team. If you are enthusiastic about design and motivated by the chance to build flawless visual experiences, we encourage you to reach out! **What you will do** + Conceptualize and Complete Creative Projects: Bring our brand personality to life through outstanding graphic design implementations across different mediums. This involves designing marketing collateral, high-profile reports, presentations, event materials, and other branded content. + Work with Cross-Functional Teams: Collaborate with design strategists and managers to maintain brand consistency and design quality. Collaborate with the accounts team on specifications, final outputs, and file delivery to both internal and external collaborators. + Stay Current with Trends and Technology: Keep up to date with design trends and advancements in creative technology, particularly within Adobe Creative Cloud. + Client Consultation: Offer design consultation services to clients, ensuring their vision aligns with our brand's ethos. + Perform Other Duties as Assigned: Flexibility to handle additional tasks as needed, showcasing your adaptability. **Who You Are** + Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in graphic design or a related field. + 2+ years of professional graphic design experience working directly with Principal Products/Services as well as Principal Brand/Insight Standards. + Creative and Strategic Skills: Proven ability to translate ideas from a brief into flawless design executions. Strong problem-solving, communication, presentation, and strategic decision-making skills are essential. + Proficiency in Design Systems: Extensive understanding of visual brand systems and standard methodologies for design across various mediums and platforms. + Showcase your graphic design skills with a portfolio highlighting layout, typography, content hierarchy, photo editing, and illustration. + Marketing and Digital Knowledge: Familiarity with marketing, advertising, public relations, and digital marketing strategies. + Technical Proficiency: Highly proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel), and other design software. Knowledge of HTML and CSS is a plus. + Team Collaboration: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced team environment, prioritize tasks, and manage multiple projects under tight deadlines. + Attention to Detail: Emphasis on accuracy and quality in all design work. + Effective Communication: Strong skills in communication and presentation, with the ability to estimate project timelines accurately. + Adaptability: Must be adaptable, flexible, and capable of building and maintaining effective relationships. **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)** $25.96 - $47.31 / hour **Time Off Program** Personal Time Off (PTO) is provided to hourly (non-exempt) employees and provides a set amount of accrued time earned each pay period. Employees can use their PTO for vacation, personal or short-term illness. **Pension Eligible** Yes **Additional Information** **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 (https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary-nonimmigrant-workers) and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants (https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/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 (https://www.principal.com/about-us/careers) 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** 7/23/2025 **Most Recently Posted Date** 7/23/2025 LinkedIn Remote Hashtag \#LI-Remote