What You'll Do

We're looking for a Strategic Portfolio Manager to join our enterprise IT management area leading the enterprise data & analytics (EDA) portfolio. In this role, you'll partner with portfolio leaders, IT teams, and enterprise stakeholders to influence and ensure the EDA portfolio is in alignment with enterprise strategy. This includes setting clear priorities, manage dependencies, and lead effective trade-off decisions to optimize business outcomes within resource constraints. You'll serve as a trusted collaborator and advisor to the portfolio leadership team, share, communicate and promote the portfolio vision to ensure visibility of products/services across the enterprise, foster change leadership consensus to continuously improve portfolio management outcomes, and leverage effective portfolio management tools and techniques which complement the operating model.

You’ll have a focus on:

• Execution of Strategy - Ensure alignment of the EDA portfolio to Business and Enterprise strategic priorities and objectives and the achievement of strategic outcomes. Enhance the use of data and analytics to influence decision making towards building the right things. Partner with portfolio stakeholders to deliver results that advance strategic outcomes.
• Communication & Transparency - Lead and proactively communicate results, progress, risks, roadblocks, financial aspects, and data to teams, sponsors and stakeholders ensuring collaboration, decision making, and direction.
• Motivate Change – Lead continuous improvement, partnering with leaders, coaches, and team members to develop discovery and innovation, improve delivery speed, increase transparency, and achieve strategic outcomes. Advocate, influence, and lead change to become a more high-performing organization with an innovative culture.
• Organizational Management - Effectively drive the portfolio to execute on customer needs and business objectives through organizing, communicating transparently, aligning and collaborating, and handling dependency and risk. Work across teams and vendors to remove impediments and ensure decision making leverages data where possible.

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 of demonstrating progressive responsibility for strategic integration, stakeholder alignment, complex decision making, analysis, and informal leadership or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, military experience, or education
• 4+ of those years listed above, having direct responsibility for management of complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, facilitation, planning, and decision-making skills
• Ability to build and maintain relationships and facilitate collaboration and communication, including being perceived as a leader at all levels without formal authority
• Results oriented and able to adapt and deal with ambiguous situations and manage expectations
• Ability to influence effectively in matrix management environment
• Strong business insight and an understanding of the capabilities of information technology and applications to find opportunities for improvement
• Experience assessing organizational culture and operating model needs; and appropriately adapt to deliver required results
• Experience/understanding of IT and Data & Analytics domains preferred

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)

$127000 - $171000 / 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

Work Environments

This role offers an in-office and hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek) work arrangement in Des Moines, IA.

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

12/5/2025

Most Recently Posted Date

1/13/2026

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