Sr. Business Ops Program Manager, Apps

Apple; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple seeks a Senior Business Operations Program Manager to serve as the backbone for a high-stakes, cross-functional program spanning AIML, Siri, Apps, and Legal. You will wrangle timelines, lead executive reviews, and ensure seamless access for AI model content, coordinating governance, negotiation pipelines, and cross-team support.

A successful candidate translates complex legal and business considerations into actionable requirements for engineering and product teams, driving end-to-end

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience in a comparable operations or program management capacity.
• Experience translating nuanced legal and business considerations into actionable requirements for engineering and product teams.
• Proven ability to manage complex portfolios with cross-team dependencies and tight timelines.
• Strong executive stakeholder communication and ability to present to senior leadership in high-pressure settings.
• Proficiency with modern productivity and AI tools to create workflow efficiencies.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end program operations from governance to delivery across AIML, Siri, Apps, and Legal.
• Lead executive reviews and maintain status reporting and briefing materials for senior leadership.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across global time zones to surface risks and drive decisions.

Skills

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional leadership

Program management

AI tooling & automation

Executive reporting

Time zone coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Summary

The Applications team is looking for a dynamic Senior Business Operations Program Manager to serve as the backbone for a high-stakes, cross-functional program spanning AIML, Siri, Apps, and Legal. This role demands a proactive, detail-oriented leader who thrives when program parameters, legal constraints, and strategic priorities shift rapidly.

Description

In this role, you will serve as the central operational backbone - wrangling timelines, leading executive reviews, and ensuring seamless content access for AI models. You will orchestrate program operations, from establishing governance frameworks and tracking negotiation pipelines to coordinating Business and partner team support. You have a natural inclination to take accountability for end-to-end delivery, proactively surface silent risks, and drive decisions across matrixed leadership. A successful Program Manager has exceptional interpersonal skills with the finesse to challenge assumptions, resolve cross-team friction, and rally teams behind unified program goals.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial operations, AI and search environments, or business development contexts
• Outstanding organizational and presentation skills, with the ability to distill complex, ambiguous situations into clear narratives for leadership
• Skilled in building and maintaining relationships with internal cross-functional teams
• Solid track record of driving multiple concurrent, high-complexity cross-functional projects to completion under tight timelines
• Demonstrated sense of urgency and ownership when resolving blockers, with the resilience to stay the course on broader business priorities
• Executive presence and comfort presenting to senior and executive leadership in high-pressure settings
• Comfort with metrics, operational reporting, and the full software product lifecycle from concept through launch
• Ability to anticipate downstream problems, brainstorm solutions quickly, and resolve cross-team friction without losing sight of strategic objectives

Minimum Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Business Operations, Planning, or Program Management, with a clear track record of increasing operational responsibility
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex portfolios with intricate delivery schedules and cross-team dependencies spanning global time zones and locales
• Proven experience translating nuanced legal and business considerations into actionable requirements that engineering and product teams can execute against
• Track record of orchestrating multi-disciplinary teams with divergent goals toward unified program outcomes
• Proficiency with modern productivity and AI tools, including demonstrated experience leveraging AI and automation to create workflow efficiencies and reduce manual overhead
• Strong comfort in executive stakeholder communication, including developing briefing materials, presentation decks, and synthesized status reports for senior leadership
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience in a comparable operations or program management capacity