Principal Financial Group

What You'll Do: Are you passionate about helping people and organizations put AI and analytics into practice? Do you enjoy connecting business needs with emerging technology and helping teams build confidence in new ways of working?   We are looking for a Data & Analytics Consultant to join the Benefits & Protection Data & Analytics team. In this role, you will help advance AI literacy, adoption, visibility, and organizational readiness across Benefits & Protection while supporting the broader adoption of analytics, AI, and emerging D&A capabilities.  As part of the Analytics Consulting team, you'll partner across business, product, technology, and analytics teams to evaluate opportunities, translate between stakeholders, and enable sustainable adoption of D&A capabilities.   What You'll Do Advance AI literacy and organizational readiness through practical education, coaching, and enablement activities. Facilitate workshops,...

What You'll Do: This role drives strategic compliance programs for the Registered Investment Adviser and Broker Dealer for the retail product and service distribution of Principal Securities by leading a practice group accountable for retail distribution support. Responsibilities include setting compliance practice group direction, conducting complex risk assessments, overseeing compliance monitoring, regular business and compliance project engagement, and advising senior leaders on regulatory developments applicable in the space. The individual leads a practice group that contributes to policy and training strategies, leads process redesign, and collaborates across business areas. As a key liaison with Principals Securities, the role influences best practices.   Additional responsibilities include setting team goals, developing staff, managing performance, fostering collaboration, and ensuring successful delivery of compliance initiatives across business units. Data Analysis...

What You'll Do: Join our Benefits & Protection Compliance team as a Compliance Analyst supporting regulatory excellence in the life and disability insurance space! You'll partner with business leaders to ensure compliance with laws and regulations and help enhance our compliance testing programs. Assist business partners and compliance leadership with legal, regulatory, and operational issues. Assist with targeted testing across both life and disability insurance products. Prepare and submit timely regulatory reports and filings to relevant authorities as required. Respond to requests for information relating to regulatory examinations, surveys, and inquiries. Analyze compliance data and provide insights to drive informed decision-making. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop practical, risk-aware solutions. Review and strengthen compliance controls and business processes. Evaluate insurance operations, including SEC Rule 38a-1...

What You'll Do: As a Sr Engineer II (Team Leader, Model Operations & Enablement), you will lead the team that builds and operates Principal's Enterprise AI pipeline platforms — the platform our builders rely on to deploy, monitor, and maintain AI models in production. You will work closely with data science, engineering, and business stakeholders across our company to standardize how models move from idea to production and stay healthy once they're there.   Key Responsibilities: Lead the MOE team and grow its capabilities to own and design all layers of the model operations stack. Model training (AWS SageMaker, XGBoost, Scikit-Learn, PyTorch), CI/CD deployment, real-time and batch inference serving, and production monitoring Own and continually reduce the complexity of the enterprise AI pipeline, including AWS (Glue, S3, SageMaker, IAM), the Snowflake-based Enterprise Data Foundation (EDF), and model registry Set short- to medium-term strategic direction for...

What You'll Do: We're looking for an Associate Actuary to join our Bermuda actuarial team. In this role, you'll support a wide range of actuarial and financial initiatives across Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) underwriting, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), capital management, and risk management activities. Working closely with business leaders in both Bermuda and the U.S., you'll provide analytical support for strategic transactions, financial forecasting, regulatory initiatives, and special projects.   This role is based in the United States and requires quarterly travel to Bermuda (approximately 1-2 weeks per quarter).   You'll Have the Opportunity To: Support pricing, underwriting, and transaction analysis for Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) and Term Life, including experience studies, profitability analysis, and management reporting. Assist in the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) process, including budgeting, forecasting, earnings analysis,...

What You'll Do: Are you looking for a unique opportunity to make a significant impact as a Client Relationship Consultant in Group Benefits? If you are a highly motivated and ambitious professional, we have an exceptional role for you! We are seeking top talent in the Detroit, MI area for this opening.   At Principal Financial Group, we are committed to delivering flawless service and providing world-class solutions to our clients. As a Client Relationship Consultant, you will play a critical role in partnering closely with our Sales team and top-level Broker partners to develop and implement customized strategies. Your main responsibilities will include: Delivering upon a strategic relationship plan that includes quarterly/annual goals Providing expert renewal analysis & delivery Delivering outstanding service and selling new lines of business In this role, you will have the opportunity to establish yourself as a knowledgeable industry expert and...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for an Investment Operations Analyst to join our Custom Investment Operations team. In this role, you'll perform daily trading controls and self-identify analysis needs to ensure financial transactions are handled timely and accurately. You will support the department and internal business partners by answering questions regarding custom investments as well as detect and address advanced problems with minimal mentorship. You will also participate and/or provide support on project initiatives. Your responsibilities include but are not limited to investment onboarding, trade reconciliation, statistical control reporting, compliance evidence reporting, regulatory support activities, supporting system enhancements and/or process improvement initiatives through development and implementation.   • Independently implement and resolve reconciliation problems between recordkeeping, accounting, broker/dealer and/or pricing system with minimal guidance....

