Engineering Program Manager, Foundation Modeling Data

As a member of the Foundation Modeling Data EPM group, you will be responsible for Apple's ability to use data to power its products for hundreds of millions of users around the world. You will work with the Foundation Modeling Data organization to deliver on our vision to make data the voice of our customers, and to inform product and machine learning development. We're looking for an experienced hands-on program manager to partner with data engineering, data science, product, and client engineering teams.\\n\\nDo you have a track record of successful program management across complex initiatives? Have you worked on highly leveraged data-schema processes, data efficiency initiatives, or data pipelines? Are you excited about driving the technical projects vital to efficiently scale our understanding of our products in privacy compliant ways? Do you thrive working with teams to focus on what matters? We would like to talk to you.

In this role, you will be responsible for creating and managing project schedules with clear dependencies, a defined critical path, and a systematic methodology to communicate status. You will proactively drive alignment across the organization and between teams, managing risks and mitigations while remaining agile enough to re-plan as events warrant. As a primary problem solver, you will identify issues and solutions early, marshaling the resources necessary to resolve them while coordinating with cross-functional teams to prioritize tasks and track risks to both schedule and product quality.\n\nYour impact will be felt through clear, timely, and objective communication, including regular program status updates and the escalation of critical issues to the executive team. By breaking down complex issues into manageable discussion topics, you will drive engineering and design alignment, maintaining a steadfast orientation toward teamwork and collaboration. Ultimately, you will drive on-time delivery and deployment by identifying development needs and establishing key achievements for checkpoints. Beyond daily execution, you will continuously reflect on how the team operates, proposing and implementing new ways to work to improve the rate at which we deliver value to our customers.

4+ years project management, engineering management, and/or QA/QC engineering experience for software development quality in a fast paced, incredibly sophisticated service.\nTechnical program management or engineering ownership of data collection, pipelines, or tools used by internal engineering teams; experience driving on roadmaps/long-term strategy of internal tools & systems.\nExperience gathering, analyzing, and presenting data and metrics to back up assumptions, make recommendations and drive actions.\nCareer examples of hands-on involvement of delivering instrumentation, data platforms, data tools, or data processes that improved the customer experience.\nOutstanding communication and presentation skills, written and verbal, to all levels of an organization.\nBS/MS in EE/CS/CE or equivalent

Self-motivated, independent, and proactive; demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities; can quickly triage, prioritize, and lead under pressure.\nStrong analytical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving skills\nProficiency in Agile, SDLC development processes\nStrong leadership skills, including coaching, team-building, conflict resolution, and management\nSuperior group facilitation, interviewing and influence skills\nAbility to communicate abstract ideas clearly and independently manage complex project objectives\nBonus if you have prior data analysis experience (SQL, Python/Jupyter Notebooks, Tableau, Superset)\nBonus if you have prior experience exploring data formats and tools for big data systems (e.g. Parquet, Avro, Protobuf).\nBonus if you have prior experience working with data engineers (e.g. engineers who use tools such as Airflow, Luigi, Jenkins, MapReduce, Pig, Spark, Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Greenplum, Vertica, etc.)