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At Apple we work every day to build products that enrich people s lives Our Advertising Platforms group makes it possible for people around the world to easily access insightful and imaginative content on their devices while helping publishers and developers promote and monetize their work Our platforms are highly performant deployed at scale and set new standards for enabling effective advertising while protecting user privacy Description The Ad Platforms team is looking for a highly-functioning self-driven detail oriented and versatile EPM leader to join our team to lead complex portfolio and drive successful delivery of cross functional programs that are key to our products performance and business growth As part of the EPM team you will be responsible for leading complex programs and platforms while ensuring alignment with the business goals You will be encouraged to ensure that all deliverables adhere to the highest levels of privacy and security standards that Apple holds This is a leadership role that requires product management mindset platform management capabilities project management skills technical depth and ability to collaborate across teams You will partner with product managers technical leaders and architects to define the backlog You will drive the planning and will navigate through project dependencies risks and deliver measurable outcomes against timelines in a fast-paced environment You will have the opportunity to collaborate closely with engineers and architects to define refine and or refactor approaches designs and architectures and apply relevant prior experiences to address new and exciting challenges that face the organization in the future You will also partner cross-functionally with other EPMs engineering teams product managers and business operations to drive projects to successful completion Responsibilities Lead cross-functional engineering programs and implement ensuring alignment with strategic goals Work closely with leadership to form strategic plans and contribute towards overall technology direction This includes technical debt assessment strategy and tracking Partner with EPM engineering and product teams to identify product and technical requirements and lead through project dependencies and delivery milestones Negotiate the sequencing and timing of delivery with technology leadership product and engineering teams Ability to assess delivery risks propose and take action on mitigations and raise to the technology leadership team if needed Apply knowledge of our architectures to plan drive and deliver key initiatives Project planning tracking and reporting using suitable methodologies Develop and implement communication strategies for advising our organization of critical updates their timing impacts and success and failure Understand and articulate delivery impact to stakeholders such as end consumers the business and other Apple teams Have familiarity and prior experience with Agile projects and programs As the EPM you are expected to coach and mentor your team in Agile methodologies while tailoring the specifics to work well with Apple s ecosystem toolsets and methods Minimum Qualifications Minimum of 8 years of project experiences with scalable platforms and resilient architectures Experiences with low latency architectures cloud architectures and or machine learning platforms is strongly preferred Minimum of 5 years of experiences in roles such as a Technical Project Manager Technical Product Owner Engineering Manager and or Solution Architect in a relevant field