What You'll Do: Are you looking for a unique opportunity to make a significant impact as a Client Relationship Consultant in Group Benefits? If you are a highly motivated and ambitious professional, we have an exceptional role for you! We are seeking top talent in the Pittsburgh, PA or Cleveland, OH area for this opening. At Principal Financial Group, we are committed to delivering flawless service and providing world-class solutions to our clients. As a Client Relationship Consultant, you will play a critical role in partnering closely with our Sales team and top-level Broker partners to develop and implement customized strategies. Your main responsibilities will include: Delivering upon a strategic relationship plan that includes quarterly/annual goals Providing expert renewal analysis & delivery Delivering outstanding service and selling new lines of business In this role, you will have the opportunity to establish yourself as a knowledgeable industry...

What You'll Do: Come join Principal’s Workplace Benefits, Sales Internship Program (Summer 2027)! As a sales intern, you’ll be teaming up with our Workplace Benefits sales team to provide sales support, assist with projects, and collaborate with other sales interns across the organization. This role is given the opportunity to assist our regional sales offices, while learning how we distribute and support our group insurance customers. By partnering on these tasks, we anticipate you will be directly impacting territory sales and overall business unit success! In this role, you'll get a first-hand look at what it takes to be successful in a sales-minded career in the future.   This position partners with many areas within Principal which includes teams like underwriting, new business, marketing, administration, product, sales and compensation, among others. Getting to know the many areas in our organization is a great way to learn and develop your skills and build lasting...

What You'll Do: Come join Principal’s Retirement & Income Solutions, Sales Internship Program (Summer 2027) ! As a sales intern, you’ll be teaming up with our Retirement sales team members to provide sales support, account management assistance, and intermediary support. During this paid internship, you will work full time, while enhancing and applying your sales skills and developing professionally.   This role is given the opportunity to assist our regional sales offices, while learning how we distribute and support our retirement plan business. In this role, you'll get a first-hand look at what it takes to be successful in a sales-driven career in the future. The locations we are looking to fill in are: Des Moines, IA Denver, CO Philadelphia, PA Washington D.C. 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,...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for a Senior Director to join our Internal Audit team! In this role, you'll provide executive leadership for Internal Audit coverage of one or more core businesses, enterprise functions, regions, or regulated legal entities. As a direct report to the Chief Internal Auditor, the Senior Director shares accountability for the strategy, performance, quality, operating effectiveness, talent, and sustained credibility of the Internal Audit function. The role converts enterprise strategy, business and regulatory developments, and emerging risk into a dynamic portfolio of independent assurance and advice; delivers clear audit opinions and enterprise insight; and exercises significant judgment and delegated authority in matters affecting executives, boards, regulators, and the company’s control environment. For assigned businesses or legal entities, serves as the senior Internal Audit executive and delegated representative of the Chief Internal Auditor, with...

What You'll Do: Principal's Global Equity team is seeking an experienced Equity Analyst to provide research coverage across the U.S. software sector. This high-visibility role partners directly with portfolio managers and analysts across the platform to generate differentiated investment insights and drive portfolio outcomes. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to influence investment decisions across multiple strategies while developing as a future investment leader. In this role, you’ll be able to: Generate alpha through investment recommendations based upon in-depth, detailed proprietary analysis of software companies, with a specific focus on large- and mid- cap companies in the U.S. Interact frequently with company management, industry experts, and other stakeholders to gather differentiated and convicted qualitative and quantitative insights Partner closely with TMT sector team lead, analysts, and portfolio managers to provide outperformance...

What You'll Do: We're looking for a Senior Participant Experience Consultant to join our Participant Experience Consulting team. In this role, you'll develop and deliver data-driven communication and education strategies that help participants make informed retirement decisions and improve retirement outcomes. As a trusted consultant and subject-matter expert, you'll partner with plan sponsors, advisors/consultants, client service teams, and internal partners to implement participant engagement solutions, guide best-practice adoption, and translate insights into actionable strategies. This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about communication strategy, enhancing the participant experience, and improving participant outcomes.   Serve as subject-matter expert on the Principal Participant Experience, applying knowledge of behavioral finance, communication best practices, and participant research to guide plan sponsors, advisor/consultants, and internal partners....

