Director of Engineering - Apple Music, Books, and Podcasts Content Management

    • Apple, Inc.
  • Cupertino, CA
  • Posted 10 days ago | Updated 9 hours ago

Overview

On Site
Full Time

Skills

Content management
Virtual team
Data modeling
Big data
UI
Software engineering
Supply chain management
Software architecture
Customer experience
Music
Leadership
Art
iPhone
iPad
Innovation
Communication
Presentations
Data
Workflow
Management
Partnership
Media
Podcast
Operations
Meta-data management
Editorial
Artificial intelligence
Machine Learning (ML)
Copy editing
Investments
Design
IMPACT

Job Details

Summary

The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) organization is searching for a Director to lead a globally distributed team driving the content management platform for Apple Music, Apple Books, and Apple Podcasts. We are one of the exciting examples of Apple's long-held passion for combining art and technology; providing the content platform that powers Apple Music, Apple Books, and Apple Podcasts for over a billion users around the globe.The people who work at Apple have reinvented and defined entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod and Vision Pro. We have done the same with services, including with iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+ and Apple Pay. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices - strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. You should join us to help deliver the next amazing Apple product.

Key Qualifications

Excellent communication and presentation skills. Must be able to distill and present information in a clear and concise manner at all technical levels and across functions.Extremely strong understanding of data modeling and data stores including relational, graph, key-value and others.Strong knowledge of big data technology stacks.Understanding of front end tooling stacks and technologies.Fundamental grasp of complex workflow systems.We're an engineering organization that partners closely with designers to build intuitive and beautiful user experiences. The interview process will test your dedication to delivering products that always serve the best interest of the customer.Your comfort managing complex cross-functional relationships and establishing strong partnerships with colleagues who may have very different goals than you do will be a key driver of success.10+ years management experience in software engineering is desirable, especially in the field of media content management and digital supply tooling and workflows

Description

You will be responsible for the underlying systems that form the digital supply chain behind music, book and podcast content enjoyed by Apple customers around the world. As a hands-on engineering leader, you will personally drive features as well as provide overall software architecture direction for the platform. You will engage with Product, Business, and Engineering leadership to develop and support new features for Apple customers and content providers. Your team will create industry-leading tools for creators and content providers to manage their data on Apple's platforms. Your team will also build tooling and workflows for Apple's Content Operations team to create the highest quality content and metadata in the industry, as well as for Apple's Editorial teams to create unique and engaging customer experiences, provide Apple's voice, and move at the speed of culture.Your team will manage billions of entities and relationships with advanced data modeling, Big Data processing, and AI/ML techniques to adapt to the rapidly changing environment of content management in support of feature, product, and new platform launches.

Education & Experience

BS/MS EE/CS/CE or equivalent work experience

Additional Requirements

  • - Recruit internally and externally, nurturing people who are not only deeply technical experts, but also demonstrate success in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment of innovation.
  • - Assess difficult trade-offs, triage, and know that sometimes platform investments are essential to unlocking fast progress later.
  • - With compassion for your colleagues and the challenges they face, you can drive a controversial direction when needed and inspire others to follow.
  • - You care about craft and appreciate that tools and processes impose structure on how we think. You also recognize they can be counter-productive when applied too rigidly or too early in a project.
  • - Move up and down the ladder of abstraction and help your team do so as well. You can talk and design on technical matters but are always able to connect that work to the impact on customer experience.