Summary

Summary

Posted: Oct 5, 2020

Role Number:200196557

Imagine what you can do here! At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very ...Summary

Summary

Posted: Oct 5, 2020

Role Number:200196557

Imagine what you can do here! At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly! Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you can accomplish.

The Internet Software & Services (IS&S) organization provides Apple customers around the world with access to an incredible collection of content and experiences across music, movies, apps, books, iCloud, and much more. The Technical Product Management team for Pricing, Payment Consolidation and Vendor Automation systems is responsible for translating pricing and payment business ideas and strategies into tangible products and features. The team plays a leading role in supporting the rapid growth of App Store, Apple Music, Movies, TV, and iBooks across 155 countries.

The Technical Product Manager will be focused on managing pricing, rights, availability, payment consolidation and vendor automation systems. This will require working cross-functionally with teams (such as engineering, QA, business, operations, legal, compliance and finance) to enhance and develop technical capabilities, addressing varying requirements in a scalable manner.

What do you get to work on? You will drive both new and enhancement features that will impact hundreds of millions of customers around the world. New features introduce innovative business models, provide customers with exciting new types of content, and make products and services more accessible. Examples from the past few years include expanding the App Store to more countries around the world, launching the new subscriptions platform for developers, and launching the new services such as Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and Apple News+.

Key Qualifications

• Experience working with engineering and quality teams to develop and launch features, including gathering functional requirements and preparing engineering and QA specifications
• Expertise in SQL and relational database systems
• Solid understanding of various system integrations and workflow dependencies
• Skilled meeting facilitator with outstanding project management and Keynote presentation skills
• Experience working with senior management and executive level teams
• Willingness to work in a hands-on, high volume, dynamic, and constantly changing environment
• At least 5-7 years of equivalent experience in product management, consulting, or engineering

Description
- Manage technical improvements around worldwide pricing, rights, availability, payment consolidation, and vendor automation systems across Apple's Internet and Software Services
- Implement new system features for product launches, including translating pricing and payment-related ideas and strategies into tangible and well-defined engineering requirements
- Design and refine systems to accommodate changing environments, working cross-functionally with teams like business, engineering, operations, legal, compliance, and finance
- Develop internal tools and processes to support and optimize day-to-day operations, including analysis and system configuration
- Author detailed functional requirements specification documents for engineering and QA
- Review related system implementations, including user acceptance testing
- Ensure system follows corporate policies and contractual arrangements with content providers
- Assess price change requests and business requirements as they relate to technical and system capabilities
- Partner with compliance team to ensure sound design and effective operations of related controls

Education & Experience

Bachelors or Masters in an Engineering field, Management Science, Industrial Engineering, or Computer Science OR an MBA degree with engineering/quantitative background

Additional Requirements