Senior Product Manager 1
What You'll Do:
We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our RIS Product Management Payroll team.
You'll be responsible for accomplishing specific measurable business, customer, and operating results. You will work closely with other Product Managers and Senior Product Managers, offering product leadership and advocacy and knowledge of key techniques and skills required to lead the product life-cycle.You will also be a key strategic leader with vision within you respective business or functional context.
Product Strategy:
- Define, manage and lead product strategy for significant, complex products, requiring alignment across organization boundaries.
- Ensures relationships and dependencies with other products and teams are clearly understood; and works to integrate strategy through shared objectives.
- Integrates business, customer, user, and partner insights to advise a clear understanding of problems to solve and risks to manage.
- Responsible for implementing the strategy as part of multiple product team(s).
Product Discovery:
- Accountable for understanding and defining key business outcomes and requirements for their product.
- Articulates hypotheses and leads the product team(s) (design, engineering, and various business roles) to deeply understand complex problems and solutions through experimentation.
- Responsible for bringing the data and insights to the table for product teams and stakeholders to understand and consume (in collaboration with design/experience experts)
Product Delivery:
- In partnership with multiple teams, works to remove impediments within and among teams. Negotiates' resolution to conflicts and constraints.
- Ensures customer, user, and stakeholder insights are embedded in each stage of the product management life-cycle to enable efficient and effective use of delivery resources.
- Understand and facilitate and/or participate in team/agile ceremonies (effective structure & routines).
- Responsible for successful delivery of measurable, goal-aligned value (quality, timing, communication), including ownership and refinement of the product roadmap.
- Communicates product releases to stakeholders & partners
Product Assessment:
- Ensures every goal-aligned unit of value created by multiple teams is measurable and can show progress towards overall product objectives.
- Monitor and communicate product health, impact of product releases, and progress against product goals.
- Accountable for ensuring product teams utilize data to gauge performance and inform strategic revision and discovery.
- Storytelling of the multiple products/product teams and the inter-connectivity of them when assessing the results and sharing back with the AD or Dir of Product Management and stakeholders.
- Responsible and accountable for meeting product outcomes and if necessary, making enhancements to go to market strategy, product, etc. to meet them.
Stakeholder Management and Communication:
- Collaborates with business leaders and finance to manage budget, go to market strategy, etc.
- Ensures key information (strategy, priorities, plans, experiments, results, etc.) regarding the product(s) is understood by stakeholders.
- Communicates effectively as part of the Product Management team supporting a broader product family or portfolio.
- Works with diverse partners across department and organizational unit lines to understand, prepare for, and benefit from product changes.
- Provides thought partnership with AD, Dir, and Sr. Dir of Product Management
- Periodically assesses the health and maturity of the product management practice within their sphere of responsibility; and works to continuously improve.
- Mentor and coach Associate Product Managers and Product Managers
Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a trusted leader for more than 140 years.
As Principal continues to modernize its systems, this role will offer you an exciting opportunity to build solutions that will directly impact our long-term strategy and tech stack, all while ensuring that our products are robust, scalable, and secure!
Who You Are:
- - 6+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- Demonstrable experience leading multiple products and establishing product strategy.
- Ability to manage complex stakeholder expectations in a product environment.
- Demonstrated success in both discovery and delivery against product outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically and make decisions in a fast-paced environment, in multiple teams/functional areas/organizations.
- Demonstrated success bringing together customer, user, or partner data and insights to make decisions in a product environment.
- Coaching and mentoring experience in a professional setting.
- 3+ years working in a highly collaborative, product environment with product or engineering teams and stakeholders.
- Data driven decision making
- Customer centric attitude
- Ability to drive product strategy and vision
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: $123000 - $167000 / 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:
Our Engineering Culture
Through our product-driven Agile/Lean DevOps environment, we’ve fostered a culture of innovation and experimentation across our development teams. As a customer-focused organization, we work closely with our end users and product owners to understand and rapidly respond to emerging business needs.
Collaboration is embedded into everything we do – from the products we develop to the quality service we provide. We’re driven by the belief that diversity of thought, background, and perspective is critical to creating the best products and experiences for our customers.
Work Environments
This role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek), and remote work arrangements (only if residing more than 30 miles from Des Moines, IA, or Charlotte, NC). 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 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 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.
Date First Posted (TTF): 10/11/2024
Latest Post Date: Careers - US: 10/11/2024
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