About The Position
Apple Services Engineering (ASE) enables Apple’s apps and services at scale, serving hundreds of millions of customers in more than 35 languages and over 150 countries. The ASE Security team is seeking an experienced Security Engineering Program Manager to help manage and scale its Strategic Risk Security team. The role manages delivery of security controls, guardrails, and frameworks that protect customer data in Apple’s infrastructure and helps develop solutions to security risks affecting Apple systems and data. The Engineering Program Manager leads program delivery for a team combining solutions engineering, architecture review, and advanced threat analysis to safeguard customer data and accounts worldwide. Acting as the team’s operational backbone, the role turns technical analysis into structured plans; coordinates discovery sessions; leads post-incident follow-through to establish preventative controls; manages proactive risk mitigation roadmaps; and provides engineering leadership with visibility and data for informed risk decisions. The role operationalizes cross-functional security initiatives and programs requiring security-domain, systems, and engineering knowledge. It manages dependencies, risks, and changes while optimizing scope, schedule, and resources; creates project plans that build consistency, clarity, and alignment; and collaborates with senior engineers to distill complex requirements, identify trade-offs, anticipate roadblocks, and help shape technical direction across the software development lifecycle. It also influences peers and stakeholders, builds consensus amid ambiguity, owns communication plans, reports program health and success metrics, tracks progress, and uses data to guide strategic decisions and leadership prioritization.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience as an Engineering Program Manager or Technical Program Manager.
- At least 2 years of experience managing projects or programs in security.
- Proficiency managing complex projects, including defining scope, setting timelines, and coordinating cross-functional teams for successful, timely delivery.
- Proven ability to track large volumes of work items across many teams using metrics, clear ownership, and consistent follow-through.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent industry experience.
- Experience fostering collaboration and influencing stakeholders without direct authority.
- Ability to communicate complex technical information clearly and confidently to technical and non-technical audiences, including executive and senior leadership.
- Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs, simplify operational challenges, and design sustainable workflows.
- Ability to focus and simplify while balancing details with goals, priorities, and trade-offs.
- Familiarity with threat modeling, operational threat intelligence, common attack vectors, and frameworks.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with enterprise log collection and analysis platforms such as Splunk or OSQuery.
- Experience working with data engineers to define metrics and interpret results from detection and risk models.
Responsibilities
- Lead program delivery for the Strategic Risk Security team.
- Turn results of technical analysis into structured plans.
- Coordinate discovery sessions.
- Lead post-incident follow-through to establish preventative controls.
- Manage proactive risk mitigation roadmaps.
- Provide engineering leadership with visibility and data to support informed risk decisions.
- Operationalize cross-functional security initiatives and programs requiring security-domain, systems, and engineering-level knowledge.
- Manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and changes while optimizing scope, schedule, and resources.
- Create project plans that deliver consistency, clarity, and alignment across teams.
- Collaborate with senior engineers to distill complex requirements, identify trade-offs, anticipate roadblocks, and help shape technical direction across the software development lifecycle.
- Influence peers and stakeholders and build consensus while dealing with ambiguity.
- Develop and own communication plans to proactively communicate program status, issues, and risks to stakeholders.
- Define and report program health, success metrics, and active progress.
- Use data to drive strategic decisions and leadership-level prioritization.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
