Engineering Program Manager, Data Engineering, Apple Services Engineering

Summary

Posted: Nov 6, 2024

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200577566

The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) team is one of the most exciting examples of Apple’s long-held passion for combining art and technology. These are the people who power the App Store, Apple TV and Sports, Apple Music, Podcasts, and Books along with Cloud and Infrastructure Services platforms. They do it throughout the year on a massive scale, meeting Apple’s high expectations with high performance to deliver a huge variety of entertainment in over 35 languages to more than 150 countries. You will partner with engineers to build innovative end-to-end solutions. With Apple’s unique integration of hardware, software, and services, Engineers and Program Managers partner to get behind a single unified vision. This vision includes a deep commitment to strengthening Apple’s privacy policy, one of Apple’s core values. Although services are a bigger part of Apple’s business, our App Store analytics team remains nimble, focused, and cross-functional, offering greater exposure to the array of opportunities. We’re a diverse collection of problem solvers and doers, continually reimagining our products, systems, and practices to help people do what they love, while outpacing challenges that face a growing organization! A successful candidate will drive initiatives from ideation through launch and build out the vision into sustainable long-term programs and products. Strong PM fundamentals are a definite requirement, and we are looking for someone with a genuine passion and patience for solving complex and dynamic problems. If you have a growth mindset, and the motivation to build critical products in a fast-paced environment – this role is for you!

Description

Our program managers are responsible for shipping new features for the App Store analytics platform. We’re looking for someone with a very strong project management toolkit to deliver multiple complex projects under demanding timelines. This is a hands-on position where the Technical Program Manager will be involved in requirements analysis, functional and technical design discussions, testing, proof-of-concept, privacy reviews, and more. This is not a task-based role; you will be responsible for the successful delivery of multiple end of end projects under demanding timelines. You will also partner with cross-geo engineers, product, marketing, design, data scientist, legal, security, privacy to launch and operate features that surprise and delight our end-users.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of proven technical program management experience in software development
• Experience with Analytics or big data engineering
• Experience with compliance, privacy, and regulatory initiatives (ex. DMA, GDPR)
• Have personally orchestrated the delivery of multiple significant client/server side projects under demanding timelines, handling multiple work streams cross functionally across a large organization
• Experience working with complex large scale datasets
• Background in Information Systems, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering majors or relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong technical aptitude and curiosity and thrives in mastering new tools or applications through self-study.
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and it’s execution using both waterfall and agile project management methodologies.
• Ability to handle multiple simultaneous technical projects and partner with the community comprising of various engineering teams and their partners
• Ability to partner with multiple product and business stakeholders to prioritize and align on the roadmap
• Translate high-level business objectives into actionable programs with well-defined metrics, milestones and success criteria
• Strong facilitation skills to successfully drive a complex, cross-functional projects.
• Ability to plan and maintain the cross-functional schedule for the program, establishing milestones, achievements, and work breakdowns.
• Keen understanding of the stages of change management along with the ability to plan for and navigate through large-scale changes.
• Comfortable in ambiguous situations to strategize the best path forward based on known information and gain alignment from key stakeholders.
• Effective planning, prioritization, and trade-off discussions to address conflicting priorities.
• Proactively engage influence and empower stakeholders on critical decisions with timely data and meaningful analysis throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ability to identify and understand the impact of potential risks and take the initiative to mitigate them.
• Highly effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to distill complex information to be easily digestible for a variety of audiences.
• Has a “can-do” attitude in all situations no task is too big or too small to handle.

Pay & Benefits

• At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $157,000 and $278,900, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
  
  Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. 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. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
  
  Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.