Apple

AIML - Sr Engineering Program Manager, Siri in the Car and Hearables

Job Description

Posted on: 
February 1, 2023

We’re looking for a strong Engineering Program Manager who will lead how Siri works in the Car and on AirPods. The individual has demonstrated a consistent record of building and maintaining sophisticated software platforms, tools and processes that deliver new end-to-end experiences that delight customers.

Responsibilities

You will help define the long-term feature roadmaps and drive early engagements on product architecture, feature definition and program execution. This includes collaborating with all partner 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: Maintain a prioritized feature roadmap based on customer needs and hardware / platform updates. Build product requirement documents as necessary. Create and manage project timeline 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. Partner with user research and data teams to evaluate the quality of the user experience and find opportunities for improvement  

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

Job Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in project or program management shipping experiences and features
  • Excellent project management skills including project structuring and managing multiple work streams interdependently
  • Thorough understanding of testing, build and release processes for sophisticated software
  • Ability to define and prioritize long-term feature roadmap, create feature specifications
  • Demonstrated skill of negotiating and distilling sophisticated technical requirements from multiple partners into a coherent long term platform roadmap
  • Solid knowledge of technical system architecture and systems design tradeoffs
  • Demonstrated data-driven decision-making skills, including experience leading data driven projects or programs.
  • Outstanding 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

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