Color Material Finish: Engineering Program Manager

Color Material Finish:
Engineering Program Manager | Cupertino, CA, United States

Apple's Industrial Design team is looking for a CMF Engineering Program Manager to work with the internal color team on delivering world‑class colors, materials, and finishes for all Apple products. The right candidate will have outstanding organizational skills and be able to see multiple projects through from design exploration to engineering development all the way to manufacturing, while working with multiple groups internal and external to Apple.

• Track, manage and drive multiple color palettes for multiple products with different lead times and release dates.
• Juggle multiple project schedules to ensure deadlines for color design decisions and engineering builds are met.
• Own hundreds of physical samples and documents crucial for the product development cycle.
• Quickly pivot and switch gears during iterative design processes and inevitable design changes.
• Understand product timelines on the design and engineering side.
• Hold running weekly designer reviews and meetings with engineers, delicately moving things forward when needed.
• Ingest and prioritize large amounts of information and translate it to multiple audiences (manufacturing, engineers, designers) often in different formats.
• Technically fluently distill information, ask the right questions, and troubleshoot with engineers.
• Maintain ownership of color targets, master standards, and build units.
• Work across multiple groups: vendors, product teams, research teams, manufacturing.

• Superb organizational skills.
• Experience with managing large amounts of information.
• Technical background in material science, engineering, consumer products, textiles, fashion, or automotive.
• Ability to take direction and work independently as well as collaboratively.
• High emotional intelligence: able to filter information, understand urgency, and know appropriate time to initiate conversation.
• Knowledge of Keynote, Excel, Numbers.

• Interest in learning fundamentals of color science.

Base pay ranges from $181,100 to $318,400, depending on skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Employees may participate in discretionary stock programs, purchase Apple stock at a discount, and receive benefits including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, discounted products and free services, and education reimbursement. The role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commissions and relocation assistance.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

Employment Type:

Full‑time