AI Safety & Responsible Tech Program Manager

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental couvr

Retirement benefits

Discounted products and free services

Tuition reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking an experienced Program Manager for Responsible AI (Safety) to coordinate early engagements on architecture, feature definition and execution across partner teams.

You will help implement policies, standards and processes that align with Apple’s values, manage risks, and drive on-time delivery of ML products while fostering a culture of responsible technology and transparency across the organization.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in project or program management shipping products driven by machine-learned systems to worldwide users.
• Designed the delivery of multiple significant client/server software products requiring large organizations (100+) to accomplish.
• Project management skills including project structuring and managing multiple work streams interdependently.
• Detailed understanding of testing, build and release processes for sophisticated software.
• Demonstrated skill of negotiating and distilling complex technical requirements from multiple partners into a coherent long term platform roadmap.
• Demonstrated data-driven decision-making skills, including experience leading metrics-driven projects or programs.
• Experience in group facilitation, interviewing and influence skills.
• Ability to communicate abstract ideas clearly, and independently manage complex project objectives.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation, presentation and influence.
• Ability to independently draft and present deliverables, recommendations, timelines and communication strategies.
• BS, MS or PHD in computer science or engineering or other technical area, or experience in related field

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and drive early engagements on product architecture, feature definition and program execution with a focus on Responsible AI (Safety).
• This includes collaborating with all partner organizations relevant for a project.
• Communicate: Provide clear, timely and objective communication, including regular program status updates and critical issues as needed to executive team
• Coordinate: Coordinate discussions and break down complex issues into discussion topics to drive engineering and design alignment with support from project team, maintaining an orientation toward teamwork and collaboration
• 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
• Execute: Drive on time delivery and deployment, identifying development and feasibility needs, establishing achievements for checkpoints and status updates
• Problem solve: Proactively identify issues and solutions, and marshal resources vital to attack and resolve.
• Coordinate with teams to identify issues, prioritize tasks and track risks to schedule and product quality, including cross-functional dependencies

Skills

Project management

Shipping software products

Cross-functional coordination

Risk management

Negotiation & requirements distilling

Data-driven decision making

Group facilitation

Communication skills

Drafting deliverables & timelines

BS/MS/PhD in CS or engineering

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS or engineering or related field

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking an experienced Program Manager for Responsible AI (Safety) to coordinate early engagements on architecture, feature definition and execution across partner teams.

You will help implement policies, standards and processes that align with Apple’s values, manage risks, and drive on-time delivery of ML products while fostering a culture of responsible technology and transparency across the organization.