Summary
Posted: Nov 23, 2024
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200580572
Apple is a place where extraordinary people gravitate to do their life's best work. Together we craft products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined - and now can't imagine living without. Apple Maps is an immersive, engaging and useful tool that aids in discovering new places and exploring new experiences. Maps help define our communities and highlight what is of cultural importance. We are looking for an executive to lead our Program Management (PM) function, a diverse and versatile, horizontally-aligned team that plays a crucial role in building some of the most impactful products and services on the planet.
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Description
Your team is responsible for end-to-end projects - concept to launch - for products and features that will surprise and delight Apple customers. You will operate as an inspired leader who helps establish and maintain an environment of empowered teams. You are responsible for structures and systems that ensure delivery, bring alignment, encourage innovation, and produce continuous process improvement. Key responsibilities include: Attract, develop and lead an elite team of highly skilled Program Managers, providing guidance, mentorship and support. Collaborate and facilitate complex work across globally distributed teams, including Platform, server-side and client app Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Hardware Technologies, Data Science, Product Management, Business Development, Business Operations, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Partner Engineering and others. Get into the details and lead sometimes technical discussions toward successful outcomes despite ambiguous requirements and multiple viewpoints. Identify interdependencies between various internal and external partner groups to ensure alignment and efficiency. Proactively identify risks, communicate often and collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to define mitigation plans and drive resolution.
Minimum Qualifications
- 15+ years experience in software development Program Management with 10+ years experience leading Program Management teams.
- Experience shipping consumer-focused software features and products at the scale of the internet, across multiple countries with diverse cultural and regulatory environments.
- Extraordinary collaboration skills, excelling at high-level thinking and execution, pragmatically influencing and inspiring others to achieve ambitious goals.
- Technical intuition and understanding of engineering concepts with the demonstrated ability to grasp complex design and process problems and distill them into simple instructions.
- BS or equivalent work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Track record of fighting for excellence, ensuring high quality work by empowering and influencing others to do their best work, sometimes pushing them further than they expected was possible.
- Ability to focus and simplify. Demonstrate expertise in being able to distill complex, multifaceted problems into accessible, solvable actions.
- Inquisitive by nature, stay curious and role model a desire for continued self-improvement and development of new skills over the course of your career.
- Commitment to innovating down to the details. Pay attention to the little things and show enthusiasm to zoom into roadblocks that are hindering forward progress. Find creative solutions that allow the team to overcome setbacks and make the product better in the process.
- Dedication to instilling candor and resilience. Motivate your team and partners to keep going and make progress, despite challenges. Be proactive and transparent in your communication and be willing to deliver concerns or discouraging news in a productive, solution-oriented manner.
- Mindset of planning for scale and succession. Think beyond short-term wins and needs of the moment. Prepare your team and partner organizations for new challenges that arise from changes in scale, scope and succession.
- Current or prior Program Management leadership experience at Apple is highly desired.
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 $284,900 and $455,200, 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.