Summary

Posted: Feb 12, 2021

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200219592

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, an...Summary

Summary

Posted: Feb 12, 2021

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200219592

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Do you love taking on challenges that create a positive impact? Are you passionate about empowering many ground-breaking intelligent experiences to be made? The Siri Assistant team is building groundbreaking technology... and we are looking for people like you!

We're looking for a strong Technical Program Manager with a proven track record of building and maintaining complex software platforms, tools and processes that deliver new end-to-end experiences that delight customers.

Key Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in project or program management
• Excellent project management skills including project structuring and managing multiple work streams interdependently
• Have personally orchestrated the delivery of multiple significant client/server software products requiring large organizations (100+) to execute
• Ability to read/understand code including picking up new languages as needed
• Solid knowledge of technical system architecture and systems design tradeoffs
• Thorough understanding of testing, build and release processes for complex software
• Strong analytical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in Agile, SDLC development processes
• Strong leadership skills, including coaching, team-building, conflict resolution and management
• Superior group facilitation, interviewing and influence skills
• Ability to communicate abstract ideas clearly and independently manage complex project objectives
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation, presentation and influence
• Ability to independently draft and present deliverables, recommendations and communication strategies

You will coordinate and drive early engagements on product architecture, feature definition and program execution. This includes collaborating with all stakeholder organizations relevant for a project, You will:

*Communicate: Provide clear, timely and objective communication, including regular program status updates and critical issues as needed to executive team

*Coordinate: Coordinate discussions and break down complex issues into discussion topics to drive engineering and design alignment with support from project team, maintaining an orientation toward teamwork and collaboration

*Plan: Create and manage project schedules with clear dependencies, critical path and systematic methodology to communicate status. Manage risks and mitigations, and re- plan as events warrant. Drive alignment across the organization and between teams

*Execute: Drive on time delivery and deployment, identifying development and feasibility needs, establishing achievements for checkpoints and status updates

*Problem solve: Proactively identify issues and solutions, and marshal resources vital to attack and resolve. Coordinate with teams to identify issues, prioritize tasks and track risks to schedule and product quality, including cross-functional dependencies

Education & Experience

Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Additional Requirements

• Experience delivering mobile products on Apple platforms
• Managing teams
• Willing to relocate to the Bay Area (preferred) or Seattle regions