Data Solutions Product Manager

Data Solutions Product Manager

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. The people here at Apple don't just create products — they create the kind of wonder that's revolutionized entire industries. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts.

Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it.

Product Operations group is looking to add a Product Manager to support data systems, automation, and tools that enhance manufacturing of Apple's products. You will be responsible for driving solutions from ideation through to deployment, ensuring readiness of data collection and reporting for Apple's products around the world. This team works to ensure our product manufacturing data collection, analytics, and reporting are ready along with new product requirements during their many life cycles (prototype through sustaining).

This team is made up of creative innovators and problem solvers who tackle unique challenges to ideate, translate those ideas into concepts, and deliver new solutions in the data space. It takes deeply dedicated, intelligent, and hard-working individuals to maintain and exceed the high expectations for the exciting products  Product Operations Data Team is looking for an extraordinary Product Manager.

You will craft, design, and implement our data strategy across the massive supply chain and help build the future of our manufacturing systems. Do you love using your creative right brain and structured, tactical left brain to drive projects, build systems, and find operations efficiencies? If this sounds like you, come join our team.

• Product management of data initiatives — scoping, prioritization, resourcing, implementation, and strategic planning.
• Build and lead cross-functional teams; plan roadmaps, feature prioritization, agendas, schedules, and deliverables; assign actions; drive completion.
• Provide strategic and tactical recommendations for improving service levels and reducing expenses, with critical metrics for performance management.
• Identify inefficient processes and lead the definition and execution of scalable, data- and AI-driven solutions to improve process efficiencies and support core internal customer needs.
• Lead the ideation, prototyping, and business justification/validation of solutions for Product Operations.
• Prototype solutions before providing recommendations on direction — e.g., create dashboard mock-ups before investing in development effort.
• Comfortable and flexible in serving both supporting and leadership roles across various projects.

• Minimum 3+ years of product or program management experience, ideally including internal product management, in a highly technical field.
• BS degree or equivalent combination of education and experience; MBA is considered a plus.

• Program/product management background with a proven track record of end-to-end project execution.
• Analytical mindset with familiarity with databases, large data sets, dashboards, and business intelligence tools — with the ability to apply them for planning, problem-solving, and identifying improvements.
• Experience with manufacturing infrastructure concepts, with the ability to define requirements or identify process improvements.
• Proven relationship-building skills and the ability to effectively influence peers and management.
• General operations and factory knowledge; good judgment on what is meaningful to drive impact.
• Tableau/data visualization skills and scripting (Python, SQL).
• Skilled at distilling complex problems into simple explanations under tight timelines, and presenting findings at both working and executive levels.
• Comfortable working independently while managing multiple priorities in an unstructured, global, virtual environment.
• Highly desirable (but not required) to have…