Ecosystem Platforms and Partnerships - System EPM

Apple

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About The Position

Ecosystem Products and Partnerships develops, scales, and delivers hardware products, accessories, and partner-integrated devices that expand and enrich Apple’s product ecosystem, including Home, Beats, and third-party accessories. Apple is seeking a self-driven, passionate APAC Engineering Program Manager to run projects during the NPI stage, primarily for Home and Beats accessory products, with potential opportunities involving third-party joint design. The role works closely with contract manufacturers, upstream vendors, cross-functional teams, and Apple and partner management to coordinate build readiness and deliver builds on time and to quality. Extensive travel within China and Vietnam, up to 50%, is required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Project Management, or a related field.
• Track record of running technical programs and collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Fluency in English and Mandarin, with excellent presentation and written communication skills.
• Ability to travel extensively, up to 50%, within China and Vietnam.
• Expertise in consumer electronics manufacturing, with at least 3 years of relevant industry experience.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Proven ability to lead, take decisive action, and provide goal-oriented direction in ambiguous environments.
• Demonstrated comfort expressing a clear point of view and influencing change across projects, programs, and processes.
• Creative problem-solving skills and ability to thrive under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Work with contract manufacturers to manage daily build plans according to NPI milestones and define day-by-day activities to track overall readiness.
• Work closely with upstream vendors to capture cross-functional team design updates.
• Ensure materials arrive at FATP on time and are incorporated into the build plan.
• Monitor equipment and fixture buy-off status with cross-functional teams, including quality inspection, assembly, and testing.
• Create and maintain the build matrix to reflect the latest cross-functional team requests and DOE arrangements, with clear traceability of deviations involving materials, assembly, and testing.
• Host daily build opening and closing meetings, aligning on build recipe, test rules, I/O, major issues, and failure-analysis progress to ensure on-time, on-quality build deliverables.
• Consolidate cross-functional team allocation and data-collection requests for unit-routing management.
• Review quotations and manage budget and purchase requisition requests and approvals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time