Manager, Engineering Program Manager, Engineering Frameworks

Apple • Cupertino, CA

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About The Position

Apple’s Platforms Apps & Technologies EPM team is seeking a manager to lead a team of five Engineering Project Managers responsible for delivery across Apple’s core developer and user-facing frameworks. The team partners with framework engineering organizations across Swift Platform Experience, Cocoa, and Accessibility, whose work includes foundational APIs and frameworks such as SwiftUI, UIKit, AppIntents, and CoreGraphics.

The manager will hire, lead, coach, inspire, and develop the team. The programs are large, complex, and highly cross-functional, bringing together framework engineering, design, first-party app teams, and system components. The team drives alignment to ship features used by millions of third-party developers and to support the quality of Apple’s own apps. Its frameworks are central to Apple Intelligence, accessibility, and platform experiences.

The role also collaborates with program management leaders across Platforms Apps & Technologies and the broader SWE organization to improve how framework software is planned and delivered at scale.

Requirements

• 5+ years of project management experience.
• 2+ years of experience managing project managers.
• Demonstrated ability to drive large, complex cross-functional software programs spanning multiple engineering organizations and release cycles.
• Strong leadership skills and a proven ability to hire, develop, coach, and inspire high-performing teams.
• Solid analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills, with strong attention to detail and schedule rigor.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to influence and drive alignment across engineering, design, and program management stakeholders.
• Experience leading process improvement initiatives and building scalable program management practices.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• Familiarity with Apple’s developer platform and framework ecosystem, such as UIKit, SwiftUI, AppKit, and Foundation.

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing programs that intersect with on-device AI or machine learning features.
• Background in accessibility, developer experience, or platform software.

Responsibilities

• Hire, lead, coach, inspire, and develop a team of five Engineering Project Managers.
• Drive delivery of programs across Apple’s core developer and user-facing frameworks.
• Lead alignment across framework engineering, design, first-party app teams, system components, and program management stakeholders.
• Partner with engineering organizations across Swift Platform Experience, Cocoa, and Accessibility.
• Collaborate with program management leaders across Platforms Apps & Technologies and the broader SWE organization to improve planning and delivery practices for framework software.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager