AIML - Sr Engineering Program Manager, Siri Perception

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Do you love taking on challenges that create a positive impact? Are you passionate about powering many ground-breaking intelligent experiences to be made? The Siri Assistant team is building groundbreaking technology, and we are looking for people like you! We’re looking for a strong Engineering Program Manager with a solid track record of building and maintaining sophisticated software platforms, tools, and processes that deliver new end-to-end experiences that delight customers. As part of the Perception team, you will shape how users invoke and interact with Siri.

Description

This role is for a problem solver who is excited by defining and driving an impeccable user experience. You will coordinate and drive early engagements on product architecture, feature definition, and program execution. This includes collaborating with all partner organizations relevant for a project. You will:

1. Communicate: Provide clear, timely, and objective communication, including regular program status updates and critical issues as needed to the executive team.
2. Coordinate: Coordinate discussions and break down complex issues into discussion topics to drive engineering and design alignment with support from the project team, maintaining an orientation toward teamwork and collaboration.
3. Plan: Create and manage project timelines with clear dependencies, critical path, and systematic methodology to communicate status. Manage risks and mitigations, and re-plan as events warrant. Drive alignment across the organization and between teams.
4. Execute: Drive on-time delivery and deployment, identifying development and feasibility needs, establishing achievements for checkpoints and status updates.
5. Problem solve: Proactively identify issues and solutions, and marshal resources necessary to attack and resolve. Coordinate with teams to identify issues, prioritize tasks, and track risks to schedule and product quality, including cross-functional dependencies.
6. Drive product decisions: Define and analyze relevant metrics to measure performance and use this data to manage prioritization and trade-offs among needs of various customer and partner groups, as well as system performance and scalability.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in product or program management.
• Excellent project management skills including project structuring and managing multiple work streams interdependently.
• Ability to communicate abstract ideas clearly and independently manage complex project objectives.
• Ability to independently draft and present deliverables, recommendations, and communication strategies, and influence.
• Strong analytical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving skills.
• Have personally orchestrated the delivery of multiple significant ML-driven products requiring medium organizations (50+) to execute.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with voice assistant technology.
• Experience shipping ML powered end-user products.

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $165,500 and $293,800, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation, and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.