Senior Manager, Product Management- System

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new insights have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. You bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish! We believe in the power of combining product management and product marketing together - that the best person to communicate why a product is meaningful to consumers and developers is the same person that helped drive its creation!

As a Senior Manager, Product Management at Apple, you will help lead product marketing for the System Experience across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS which includes system UI experiences such as Lock Screen, Home Screen, Control Center, Widgets, and Stand By. In addition, this includes leading system apps like Calendar, as well as efficiency features like Continuity, multitasking, file management, and Shortcuts, to input experiences like Quick Type, emoji and Apple Pencil.

In this leadership role, you will demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and communication skills to effectively mobilize cross-functional teams to accomplish a common goal. We are seeking candidates who thrive in dynamic environments and have a natural instinct to collaborate with others.

We are looking for a product marketing and product management leader who will play a key role in driving product strategy and roadmap, and crafting product messaging. You will have significant experience working closely with engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to define product strategy, positioning, and marketing activities.

As Senior Manager, Product Management on the Worldwide Product Marketing team, you will help define product strategy, positioning and key product messages as well as position the product in relation to the competition. In addition, you will collaborate with a global cross-functional team including engineering, design, developer relations, public relations and marketing communications through the complete product development cycle.

You will also drive features and technologies that span iOS, iPadOS, macOS, thinking critically about how they apply to each platform to best fit the needs of the user. By closely following emerging technology, consumer, and societal trends, you will recommend how products will fit into those emerging trends. This includes collecting global customer, developer, and partner requirements for future product development and developing expert knowledge of competitive and 3rd party products.

Evaluate new technologies and make recommendations to pursue in future products, and manage trade-offs involving features, schedule, cost, line positioning, and lifecycle management.

• Product & Roadmap Influence:
  Work directly with engineering and design teams to ensure user needs are integrated into product planning and development from the earliest stages. Provide strategic input on technical roadmaps. Translate market insights and stakeholder feedback into actionable product requirements.
• Storytelling:
  Deeply understand technical implementations of relevant features, then craft narratives that make these innovations accessible and compelling to non-technical audiences.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  
  Partner closely with cross functional teams across Apple to ensure alignment on strategy, messaging, and execution.
• Team Leadership & Development:
  Build, mentor, and inspire a high-performing team of specialists. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and customer advocacy. Develop team members' skills in both technical understanding and stakeholder communication.

• 10+ years Product Management experience, including at least one entire product development cycle from concept to launch
• Hands-on experience formulating product messaging and creating outbound marketing for both technical and consumer audiences, and partnering with engineering during early research and development to define product strategy and roadmap, and with marketing and public relations to craft positioning, and define marketing activities
• Recent experience within the last 3 years with consumer software products and…