Engineering Program Manager

At Apple, we work every single day to craft products that enrich people's lives. Our Advertising Platforms group makes it possible for people around the world to easily access informative and imaginative content on their devices while helping publishers and developers promote and monetize their work. Today, our technology and services power advertising in Search Ads in the App Store and Apple News. Our platforms are highly-performant, deployed at scale, and set new standards for enabling effective advertising while protecting user privacy.

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 managing complex programs and platforms while ensuring alignment with the business goals. You will be expected to ensure that all deliverables adhere to the highest levels of privacy and security standards that Apple holds.

This role 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.

Description
- Lead cross-functional engineering programs and deliver optimally, 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
- Coach and mentor teams in Agile methodologies, while tailoring the specifics to work well with Apple's ecosystem, toolsets, and methods

Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors, Masters, or equivalent professional experience in Computer Science, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, or related field
Minimum of 14 years of project experiences with scalable platforms and resilient architectures.
Minimum of 7+ years of experiences in roles such as a Technical Project Manager, Technical Product Owner, Engineering Manager, and/or Solution Architect in a relevant field.
Prior experience with Agile projects and programs
Experience in a cross-functional role

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with low latency architecture, cloud architecture, and/or machine learning platforms is strongly preferred
Passionate about project delivery and being outcomes-oriented
Clear and effective communicator, and enjoys collaborative problem solving

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