Product Manager, Internal Spend Management Tools

Apple Inc.; Culver City, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Stock programs

Relocation assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Discounted products and services

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Culver City, CA is seeking a Product Manager to own the development of an internal spend management tool. You will drive the roadmap from requirements to delivery, coordinating with engineering, stakeholders, and leadership to ensure timely releases.

The role emphasizes autonomous work, data-driven decision making, and strong communication across teams, with a focus on building scalable budgeting features for broad internal users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (required).
• 5+ years of experience with software development, product management, or project management.
• Experience building a proprietary financial budgeting tool for a broad user base.
• Experience implementing AI tools to automate and streamline workflows.
• Ability to operate autonomously, scope ambiguous problems, and drive decisions.
• Experience drafting high-level feature requirements.
• Ability to evaluate and troubleshoot technical issues.
• Strong communicator between technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Create, enhance, and manage internal tool by identifying user needs and creating high-level feature requirements.
• Own product roadmap and prioritize features and bugs aligned with user needs and business goals.
• Oversee end-to-end implementation, QA, and user acceptance testing with the team and users.
• Identify bugs and work with developers to prioritize fixes and gather context.
• Document user processes and backend workflows.
• Perform data analysis and audit data for accuracy and completeness.
• Manage the ticketing system for bugs and feature requests with minimal supervision.
• Lead cross-functional meetings and track action items.
• Conduct root cause analysis to identify underlying issues and develop solutions.

Skills

Product management

Project management

Software development

AI tooling

Requirements drafting

Troubleshooting

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Snowflake

eApproval

Keynote

Datalab

Tableau

Airtable

Jira

Job description

Product Manager, Internal Spend Management Tools

Culver City, California, United States Software and Services

The Product, Design, & Marketing Budget Team is seeking a resourceful and experienced product manager to own the development and evolution of an internal budgeting tool. You'll drive the product roadmap from gathering requirements and documenting feature requests to overseeing development, QA, and delivery.

Description

The ideal candidate spots issues early, drives them to resolution, works autonomously in a fast-moving environment, and communicates clearly across engineering, stakeholders, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Create, enhance, and manage internal tool by identifying user needs and creating high-level feature requirements
• Own product roadmap, feature and bug prioritization, taking into account user needs and business goals and priorities
• Manage end-to-end implementation, QA, and user-acceptance testing of tool with development team and users
• Identify user-facing and back-end bugs and work with developers to prioritize fixes, and gather essential context on reported issues
• Document user processes and backend workflows
• Perform data analysis, reconcile data, and audit data to verify data in tool is accurate and complete
• Manage the ticketing system that tracks bugs and feature requests; determine appropriate action for each ticket with minimal supervision
• Drive cross-functional meetings with development and internal stakeholders; own action item tracking and follow-through
• Conduct root cause analysis to identify underlying issues and develop solutions accordingly

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years of experience with software development, product management, project management
• Experience building a proprietary financial budgeting tool serving a broad user base
• Experience implementing AI tools to automate and streamline workflows
• Ability to operate autonomously — scoping ambiguous problems, making sound prioritization calls with incomplete information, and driving decisions
• Experience with drafting high-level feature requirements
• Ability to evaluate and troubleshoot technical issues through resolution
• Strong communicator between both technical and non-technical team members

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a Marketing and Creative organization
• Strong understanding of financial data including but not limited to Purchase Requests, Purchase Orders, and invoices
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and SQL
• Proven record ramping quickly on complex platforms, understanding diverse user types, their requirements, and how changes impact the system holistically
• Comfortable with ambiguity and adjusting to evolving business requirements and priorities
• Experience with Snowflake, eApproval, Keynote, Datalab, Tableau, Airtable, Jira

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $166,600 and $250,700, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.

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