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What You'll Do

Are you passionate about using AI to help solve business problems? Are you an analytic problem solver who can drive solutions by thinking creatively, prioritizing, and innovating? We are seeking a Data & Analytics Consultant to join our enterprise team and help drive the adoption and impact of our generative AI and language AI solutions. In this role, you will serve as a bridge between our technical experts and business partners, ensuring effective communication and alignment of objectives. You'll play a critical role in translating complex data science concepts into business-friendly language, guiding art of the possible discussions, driving adoption of analytics-driven strategies, and maximizing the impact of our analytics solutions.

• Work closely with stakeholders to understand their business objectives and challenges; find opportunities for advanced analytics, particularly NLP (Natural Language Processing) and GenAI techniques, to create scalable solutions.

• Develop and nurture relationships of peers and business partners to foster collaboration.

• Support and influence value quantification, prioritization and resource decisions.

• Collaborate with multi-functional teams, including data scientists, engineers, and business operations, to understand interdependencies and ensure data science solutions meet business partner needs.

• Manage multiple concurrent priorities given competing timelines and thrive in a fast paced, dynamic environment.

• Understand business objectives, processes, and drivers and is an active participant in strategic discussions to gather requirements, clarify scope, prioritize deliverables and document other functional or technical requirements.

• Provide technical and business mentorship to business partners, both within the business and across the enterprise.

• Partner with analytics teams, from business intelligence to data science, to support modeling and sophisticated analytics demonstrating your business and technical expertise.

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

• You have a Bachelor’s degree (studies related to data science, predictive analytics or statistics/mathematics is a plus) and 5+ years of related analytics, consulting, project management, or equivalent experience

• You have advanced consulting techniques, roles, and responsibilities in providing technical or business guidance to clients, both within the business and across the enterprise

• You are adaptable to changing strategies and enjoy collaborating with business and technical teams

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out

• Knowledge of data science and AI techniques and tools and the data science product development life cycle; Experience consulting or working on data science or AI projects; Commitment to ongoing learning around advancements in AI technology and tools.

• Ability to synthesize large amounts of complex data into meaningful conclusions and recommendations to business clients; effectively communicate to a variety of partners through presentations, slide decks and emails.

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)

$95200 - $182400 / 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

Our Engineering Culture

Through our product-driven Agile/Lean DevOps environment, we’ve fostered a culture of innovation and experimentation across our development teams. As a customer-focused organization, we work closely with our end users and product owners to understand and rapidly respond to emerging business needs.

Collaboration is embedded into everything we do – from the products we develop to the quality service we provide. We’re driven by the belief that diversity of thought, background, and perspective is critical to creating the best products and experiences for our customers.

Work Environments

This role offers in-office or hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek) from our Des Moines, IA headquarters.

Job Level

We’ll consider talent at the next level with the right experiences and skills.

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 (https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary-nonimmigrant-workers) and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants (https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/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 (https://www.principal.com/about-us/careers) 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

7/19/2024

Most Recently Posted Date

7/19/2024

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