Engineering Program Manager, Private Cloud Compute -  Apple Services Engineering (ASE)

Apple•Cupertino, CA

About The Position

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas 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. We seek strong fundamentals, but require more. You foster strong relationships, build trust, and influence without direct authority. You communicate openly and clearly, collaborate enthusiastically, and value a culture of healthy debate. You thrive in uncertainty and strive to bring clarity and focus in a fast paced environment. Technically curious you will autonomously lead projects of varying scale and complexity with cross-functional development and SRE teams with only consultative direction from leadership. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree or equivalent work experience in project management or Cloud, AI engineering
5+ years of experience in program / project management successfully leading highly cross-functional software development
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
Experience as a project lead, able to focus and simplify, balancing the details with goals, priorities, and trade-offs in mind
Strong facilitation skills (requirements sessions; design meetings; plan and track and progress meetings)
Strong technical proficiency: Client/server product development and bonus points for past programming experience
Have personally orchestrated the delivery of multiple significant client/server software products, under demanding timelines, managing multiple work streams cross functionally across a large organization