Siri Release Engineering Program Lead

Apple Inc.; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & dental coverage

Employee stock programs

Relocation assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, CA is seeking a Software Release Engineering Program Manager (EPM) for Siri to drive release planning and cross-functional coordination across engineering, program management, and leadership.

You will own release schedules, track status, and communicate risks and trade-offs with executive presence, influencing teams to deliver features on time and with quality for millions of users.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience project managing complex, multi-functional projects.
• Experience partnering directly with engineering and program leadership to navigate release trade-offs, drive alignment, and communicate risk in high-stakes environments.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and enthusiastic with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities.
• Concise, well-structured written communication including status and summary of issues.
• Articulate and facilitative in meetings and demonstrates the ability to reshape messaging for each audience.
• Ability to deliver hard news clearly and accelerate appropriately across teams.
• Strong collaboration skills — ability to work well within a team, understand capabilities, and discern priorities.
• Devise and communicates plans in ambiguous settings with attention to detail.
• A deeply curious mindset about new ideas.
• Ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience.
• Solid understanding of software development practices with the proven ability to navigate ambiguity, distinguish urgent from important and defend tradeoffs.
• Experience developing and releasing a consumer product.

Responsibilities

• Work with our project management, engineering, and leadership teams to help define, schedule, track, and communicate the status of releases.
• Communicate effectively at all levels — from informal drop-ins to formal announcements — often serving as the face of the Siri release team inside Apple.
• Serve as a go-to resource for querying data to understand bug status, program status, and other key release metrics — helping leadership at all levels understand program health.
• Coordinate and run program-wide bug reviews with program leadership, engineering, program management, quality and other cross-functional partners.
• Track and prioritize tasks across multiple product releases and efforts simultaneously.
• Track and communicate release critical, seed-blocking and other high-priority issues effectively and in a timely manner.
• Develop and automate reports to help manage the entire bug lifecycle and identify areas for improvement.
• Lead release-related efforts across multiple teams across multiple layers of the software stack as needed, identify the right technical DRIs for issues impacting releases and drive them to resolution.
• Understand and enforce our integration and build processes end to end, from seeds to release; provide frequent updates, with the right sense of urgency and priority, to build and integration teams on upcoming releases.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve how programs are run and executed.

Skills

Project management

Executive presence

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Leadership

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science / Engineering

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, CA is seeking a Software Release Engineering Program Manager (EPM) for Siri to drive release planning and cross-functional coordination across engineering, program management, and leadership.

You will own release schedules, track status, and communicate risks and trade-offs with executive presence, influencing teams to deliver features on time and with quality for millions of users.