Senior Ergonomics PD EPM — Cross-Functional Innovator

Apple Inc.; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 176,000 - 312,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking an Ergonomics Product Design Engineering Program Manager in the Vision Products Group to drive cross-functional research, user studies, safety, fit, comfort, and performance requirements for a cutting-edge ergonomic design program.

You will partner with product design, applied research, human-system interaction, and core technology teams to define specs, execute validation plans, and lead reviews with peers and executives.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of combined experience in program management and human/systems engineering delivering products comprised of multiple materials, complex integration, user study development and execution with a consistent track record leading and shipping multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Experience leading full life-cycle, end-to-end program development in dynamic environments with emphasis on user experience and impact.
• Knowledge of product development processes including familiarity with manufacturing, rapid prototyping and assembly processes.
• Ability to distill HW/SW trade-offs and communicate them clearly to leadership and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Assisting in defining research questions and studies around perceptual comfort, fit, safety and user experience.
• Collaborating with product design and industrial design teams to translate user-study data into hardware prototypes and demonstrations.
• Driving manufacturing and assembly of early prototypes, managing budget and authorizing payments.
• Developing and maintaining a knowledge management system to capture user-study data and findings.
• Creating and documenting hardware system specifications based on top level features.
• Mapping end-to-end feature specifications to test and validation requirements.
• Presenting findings to cross-functional partners and executives.
• Maintaining streamlined development schedules and planning improvements to avoid pitfalls.
• Providing status updates to executive management and coordinating across diverse contributors.

Skills

Program management

Human engineering

User studies

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking an Ergonomics Product Design Engineering Program Manager in the Vision Products Group to drive cross-functional research, user studies, safety, fit, comfort, and performance requirements for a cutting-edge ergonomic design program.

You will partner with product design, applied research, human-system interaction, and core technology teams to define specs, execute validation plans, and lead reviews with peers and executives.