Product Manager, iPhone

Apple•Cupertino, CA

About The Position

As a Product Manager on Apple’s iPhone Worldwide Product team, you will represent the customer voice during product development and help shape the future of iPhone. Apple combines product management and product marketing responsibilities in this cross-functional role, collaborating with teams across design, engineering, finance, legal, marketing communications, public relations, market research, sales, and support. You will contribute throughout the product development cycle, from inception to launch, and help create product launch stories and communicate product value to the media.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in product management, product strategy, and/or product marketing, including experience managing a complex product portfolio.
Hands-on experience formulating product messaging and creating outbound marketing for technical and consumer audiences.
Experience partnering with engineering during early research and development to define product strategy and roadmaps, and with marketing and public relations to craft positioning and define marketing activities.
Recent experience within the last three years in emerging hardware technologies and development, consumer electronics, camera or display modules, or an adjacent area.
Exceptional presentation skills, including the ability to develop keynote addresses in an area of deep subject matter expertise, synthesize information, apply critical thinking, and maintain composure under pressure.
Track record of working closely with engineering or technical teams from an inbound product management perspective, including during early research and development.
Ability and willingness to travel approximately 10% annually, domestically and internationally.
Ability to synthesize technologies into product communications for broad audiences, including customers, media, analysts, photographers, filmmakers, and industry experts.
Strong analytical abilities and uncompromising attention to detail, with the ability to move between highly detailed technical situations and strategic business situations.
Previous experience briefing press, media, and/or content creators.
BS/BA degree.

Nice To Haves

MBA.
Background or education in photography or film.

Responsibilities

Work with a global cross-functional team to define the future iPhone.
Partner with engineering, industrial design, operations, finance, public relations, and marketing communications throughout the product development cycle, from inception to launch.
Understand product technologies in depth and communicate them clearly.
Collect global customer and partner requirements for future product development.
Manage trade-offs involving features, schedule, cost, pricing, product-line positioning, and lifecycle management.
Identify new product development opportunities and contribute to the overall iPhone product line strategy.
Develop expert knowledge of competitive and third-party products around the world.
Contribute pricing and forecasting recommendations to executive and cross-functional teams.
Communicate and position the product in relation to other products and the competition.
Define product positioning and key product messages.
Work with marketing communications and public relations on product launch activities, press releases, and marketing materials.
Travel to Apple launch events and participate in press briefings as a product ambassador.
Follow emerging technology, consumer, and societal trends and recommend how products can leverage or fit those trends.