Job Description

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 Associate Product Manager


is responsible for supporting Product Managers as part of a product management team; however,

they are not the accountable Product Manager for a product. They develop knowledge, experience,


and skills by working side-by-side experienced product managers. They participate and assist with


discovery sessions, maintaining product health and operations metrics, and aiding in insights


gathering. They typically support a highly complex product or family of products; gaining exposure and


building relationships with key product disciplines. While building the skills required to operate as an


independent product manager, they contribute to an efficient and effective product practice. They


demonstrate curiosity, open-mindedness, and motivation to gain exposure and experience in all


phases of the product lifecycle.
1. Product Discovery• Learns about strategic intent, problems to solve, and outcome hypotheses


from PM or Senior PM
• Listens and anticipates customer needs and conveys needs to PM or


Senior PM and product teams
• Turn business and domain knowledge into product knowledge in


partnership with PM or Senior PM
• Supports the product team (design, engineering, and various business


roles) in ideating and running experiments.
• Reports on measurable performance against outcome hypotheses and


success criteria. Documents and shares insights and learnings with key


partners and stakeholders.


2. Product Delivery• Supports Product Managers and product teams to identify, understand,


and track resolution of impediments to progress and dependencies with


other teams
• Helps procure, package, and distribute the business, customer, user, and


stakeholder context and information required to solve problems


effectively and efficiently.
• Collaborates with team to help administer key team practices and team


enablement technologies
• May contribute to the role of product owner for SCRUM teams,


collaborating on story creation and refinement, definition and success


criteria, and acceptance that work is done.
• Participate in team/agile ceremonies
• Draft communications regarding product release


3. Product Assessment:• Assist PM and Senior PM to ensure every goal-aligned unit of value


created by the team(s) is measurable and can show progress towards


product goals.
• Monitors and communicates product health, impact of product releases,


and progress against product objectives.


Qualifications:

Any Graducate with 3+ year of direct work experience supporting product, technology, business or demonstrated through


equivalent military experience.


• Experience with strategic thinking and decision making in a professional context.
• Experience with managing multiple workloads and/or competing priorities in a professional context.
• Experience with synthesizing, summarizing, and aggregating information and building visuals.
• Demonstrated experience solving problems and operating in uncertainty.
• Demonstrated experience producing accurate and high-quality deliverables.
• Demonstrated experience contributing within a team setting.