About the Role
The Apple Ads Demand Team is seeking a seasoned Engineering Program Manager (EPM) to oversee critical ads initiatives across Apple Services, focusing on improving the advertiser and user experience and delivering measurable business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead project planning, prioritization, and execution of large engineering initiatives critical to business growth.
- Collaborate with other EPM, engineering, and product teams to define technical requirements and dependencies, and to deliver key milestones.
- Ensure resiliency and stability of projects by proactively identifying risks, implementing effective mitigation strategies, and driving issues to closure.
- Keep stakeholders informed on project progress and key updates, ensuring alignment with business priorities.
- Drive quarterly planning, ensuring alignment between program goals, dependent teams, and overall organizational objectives.
- Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders in Product, Engineering, and dependent teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of demonstrated ability managing complex, cross-functional projects in a large engineering organization accountable for the development and deployment of applications and services at Apple scale.
- Experience coordinating between multiple engineering teams, external & executive stakeholders, and integrate across multiple components & systems.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation, presentation, and influence at all levels, including executive leadership.
- Self-motivated, independent, proactive, and organized with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities.
- Ability to quickly triage/prioritize issues and lead cross-functional teams under pressure.
- Familiarity with long lead time projects, phase management, oversight, and leadership through the entire project lifecycle.
- Ability to network and foster deep relationships to ensure tight alignment on program goals, effective communication & collaboration, and expedited issue resolution & risk mitigation threads.
Skills
- User interface development
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Advertising technology
- Apple's ecosystem and internal engineering processes
- Cross-functional planning and execution at scale
Experience Level
- 8+ years
Education Level
- Bachelors, Masters, or equivalent professional experience in Computer Science, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, or related field.
About the Company
- Apple Ads helps advertisers grow their businesses while helping people discover the products and experiences they're looking for.
- Our technology powers ads and sponsorships across several Apple services, including the App Store, Apple News, Apple Maps, and Apple TV.
- Everything we do is grounded in trust, connection, and impact.
- We respect our users' privacy, integrate advertising thoughtfully into the Apple experience, and deliver value for advertisers of all sizes — from small app developers to global brands.
