Assistant Director - Product Management (Mobile App)

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 Assistant Director - Product Management will be a strategic thinker with a strong background in mobile app experience, user experience design, and project management. This role will manage complex or highly sensitive products, typically supported by multiple teams within or across lines of business. The ideal candidate will have a keen understanding of market trends, user needs, and the competitive landscape to drive the product vision and execution. They are also a key strategic thought leader within their respective business or functional context. They demonstrate competence when managing complex stakeholder and organizational dynamics. Your goal will be to enhance our mobile presence, increase user engagement, and drive customer satisfaction.

Product Strategy:

• Develop and implement the product vision and strategy for the mobile app.
• Define and prioritize the product roadmap based on market research, customer feedback, business goals, and technical feasibility.
• Identify opportunities for new features and improvements to enhance user experience and engagement.
• Partner with the Director or Senior Director of Product Management and other product managers to ensure product strategies align to deliver on business and enterprise strategies.

Product Discovery:

• Accountable for understanding and defining key business outcomes and requirements for their product.
• Articulate hypotheses and lead 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:

• Lead the mobile app development projects from concept to launch.
• Coordinate with designers, developers, QA testers, and other stakeholders to ensure timely and high-quality delivery.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, marketing, and sales, to deliver high-quality mobile app products.
• Manage the entire product lifecycle from ideation to launch, ensuring timely delivery and embedding customer, user, and stakeholder insights in each stage of the product management life-cycle.

Product Assessment:

• Ensure 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 interconnectivity of them when assessing results and sharing back with the AD or Dir of Product Management and stakeholders.

Product Leadership:

• Lead, mentor, coach, and manage Product Managers and Sr. Product Managers. Champion product mindset and culture building with leaders of collaborating functions (such as Engineering, Design, Data, Product Development, etc.).
• Periodically assess the health and maturity of the product management practice within their sphere of responsibility; and work to continuously improve.
• Formal staff reporting.

• 8+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, military experience, or education.
• 5+ years working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced product environment.
• 2+ years of informal or formal leadership experience.
• Experience with mobile app development projects from concept to launch.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple products.
• Demonstrated success establishing product strategy and managing 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, across multiple teams/functional areas/organizations.
• Coaching and mentoring experience in a professional setting.

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)

$123000 - $167000 / year

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.

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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 candidates 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.

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

While our expertise spans the globe, we're bound by one common purpose: to foster a world where financial security is accessible to all. And our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees – individually and all of us together.

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.

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.

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