Principle Product Manager, Search Platform

Apple • San Francisco, CA

14h

About The Position

Apple is seeking a product leader to own the strategy for the search and grounding infrastructure that underpins its AI products. Apple's Search Platform supports how AI services find, retrieve, and ground answers for more than a billion users, and is evolving from traditional search toward retrieval-augmented generation and large language model grounding.

This high-autonomy leadership role will set the multi-year roadmap for search platform capabilities, drive zero-to-one product launches, and represent the team across Apple and with external partners. The role works with engineering and machine learning teams and influences engineers across the organization, partnering with ML, infrastructure, and product surface teams to deliver experiences used by Apple customers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience bringing products from concept to launch, including significant experience in machine-learned systems, search infrastructure, or complex backend/frontend platforms.
• 3+ years of people management experience, including recruiting, developing, and leading teams of product managers.
• Deep understanding of scaled search systems, retrieval-augmented generation, grounding services, and evaluation methodologies.
• Deep understanding of software development for artificial intelligence and machine-learned products and services, and how analytics and evaluation data can improve those products.
• Proficiency analyzing raw and refined product data to identify opportunities and measure impact.
• Proven ability to translate product vision and business goals into technical requirements for large-scale, zero-to-one launches.
• Proven ability to align product roadmaps across large, matrixed organizations while applying sound judgment to technical details.
• Outstanding written, verbal communication, and presentation skills at all organizational levels, from engineering teams to executive leadership.
• BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree.
• Experience working on a global-scale search service.
• Experience building developer APIs for first- and third-party technical platforms.
• MBA, M.S., or Ph.D. focused on machine learning, data mining, or statistics.
• Prior product management experience in speech recognition, natural language understanding, search, data pipelines, and/or A/B testing.
• Director-level or above product management experience at a top technology company.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy for search and grounding infrastructure underpinning Apple's AI products.
• Set the multi-year roadmap for search platform capabilities.
• Drive zero-to-one product launches.
• Represent the team across Apple and with external partners.
• Partner with engineering, machine learning, infrastructure, and product surface teams to deliver customer experiences.
• Align product roadmaps across large, matrixed organizations and translate product vision and business goals into technical requirements.

What This Job Offers

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