Engineering PM: AI Search & Relevance Leader

Apple, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Apple stock programs

Job summary

Apple Inc. seeks an Engineering Program Manager to lead cross-functional initiatives in search and relevance, applying world‑class AI/ML methods to power over a billion customer experiences and continue raising the bar on quality and relevance.

You’ll own schedules, dependencies, risks, and exec-level updates, partnering with ML engineers, data scientists, and product teams to ship high‑impact features on aggressive timelines while maintaining a strong user focus and relentless pursuit of

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in driving large scale program building machine learning powered products.
• Strong ability to deal with ambiguities, drive disambiguation and clarities, shepherd multiple teams to meet aggressive timeline.
• Excellent program management skills including program structuring and managing multiple work streams interdependently.
• Solid knowledge of technical system architecture and systems design tradeoffs.
• Strong problem-solving skills with attention to details.
• Strategic and results driven mindset focusing on driving what matters.
• Self-motivated and proactive, with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities required to forge a path to success.
• Strong leadership skills, including conflict resolution, negotiation, courage to take risks when needed.
• Strong ability to communicate abstract ideas clearly, manage comprehensive yet succinct project status update to all levels of audience, both verbally and in written forms.
• Bachelors in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning or related field or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive consensus across multiple groups with varying opinions & needs. Influence entire teams around a common purpose and drive conference on the plan of execution.
• Create and manage project schedules with clear dependencies, critical path and systematic methodology to communicate status.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, close gaps and re-plan as needed.
• Keep teams on critical path with efforts to minimize distractions.
• Provide clear, timely and objective communication, including regular program status updates and one-off reviews as needed to executive team.
• Lead measurements to help team understand and measure success, including relevance, quality and usage metrics.
• Advocate for user and company values when leading team to convergence on key open questions.
• Reflect on how the team operates, proactively propose and implement new ways to enable more effective processes & delivery of results.

Skills

Program management

Cross-team leadership

Communication

Problem-solving

Strategic thinking

Ambiguity management

Leadership

Self-motivation

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning or related

Job description

Apple Inc. seeks an Engineering Program Manager to lead cross-functional initiatives in search and relevance, applying world‑class AI/ML methods to power over a billion customer experiences and continue raising the bar on quality and relevance.

You’ll own schedules, dependencies, risks, and exec-level updates, partnering with ML engineers, data scientists, and product teams to ship high‑impact features on aggressive timelines while maintaining a strong user focus and relentless pursuit of