Product Manager, Apple Learning Platform

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Learning Platform Product Manager to own the learning platform end-to-end, from authoring through learner UI.

You will align business needs with engineering, program management, and UX to deliver a coherent, scalable experience for Apple’s learners and content providers. The role demands strong product judgment, technical fluency, and collaboration across teams to drive an integrated platform, including LCAP, LMS, Armor, and Learner UI.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in product management or technical product ownership in content/learning systems.
• Strong stakeholder management across many partners, champion a one-Apple mindset and align priorities into a coherent roadmap.
• Proven ability to author clear requirements and acceptance criteria through design, development, UAT, and release.
• Experience owning a product end-to-end across multiple components (content/CMS, delivery/LMS, UI).
• Effective communicator, able to translate technical detail into business context for senior leadership.
• Experience partnering with engineering, QE, EPM, and UX to deliver production-ready solutions.
• Familiarity with release management, UAT coordination, and issue-tracking/backlog tooling (Radar or equivalent).
• Comfort operating in complex, fast-moving environments with many concurrent workstreams.
• Systems-thinking mindset linking content, delivery, data, and learner experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary product liaison and manage stakeholder relationships with 150+ content providers, translating business needs to requirements and aligning priorities into a single roadmap.
• Own end-to-end requirements and acceptance criteria for LCAP, LMS, Armor, and Learner UI, partnering with UX on design handoff.
• Partner on the platform's AI roadmap — GenAI content authoring, skills tagging, AI-assisted translation for the learner experience.
• Coordinate release planning, UAT, and platform delivery with engineering and stakeholders; support migrations and releases.
• Represent the platform in cross-functional forums, keeping stakeholders aligned on scope, timing, and trade-offs.
• Deliver leadership updates and quarterly readouts on platform health, roadmap, and outcomes to senior stakeholders.
• Own provider communications — release notes, platform news, documentation, and change management.
• Drive daily/weekly platform syncs to surface risks early and triage production issues to protect learners.
• Support annual budget and vendor-estimate cycles for the platform.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Requirements writing

End-to-end product ownership

Communication

Engineering collaboration

UAT coordination

Release management

Systems thinking

Tools

Radar backlog

Job description

Austin, Texas, United States Corporate Functions

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Description

The People Technology team is looking for a Learning Platform Product Manager to own the Apple learning platform end-to-end - from the content creation environment, through delivery and backend administration tools, all the way to the learner and manager experience.This role manages the full product: the authoring platform (LCAP), the learning management system (LMS / IMC), the audience services (ARMOR), and the learner-facing experience (Learner UI). The ideal candidate combines strong product judgment with technical fluency - able to translate the needs of business partners and content providers into a clear, prioritized roadmap, and to partner closely with engineering, program management, and UX to deliver it.This is a high-ownership, high-visibility role at the center of how Apple's people learn and grow. You will be the connective tissue between the learning business teams and the technology teams that build the platform - and the single product voice ensuring the experience is coherent from authoring to delivering for the learner.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary product liaison and manage stakeholder relationships with partners and the community of 150+ content providers — translating business needs to requirements, and aligning competing priorities into a single coherent roadmap
• Own end-to-end requirements and authoring of acceptance criteria for LCAP, LMS, Armor, and the Learner UI — partnering closely with UX on design handoff and capturing business value, complexity, and technical feasibility
• Partner on the platform's AI roadmap — GenAI content authoring, skills and proficiency tagging, and AI-assisted translation — bringing emerging capabilities into the authoring and delivery experience
• Coordinate release planning, UAT, and platform delivery with engineering and stakeholders, supporting migrations and releases as part of requirements delivery
• Represent the platform in cross-functional 1:1s, track-lead forums, and program syncs, keeping stakeholders aligned on scope, timing, and trade-offs
• Deliver leadership updates and quarterly readouts — communicating platform health, roadmap, and outcomes to senior stakeholders
• Own provider communications and announcements — release notes, platform news, documentation, and change management — across the provider community
• Drive daily and weekly platform syncs surface risks early, and drive production-issue triage and resolution to protect the learner experience
• Support annual budget and vendor-estimate cycles for the platform

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years in product management or technical product ownership in content/learning systems
• Strong stakeholder management across many partners with competing priorities, proven ability to champion a collaborative one-Apple mindset and align priorities into a coherent roadmap
• Proven ability to author clear requirements and acceptance criteria and drive them through design, development, UAT, and release
• Experience owning a product end-to-end across multiple components (e.g., content/CMS, delivery/LMS, and a user-facing UI)
• Effective communicator, able to translate technical detail into business context and present to and drive decisions with senior leadership
• Experience partnering closely with engineering, QE, EPM, and UX teams to deliver production-ready solutions
• Familiarity with release management, UAT coordination, and issue-tracking / backlog tooling (e.g., Radar or equivalent)
• Comfort operating in complex, fast-moving environments with many concurrent workstreams
• Systems-thinking mindset, connecting content, delivery, data, and learner experience across the full platform
• Detail-oriented, with strong documentation discipline and appreciation for operational and governance expectations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with learning platforms, LMS/CMS, or content authoring systems
• Familiarity with localization and translation workflows at scale
• Exposure to AI-assisted content generation, skills taxonomies, or agentic workflows
• Experience in large, global enterprise environments — and in technology or retail environments that care deeply about user experience and intuitive design
• Background in L&D, learning technology, or instructional design tooling

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