Hardware Product Design & Program Manager

Apple, Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental

Retirement benefits

Discounted Apple products

Education reimbursement

Stock options

Job summary

Apple, Inc. in Cupertino, California seeks a Product Design Engineering Program Manager to lead the technical management of mechanical components from development through validation.

You will coordinate engineering teams, plan schedules, budgets, and critical paths while balancing competing objectives to meet aggressive timelines. This role requires strong communication, cross-functional leadership, and hands-on experience with product development and manufacturing processes.

Qualifications

• 1–4+ years of project management experience.
• Excellent communication, organizational, presentation and leadership skills.
• Flexible with rapid development cycles and changing directions.
• Knowledge of product development and manufacturing processes (metal stamping, forging, CNC, die casting, injection molding).
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and external vendors.

Responsibilities

• Support product definition and drive closure of architecture and technical opens in early stages of a project.
• Establish program baseline, scheduling, budget, critical paths, and technology risk areas for execution through final delivery of the product
• Identify and highlight technical risk areas and mitigation strategies in partnership with impacted teams to help drive them to closure
• Enable the development effort by creating and monitoring an efficient, detailed process
• Drive drawing releases and tooling kickoff with PD Engineering and the vendors to meet aggressive schedules
• Plan and execute prototype builds by directing OEM partners
• Lead cross functional communication between project teams and external vendors
• Drive challenging activities to meet overall project objectives including calling and running meetings collaborating with diverse teams
• Offer multiple levels of status across a wide spectrum of individual contributors to executive management via written and verbal communication

Skills

Project management

Communication

Leadership

Organizational skills

Job description

Apple, Inc. in Cupertino, California seeks a Product Design Engineering Program Manager to lead the technical management of mechanical components from development through validation.

You will coordinate engineering teams, plan schedules, budgets, and critical paths while balancing competing objectives to meet aggressive timelines. This role requires strong communication, cross-functional leadership, and hands-on experience with product development and manufacturing processes.