Product Manager II

Responsibilities:

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 Data & Analytics Product Manager is responsible for shaping, prioritizing, and delivering solutions that drive business impact. This role partners with analysts, engineers, and internal stakeholders to ensure the right problems are being solved. This role requires strong data fluency and a strong product mindset to deliver solutions that are valuable, viable, and usable. They demonstrate a strong understanding of how product disciplines collaborate to accomplish outcomes. They understand product strategy for their area and are responsible for building shared understanding with their team(s) of the highest-value opportunities and problems to solve. They demonstrate a strong understanding of how product disciplines collaborate to accomplish outcomes. They demonstrate curiosity, open-mindedness, and motivation to continue gaining exposure and experience in all phases of the product lifecycle.

• Product Strategy:
o Defines and manages product strategy, ensuring alignment with Enterprise Data and Analytics strategies and BPDA Product taxonomy guidelines.
o Integrates business, customer, user, and partner insights to identify high-impact opportunities for analytics and data-driven decision-making.
o Ensures relationships and dependencies with other products and teams are clearly understood and works to integrate strategies through shared objectives.
o Responsible for executing on the strategy as part of a product team(s).
• Product Discovery:
o Accountable for understanding and defining key business outcomes and requirements for their product.
o Partners with analysts and engineers to evaluate feasibility and business value of use cases, drawing out insights and sharing learnings with key partners and stakeholders.
o Articulates hypotheses and leads the product team in ideating and running experiments.
o Facilitates prioritization of work based on feasibility, business value, and alignment with strategic goals.
o Responsible for bringing the data and insights to the table for product teams and stakeholders to understand and consume
o Operates and improves an effective parallel discovery and delivery model.
• Product Delivery:
o Is accountable for the success of product delivery in collaboration with technology and non-technology partners. In partnership with other members of a team, works to remove impediments that the team may face in the pursuit of value creation.
o Collaborates with team to break down work in a manner which frequent release of valuable product changes.
o Ensures the product team has the customer, user, and stakeholder context required to solve problems effectively and efficiently.
o May play the role of product owner for the product team(s), collaborating on story creation and refinement, definition, acceptance criteria, prioritization, and acceptance of work as done.
o Ensure team has effective and efficient agile ceremonies and agreements with interdependent teams.
o Responsible for successful delivery of measurable, goal-aligned value and owns the product roadmap.
o Communicates product releases to stakeholders & partners.
• Product Assessment:
o Ensures every goal-aligned unit of value created by the team(s) is measurable and shows progress towards objectives.
o Monitors and communicates product health, impact of product releases, and progress against product goals.
o Accountable for ensuring product team(s) utilizes data to gauge performance and inform strategic revision and discovery.
o Responsible and accountable for meeting product outcomes.
• Stakeholder Management and Communication:
o Collaborates with business leaders and finance to manage budget, go to market strategy, etc.
o Communicates key information (strategy, priorities, plans, experiments, results, etc.) regarding the product(s) with stakeholders.
o Communicate effectively as part of the product management team supporting a broader product family or portfolio.
o Works with stakeholders to understand and improve change
• Product Leadership
o May serve as a resource to Associate Product Managers as they develop product experience, knowledge, and skills.
o Identifies opportunities to improve product management practice within their sphere of responsibility and takes action to continuously improve.

Qualifications:

• Have a general knowledge of analytical concepts, and the general objectives of descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics
• Have a general knowledge of data products and tooling used in their creation.
• Demonstrated experience managing 1 or multiple products.
• Demonstrated experience with strategic thinking, collaboration and decision making in a product environment.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage multiple workloads and/or competing priorities.
• Demonstrated experience with stakeholder and relationship management in a product environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading, influencing, and negotiating in a product environment.

Additional Information:

Preferably the candidate should possess strong data analytics and visualization expertise, demonstrated hands-on experience in product lifecycle management and roadmap planning, and a sound understanding of the financial product distribution domain - creating a well-rounded profile capable of driving data-driven product decisions.