Sr. Engineering Program Manager - Apple Services Engineering
Apple
Operations
Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Jan 8, 2025
Summary
Posted:
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200585818
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new insights have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. The Apple Services Engineering team exemplifies Apple’s long-held passion for combining art and technology. Do you believe that generative AI has the power to change how we live, work, and interact, and that privacy and security must not be sacrificed in the pursuit of those groundbreaking experiences? Do you feel a personal stake in everything that you work on, thrive in fast-paced environments with lots of ambiguity, and enjoy working with complex technologies? If so, we want to talk to you! We're seeking an experienced Engineering Program Manager to drive projects and features for the Private Cloud Compute software that powers Apple Intelligence and support integration of Apple Silicon in Apple Data Centers.
Description
We seek strong fundamentals, but require more. You foster positive relationships, build trust, and influence without direct authority. You communicate openly and clearly, collaborate enthusiastically, and value a culture of balanced debate. You thrive in uncertainty and strive to bring clarity and focus in a fast paced environment. You have a curious mind, always seeking to learn how things work. As a program manager in ASE, you will partner with engineers, system reliability engineers, marketing, legal, security, and privacy to launch features that surprise and delight our end-users and developers. This is not a task-based job; you will drive successful outcomes and delivery. We are looking for people with proven track records, depth and breadth in managing and shipping complex programs under demanding timelines. We seek a hands on technical program manager with a strong project management toolkit, who can get elbow deep in defining requirements, coordinate technical design discussions among multiple teams/partners, navigate conflict and ambiguity to execute the project to a committed timeline. YOU WILL: Drive the meetings needed to establish and document the scope of the project. Plan and maintain the cross-functional schedule for the program, establishing milestones, achievements, and work breakdowns using established templates Partner with Engineering Managers to ensure the work is prioritized to meet the project expectations and offer data and planning expertise for working through prioritization challenges Participate and facilitate teams working through technical challenges and decisions. Remain curious to understand and be able to represent the overall system design independently Establish and document known risks, dependencies, and other information central to the project as required Partner with Engineering Managers as an informed product / service / framework stakeholder to participate in feature ideas, insights, and feedback Drive the collaboration with other teams within the org and across Apple including Security, Legal, Privacy and Finance
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of technical program/project management for software or software/hardware products
- Have personally orchestrated the delivery of multiple significant client/server software products, under demanding timelines, handling multiple work streams cross functionally across a large organization
- Naturally accountable and responsible
- Self-starter, self-motivated, focused, self-sufficient
- Strong communication and presentation skills, written and verbal, to all levels of an organization
- Strong facilitation skills (requirements sessions; design meetings; plan and track and progress meetings)
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong technical proficiency: Client/server product development and bonus points for past programming experience
- BS/MS/PhD CS/CE/EE or equivalent
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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