What You'll Do

We’re looking for a Program Manager to join our Retirement and Income Solutions (RIS) team. In this role, you'll drive complex and high-impact business initiatives that span multiple functional areas, business units, ensuring alignment with strategic initiatives. You'll manage multiple concurrent initiatives, collaborate with internal partners and external clients, provide mentorship to team members, and act as a strategic consultant for corporate, business unit, and client-focused priority initiatives.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Lead complex, high-risk, high-visibility RIS initiatives to successful completion, using appropriate methodologies and influencing partners. Lead with organizational awareness and collaboration to meet or exceed expectations. Track achievements and results to ensure progress aligns with objectives
• Communicate clearly with internal teams, department leadership, business partners, and vendors, providing updates, ensuring visibility, and driving accountability
• Build relationships by promoting motivation and collaboration. Facilitate change and drive improvements, using change management principles
• Identify and mitigate risks impacting cross functional teams. Communicate and manage organizational changes, balancing competing demands
• Make cost-effective decisions, aligning financial and operational strategies. Oversee vendor activities to ensure delivery and expected outcomes. Manage relationships, negotiations, and support procurement
  
  
  

Operating at the intersection of financial services and technology, Principal builds financial tools that help our customers live better lives. We take pride in being a purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all. Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a trusted leader for more than 140 years.

Who You Are

• 8+ years project, program, initiative management experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education
• Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, facilitation, planning, and decision-making skills
• Demonstrated capability to build and sustain relationships with individuals at all levels, including external consultants and vendors, fostering collaboration and communication, while effectively leading and influencing without direct authority
• Performance driven and able to adapt and deal with ambiguous situations, managing expectations effectively while executing in a matrix management environment
• Understanding of the capabilities of information technology and applications to find opportunities for process improvement
• Strong knowledge of PC, Microsoft Suite and project planning oriented software
• Strong understanding of negotiation and procurement processes for purchase of professional services and/or products
• Experience and/or ability to assess organizational culture and appropriately adapt work efforts to deliver required results
  
  
  

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out:

• Retirement and/or financial services
• Expert with the application of project scope, cost, and time management as well as other project management fields such as quality and risk control, communication, and HR management and integration
• Project Management Professional (PMP) designation
• Experience working with engineers, technology architects, delivery managers, and/or product managers
• Experience with JIRA and/or Confluence
  
  
  

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)

$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

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.

Original Posting Date

5/2/2025

Most Recently Posted Date

5/2/2025

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