Engineering Program Manager, Apple
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$136.3-205.5k
Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan; subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program
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1001+ employees
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$136.3-205.5k
Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan; subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program
1001+ employees
Company mission
Apple's mission is to bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a strong Engineering Program Manager with a track record of building and maintaining sophisticated software platforms, tools and processes that deliver new end-to-end experiences that delight customers
- Skilled in Program or Project Management, QA management, or similar role leading cross-functional product or software engineering teams
- Experience bringing a product from concept to completion, ideally related to joining together the complex backend and front-end systems with the user experience in mind
- Excellent project management skills including project structuring and leading multiple work streams interdependently
- Understanding of software development lifecycle and quality metrics
- Self-sufficient in analyzing and drawing conclusions about quality from raw and refined data. Self-motivated and proactive, with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills, written and verbal, to all levels of an organization
- Ability to independently draft and present deliverables, recommendations and communication strategies
- Experience shipping AI/ML products/projects
- BS/MS/PhD EE/CS/CE or equivalent
Desirable
- MBA preferred; experience as a business teaching assistant or in a faculty position is a plus
What the job involves
- You would work with top tier engineering and product teams to serve over 1 billion customers, crafting the highest quality user experience that Apple customers expect and love
- You would drive search relevance, machine learning, and user experience improvement projects to build and improve end-to-end information products on all major Apple platforms including iPhone, CarPlay, macOS, and HomePod
- As a Program Manager, you will lead program management efforts for Search and Information in Siri, Spotlight, and Safari
- You will coordinate and drive early engagements on product architecture, feature definition and program execution
- This includes collaborating with all partner organizations relevant for a project
- Communicate: Provide clear, timely and objective communication, including regular program status updates and critical issues as needed to executive team
- Coordinate: Coordinate discussions and break down complex issues into discussion topics to drive engineering and design alignment with support from project team, maintaining an orientation toward teamwork and collaboration
- Plan: Create and run project timeline with clear dependencies, critical path and systematic methodology to communicate status
- Handle risks and mitigations, and re- plan as events warrant
- Drive alignment across the organization and between teams
- Execute: Drive on time delivery and deployment, identifying development and feasibility needs, establishing achievements for checkpoints and status updates
- Problem solve: Proactively identify issues and solutions, and marshal resources necessary to attack and resolve
- Coordinate with teams to identify issues, prioritize tasks and track risks to schedule and product quality, including cross-functional dependencies
Our take
With a market capitalisation that reached $3 trillion in 2022, Apple is the world's most valuable company. A vertically integrated approach and obsessive focus on the user experience have helped to make Apple one of the most successful companies in the world.
Since taking over at Apple, Tim Cook has been carefully curating the company's reputation as a champion of consumer privacy, trying to set the company apart from others that monetise their users' data.
The company even went as far as to introduce sweeping privacy changes which made it difficult to tailor ads to Apple’s 1bn+ iPhone users. This rocked the $400bn digital ads market, seriously harming the revenue of its bigger rivals in the lucrative industry and forcing them to rebuild their ad infrastructure.
Despite this, the company has been shaken by supply chain issues and moved a considerable amount of its manufacturing from China to India, and increased its Vietnam presence. This is because of multi-pronged production disruption in China, the second largest customer market for Apple, and triggered an estimated 10% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2023.
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Company benefits
- Everyone has different needs and schedules, and that’s why we offer medical plans that cover both physical and mental healthcare
- In addition, employees have the option to access medical professionals from almost anywhere and get free confidential counselling — virtual or in person
- You could also be eligible for help with fitness-related expenses
- Our medical coverage plans include family-friendly features such as fertility treatments
- Because we know there’s more than one way to bring a new child into your family, we support all kinds of new parents with paid leave and our gradual return-to-work programme
- You also get paid time away if you need to care for an ill family member and free guidance to help you find support for childcare, elderly care, legal referrals and more
- At Apple, we make sure women earn the same as men performing similar work. As part of that effort, your salary history is history — we won’t ask
- Every employee here also has the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder, because all are eligible for stock grants and also a discount when purchasing Apple stock
- To help you prepare for retirement, our pension can help you meet your savings goals. And to help you prepare for the unexpected, you’ll have the security of multiple forms of income protection
- Plan on developing both professionally and personally. Apple University creates classes, seminars and beyond-the-classroom tools that help employees understand Apple’s culture, organisation, values, and role in the world. You can sharpen general business and software skills through online classes
- For more formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, we’ll reimburse you for certain educational expenses, including tuition
- Whether you’re exploring personal pursuits, welcoming a new child or caring for a family member, rest assured that you’ll have paid time away when you need it most
- When you give money to an eligible organisation, we’ll match your donations one-for-one, so your contribution is doubled. And if you choose to donate your time, we’ll contribute US$25 for every hour you volunteer. Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match your contributions up to US$10,000 a year
- Get the world’s best prices on the world’s best products — Apple products. You’ll also get deals on great third-party accessories
- And there are services to help you manage life’s day-to-day tasks: dinner reservations, pet-sitters, shopping, personal travel, financial guidance and more
Company values
- We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products
- We believe in the simple, not the complex
- We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make
- We participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution
- We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us
- We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot
- We don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change
Company HQ
Cupertino, CA
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Leadership
Tim Cook
(CEO, not founder)Joined Apple in 1998 and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO in 2011. Previously Spent 12 years with IBM, most recently as director of North American Fulfilment, where he led manufacturing and distribution functions for IBM’s Personal Computer Company in North and Latin America
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