Summary
Posted: Aug 13, 2024
Role Number:200517734
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Do you love taking on challenges that create a positive impact? Are you passionate about empowering many ground-breaking intelligent experiences to be made? The Siri Assistant team is building groundbreaking technology... and we are looking for people like you! We're looking for a strong Engineering Program Manager who will lead cross functional, large scale Natural Language Understanding technologies for Apple products, such as Siri. This individual needs a solid track record building and maintaining complex software and machine learning pipelines, platforms, tools and processes that deliver end-to-end experiences that delight customers.
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Description
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, You will: 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 manage project timelines with clear dependencies, critical path and systematic methodology to communicate status. Manage 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 vital to attack and resolve. Coordinate with teams to identify issues, prioritize tasks and track risks to schedule and product quality, including cross-functional dependencies
Minimum Qualifications
Key Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in project or program management shipping products driven by machine-learned systems to worldwide users
- Have personally orchestrated the delivery of multiple significant client/server software products requiring large organizations (100+) to accomplish
- Analytic mentality and obsession for data, solid understanding of metrics measuring machine learning models and overall system quality
- Excellent project management skills including project structuring and managing multiple work streams interdependently
- Detailed understanding of testing, build and release processes for sophisticated software
- Demonstrated skill of negotiating and distilling sophisticated technical requirements from multiple partners into a coherent long term platform roadmap
- Demonstrated data-driven decision-making skills, including experience leading metrics-driven projects or programs.
- Superior group facilitation, interviewing and influence skills
- Ability to communicate abstract ideas clearly, and independently manage complex project objectives
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation, presentation and influence
- Ability to independently draft and present deliverables, recommendations and communication strategies
Education & Experience
Bachelors or Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
Additional Requirements
- Prior PM or engineering experience in machine learning, natural language understanding, search Knowledge in machine learning infrastructure and data pipeline, and/or model evaluation
- M.S. or Ph.D. degree with a focus in machine learning, data mining or statistics
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 $165,500 and $293,800, 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.
More
- Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.