Product Transformation Coach (Updated location - Remote)

What You'll Do

As a Product Transformation Coach focused on transformative change, your role is to partner with senior leaders, product leaders, and cross-functional teams to improve how they solve complex problems in ways that benefit customers and deliver business outcomes. You will operate as a trusted advisor across a broad portfolio, helping leaders strengthen judgment, accountability, and decision quality in product, delivery, and technology environments.


Your work will influence not only how teams operate, but how leaders think about outcomes, value, and continuous improvement.


Your day could look like this:

• Coach senior leaders, product leaders, and cross-functional teams on leadership behaviors, accountability, and decision-making aligned to healthy product, delivery, and organizational agility.
• Serve as the primary or lead coach for a portfolio of teams, products, or value streams.
• Guide leaders and teams in applying agile, lean, product, and systems-thinking practices that are fit for purpose and cohesive across the value chain.
• Partner with leaders to translate strategy into outcome-driven objectives, learning agendas, and execution plans.
• Design and deliver learning experiences, artifacts, and enablement materials that help leaders and teams apply new ways of working in real, in-flight work.
• Use data and qualitative signals to assess progress, surface constraints, and guide continuous improvement.
• Build strong relationships across product, engineering, delivery, data, and business functions to enable sustainable change.

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

• 10+ years in agile, product, design setting
• 3+ years of product coaching experience
• 3+ years of team / team of team coaching experience
• 1+ years' portfolio level coaching experience
• Demonstrated ability to lead transformative changes across multiple teams or portfolios in a hybrid business and technology organization
• Experience coaching senior leaders and senior individual contributors as a trusted advisor
• Strong grounding in product management, delivery management, engineering, or design, with the ability to coach across domains
• Ability to engage leaders with respectful candor and help improve judgment, clarity, and accountability
• You value principles over frameworks

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out

• Ability to design practical learning experiences and artifacts that leaders actually use
• Comfort working with ambiguity and navigating complex, matrixed organizations
• Strong written communication skills for executive and leader-facing materials
• Experience supporting large-scale change initiatives or learning journeys

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

$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

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.

Date First Posted (TTF)

5/11/2026

Latest Post Date: Careers - US

6/3/2026

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