Sr Engineering Program Manager, Privacy

Relha LLC; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking an Engineering Project Manager for the User Privacy Team to drive high-quality user experiences with privacy by design. You will shepherd projects from concept through delivery, coordinating across engineering, legal, marketing, and design to align goals and expectations.

As an EPM, you will create plans, track progress, communicate status to executives, and resolve roadblocks, enabling teams to move quickly while maintaining privacy guarantees.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Project / Program Management experience in software development life cycle
• Experience developing project plans and managing complex, cross functional projects
• Experience delivering customer-facing software features or projects from concept through delivery
• Excellent written and verbal presentation skills
• Ability to navigate through, find clarity in, and lead teams through ambiguity
• Ability to track and manage numerous, unrelated parallel activities
• Superior collaboration, communication, and organizational skills

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate project definitions, timelines and status for new and ongoing projects
• Drive teams to execute plans, set goals and remove roadblocks
• Build relationships across engineering, legal, marketing, design and leadership
• Ensure privacy considerations are tracked, accounted for and delivered on time

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Project tracking

Ambiguity navigation

Stakeholder influence

Roadblock removal

Process documentation

Job description

Privacy is a fundamental human right and one of Apple’s core values. We are committed to delivering great features and great privacy to our customers.

The Software Engineering Program Office is looking for an Engineering Project Manager to support the User Privacy Team. As an EPM, you will play a key role in shipping high-quality user experiences to billions of customers, all designed with privacy in mind.

Description

EPMs are responsible for developing processes, managing and communicating project definitions, engineering achievements and schedules, and project status for new and ongoing projects. EPMs are catalysts for the teams they support, bringing clarity by creating plans, driving the team to execute on those plans, setting goals and expectations, and removing roadblocks.

As an EPM, you will have the opportunity to influence and build relationships with team members in all functional areas and levels of the organization— engineering, legal, marketing, design, and leadership. You will ensure that all products, services, and projects are designed with privacy by ensuring the privacy team’s work is tracked, accounted for, and delivered on time.

Minimum Qualifications

At least 8+ years of Project / Program Management experience in software development life cycle

Experience developing project plans and managing complex, cross functional projects

Experience delivering customer-facing software features or projects from concept through delivery

Excellent written and verbal presentation skills

A track record of quickly understanding technical concepts in a wide range of fields

Demonstrated ability to provide succinct, accurate executive summaries of project status and complicated engineering situations.

Ability to navigate through, find clarity in, and lead teams through ambiguity

Ability to track and manage numerous, unrelated parallel activities

Ability to mobilize, encourage, influence, advocate for, and lead teams without direct authority

Superior collaboration, communication, and organizational skills

Ability to create, drive, and document repeatable processes and resources

Flexible, self-motivated, curious

Passion for privacy