Senior Engineering Program Manager, My

Summary

The Find My team is dedicated to building a seamless, private, and secure experience for users to locate their devices, personal items, and share location with friends and family. We're a group of highly motivated engineers, designers, and product managers who are passionate about creating a simple and reliable experience for hundreds of millions of users worldwide. We thrive in a fast paced environment where team members are often encouraged to wear multiple hats and contribute to various aspects of the product lifecycle.

Innovation and creative problem-solving are at the heart of our team, and we constantly explore new approaches to deliver groundbreaking solutions while collaborating with diverse disciplines across the company, including hardware, software, and privacy, to deliver an exceptional user experience.

As an Engineering Program Manager, you ll thrive in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, collaborating closely with a passionate cross-functional team to drive the technical execution of our shared mission. You ll be instrumental in not just delivering exciting new engineering initiatives, but ensuring we re building the right things — identifying opportunities to be strategic and create meaningful impact for our users and the business.

Your organizational and leadership skills, paired with your passion for continuous improvement, will directly shape the experience of millions of users. We embrace continuous iteration and improvement, so you ll have the opportunity to learn, grow, and help us find smarter ways to build the future of Find My.

• Lead delivery of technically complex customer-facing features across Apple platforms—from concept through launch—with a focus on improving location accuracy, privacy, security, and the foundational Find My network infrastructure.
• Create an execution plan that accounts for product priorities and engineering feasibility, adapting it as the project progresses.
• Ensure all teams have clear expectations of deliverables across engineering, design, product, and data science, ensuring these land on time with high-quality, and using program skills to escalate and mitigate when things go off track.
• Drive the definition of priorities, scope, and success metrics while balancing technical feasibility with user value.
• Evaluate user experiences critically by becoming a user expert, and translating pain-points into plans for refinement.
• Communicate status, risks, and trade-offs clearly across teams and leadership, providing informed recommendations and options alongside issues.
• Represent your program with accountability and integrity across Apple’s internal teams.

• 8+ years of Program Management or Technical Program Management experience leading technical programs or cross-functional software initiatives in developer or business-facing products.
• Demonstrated success shipping client applications (e.g., iOS, macOS) and/or complementary web or backend services.
• Proven ability to collaborate closely with engineering teams and make technically informed decisions.
• Strong empathy for users and the ability to reason through product design trade-offs.
• Exceptional organizational skills, ability to track many moving parts at once.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; comfortable engaging with technical and executive audiences alike.
• Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional programs and drive alignment across stakeholders.
• Experience on projects with rapidly changing information, while also landing work along the way.

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical experience is a strong plus. Technical background or hands-on experience with software development is a strong plus.
• Experience with location-based services, tracking technologies, privacy-preserving location, or AI/ML-powered location features. Familiarity with the Find My network, secure location sharing, or device tracking.
• Prior success delivering programs at the intersection of hardware, software, and services.
• Passion for product quality, user experience design, and attention to detail.
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