What You'll Do: The Principal Custody Solutions (PCS) Workflow team is hiring a Workflow Software Engineer to join their team!  This role builds and supports automation solutions, integrating with databases and APIs, and collaborates closely with delivery and partner teams with a focus on driving measurable improvements in quality and operational efficiency. Partner with business stakeholders to gather requirements and lead process and workflow design sessions Design, build, and test BPM workflows and automation solutions end to end Collaborate with the workflow team and other technical teams to ensure high-quality integrations and reliable solutions Monitor and maintain BPM platforms, including performance tuning, upgrades, and defect resolution Diagnose and resolve workflow or system issues while providing ongoing technical support Create and maintain documentation for workflows, processes, configurations, and standards  Operating at the intersection of...

What You'll Do: This role leads and consults with financial professionals to help them build their skills and grow their practice through Ohio, West Virginia and Northern Kentucky. You'll also attract and develop top-tier talent to our team; It is a great opportunity to build an intentional culture! Here are few examples of what you’ll do: Develop a profitable business center by attracting, training, motivating and retaining advisors. Achieve specified goals in recruiting and retention of advisors, production, persistency, business conduct, and expense management in accordance with business center and company key objectives. In April, we were named to the Forbes list of America’s Best Employers for Diversity in 2026. This is our seventh year on the list.   Apply today! Who You Are: Requires bachelor degree or eight years of equivalent experience. 4+ years related work experience, including sales and management.  Recruiting of experienced financial...

What You'll Do: The New Business Consultant is instrumental to the success of regional sales offices by building partnerships with our financial professionals, accurately onboarding new client accounts, managing account openings and asset movement requests with broker-dealer, and serving as a point of contact between financial professionals, product partners, and custodians.   Here are a few examples of the kinds of things you’ll do: Provide training to financial professionals for new business protocols and technology fundamentals. Assist in the onboarding of new clients by accurately preparing and processing insurance, annuity, and investment account applications. Manage account openings and asset movement requests with broker dealer. Utilize industry technology, such as Salesforce CRM and proprietary product platforms to create, track, manage, and complete tasks related to new business operations. Implement and manage systems to track multiple time sensitive...

What You'll Do: As a Regional Managing Director, you’ll partner closely with your leaders to develop and attract new and top-tier professionals to get results and build an intentional culture!   Here are few examples of the kinds of things you’ll do: Develop a profitable business center by attracting, training, motivating and retaining advisors. Provide day-to-day leadership and business development. Achieve specified goals in recruiting and retention of advisors, production, persistency, business conduct, and expense management in accordance with business center and company key objectives. In April, we were named to the Forbes list of America’s Best Employers for Diversity in 2026. This is our seventh year on the list.   Apply today! Who You Are: Requires bachelor degree or equivalent. 8+ years related work experience, including sales and management. Must have a broad knowledge of sales techniques, as well as regulations governing insurance and...

What You'll Do: At Principal, our sourcing professionals help drive business value through strategic supplier partnerships, thoughtful contract negotiations, and effective management of enterprise technology spend.   As a Lead Technology Sourcing Consultant supporting our Principal Asset Management business , you'll serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders, partnering across the organization to develop sourcing strategies, optimize supplier relationships, and negotiate complex technology agreements that support business objectives. You'll manage a broad portfolio of technology-related spend, including hardware, software, SaaS, cloud solutions, and technology services. In this highly visible role, you'll work closely with business stakeholders, legal partners, and suppliers to deliver innovative solutions, manage risk, and maximize value.   Key Responsibilities Develop and execute sourcing strategies that align with business priorities and long-term...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for an AVP & Actuary to join our Benefits & Protection Financial Reporting team. In this role, you’ll lead and oversee key financial processes to obtain strategic growth and expected profitability for the Benefits & Protection Specialty Benefits segment. Support principles of balanced scorecard philosophy by (1) meeting financial goals (financial perspective); (2) ensuring highest quality customer service is provided (customer perspective); (3) focusing on internal process improvements (internal perspective); and (4) maximizing utilization of human capital (learning and growth perspective).   Support B&P Specialty Benefits Strategic Imperatives Part of Worksite Benefits Leadership team driving strategic imperatives Act as trusted and strategic advisor to Worksite Benefits segment Drive financial outcomes and KPI measures of success Influence and advocate for investments that drive value and future growth Oversee Core...

What You'll Do: We’re looking for a Corporate Strategy & Development Director to join our Corporate Strategy and Development team. In this role, you will lead complex strategy and transaction initiatives that contribute to Principal’s long-term growth, profitability, and competitive position. This role will work flexibly across a broad range of enterprise and business-unit priorities, including mergers and acquisitions. Assignments may span different businesses, geographies, and strategic questions, requiring the ability to quickly orient to new subject matter, create structure in ambiguous situations, and drive work toward clear decisions and outcomes. You will work closely with enterprise and business-unit senior leaders to evaluate strategic opportunities, develop fact-based recommendations, translate strategic ideas into actionable plans, and drive disciplined execution. The successful candidate will combine strong financial and analytical capabilities with strategic...