Product Portfolio Manager, Employee Experience & Productivity

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple's Employee Experience and Productivity team is seeking a Senior Program Manager to drive planning, execution, and reporting across multiple projects, turning strategy into predictable, well-run delivery. You will own cadence, track milestones, manage risks, and provide weekly status updates to leadership, partnering with product management and engineering to align roadmaps with delivery.

You'll collaborate with an embedded Engineering Program Manager and cross-functional teams to ensure

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in product or project management in technology or product-driven environments.
• 5+ years experience with project tracking tools such as Jira or Wrike.
• 5+ years experience owning executive-facing status reports and portfolio-level dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Own the cadence, structure, and cross-functional coordination that move a portfolio of products from idea to launch and beyond.
• Maintain detailed project plans, track milestones and schedules, and keep a clear-eyed view of risks and dependencies for leadership.
• Own weekly status reporting for individual projects and consolidated portfolio-level reporting with accurate, clear, and on-time updates for stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Partner closely with product management, translating priorities into actionable plans and ensuring delivery aligns with the roadmap.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional coordination

Executive reporting

Stakeholder communication

Education

BS degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jira

Wrike

Job description

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and experiences very quickly. Apple's Employee Experience and Productivity team is seeking a Senior Program Manager to drive the planning, execution, and reporting that keep our most important projects on track. You will be the operational backbone across multiple concurrent projects and portfolio-level reporting, working hand in hand with product management and engineering to turn strategy into predictable, well-run delivery. Employee Experience and Productivity (EEP) is part of IS&T and delivers some of the most widely used communication and productivity technology and services across Apple – from tools that enable collaboration to the support teams that keep Apple's workforce running. EEP also leads user experience design and research, and manages the systems behind Apple's original content studios.

Description

In this role, you will own the cadence, structure, and cross-functional coordination that move a portfolio of products from idea to launch and beyond. You will maintain detailed project plans, track milestones and schedules, and keep a clear-eyed view of risks and dependencies so that leadership always knows where things stand and what needs attention. You will own weekly status reporting for individual projects and consolidated portfolio-level reporting, delivering accurate, clear, and on-time updates that stakeholders and senior leadership can rely on. You will partner closely with product management, acting as the connective tissue between roadmap intent and day-to-day execution. You will help translate product priorities into actionable plans, keep timelines and dependencies aligned to what the product managers are trying to achieve, and make sure the realities of delivery flow back into product planning. You will also work alongside an embedded Engineering Program Manager to ensure technical workstreams are reflected accurately in overall program status, and you will drive coordination across engineering, design, operations, and other partner teams so that dependencies are visible, handoffs are smooth, and blockers are resolved quickly. You should possess finely-tuned critical thinking skills, strong organizational instincts, a bias for clarity, and the ability to move fluidly between the details of a project plan and the bigger picture leadership needs to see.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in product or project management, in technology or product-driven environments.
• 5+ years experience with project tracking tools such as Jira or Wrike.
• 5+ years experience owning executive-facing status reports and portfolio-level dashboards.
• BS degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid risk management skills, including identification, documentation, and active mitigation tracking across a portfolio.
• Track record of partnering closely with product management, translating product priorities and roadmaps into well-run delivery and feeding execution insight back into planning.
• Experience collaborating with or alongside an Engineering Program Manager or technical program management function.
• Familiarity with portfolio-level reporting frameworks and operating cadences.
• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent certification.
• Background in technology and employee-facing internal productivity tools or SaaS.
• Experience working in a matrixed organization, building alignment across teams without direct authority.
• Strong prioritization skills, with the ability to balance multiple projects of varying lengths while managing trade offs that align to portfolio and organizational strategy.
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities.
• Excellent cross-functional coordination and stakeholder communication skills, with strong written and verbal communication.