Director of Product Management, Enterprise Data & Analytics

$137,000 - $185,000/Yr

Principal Financial Services - Des Moines, IA

Full-time - Senior

Des Moines, IA

About the position

The Director of Product Management for Principal's Enterprise Data and Analytics organization is responsible for leading a team of Product Managers, data scientists, engineers, and analysts. This role focuses on transforming reactive analysis into predictive and generative insights, driving product and platform strategies, and ensuring successful outcomes through collaboration with various stakeholders. The position emphasizes the importance of understanding customer behavior and financial patterns to enhance the organization's data capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Drive a team of Product Managers, data scientists, engineers, and analysts to enable insights about customers and business.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to build product and platform strategies.
• Mature product practices and drive outcomes while collaborating with business stakeholders, architecture, and technology teams.
• Iterate on OKRs that drive real outcomes and help teams connect these to work.
• Experiment and iterate to find the most impactful work for the chosen outcomes.
• Lead and coach a passionate team of Product Management professionals.

Requirements

• 10+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, military experience, or education.
• 7+ years working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced product environment.
• 4+ years of people management experience, growing the talent of individuals and teams.
• Demonstrated success managing complex stakeholder expectations across multiple products.
• Proven success in driving product outcomes in a multi-product environment while establishing business strategy for multiple products.
• Demonstrated understanding of modern product discovery and delivery techniques and the ability to mentor others.
• Understanding of various approaches and tools for research, synthesis, ideation, and testing in a dynamic dual track discovery and delivery loop.
• Proven success building positive relationships with different functional partners and the ability to collaborate and influence at all levels within an organization.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to establish relationships and influence business partners.

Nice-to-haves

• Lead change management initiatives for product domain.
• Ground in Data domains (data engineering, data analytics, data science, business intelligence, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to lead and grow a Product organization.
• Product Management experience in platform products.
• Desire to help transform the organization to the Product Operating Model.
• Demonstrated record of creating clarity from ambiguity.

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off (FTO) for vacation, personal, or short-term illness without accruing a bank of time off.
• Pension eligibility.