Senior Product Manager 1 (Digital Experience)

Principal Financial Group is seeking a Senior Product Manager I to lead and evolve its enterprise web experience and optimize customer-facing digital journeys. The role defines product strategy, guides discovery and delivery, assesses product outcomes, partners with business, UX, and technology teams, and coaches Product Managers.

Responsibilities:

• Product Strategy: Define and lead the product strategy for a portion of the enterprise digital experience, focused on optimizing web‑facing customer and employer journeys through data, customer insights, and cross‑functional alignment
• Product Discovery: Ensure effective discovery practices that inform decision‑making and facilitate collaborative solutioning to improve experience and efficiency
• Product Delivery: Be accountable for successful delivery across the product family, partnering closely with engineering and UX in an Agile environment and clearly communicating plans and releases
• Product Assessment: Maintain insight into product health, outcomes, and investment effectiveness, using data‑informed storytelling to guide trade‑offs and strategic adjustments
• Stakeholder Management & Communication: Serve as a trusted partner across business, technology, and UX teams by proactively communicating strategy, priorities, and outcomes to drive alignment and value realization
• Product Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop Product Managers while balancing hands‑on product leadership with people management and continuously strengthening product management practices

Requirements:

• 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
• Proven success establishing product strategy across multiple products and aligning it to enterprise priorities
• Strong background of stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration, especially partnering with UX/design and engineering
• Experience using data and insights to drive decisions and communicate outcomes through clear, structured storytelling
• Demonstrated understanding of modern product discovery and product delivery practices and the ability to coach others on those practices
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to establish relationships and influence business partners
• 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.)
• Experience leading enterprise web experiences across multiple lines of business or customer segments
• Experience improving digital journeys through analytics, experimentation, and iterative optimization