Sr. Engineering Program Manager (EPM), Ad Platforms
Job Description
Summary
At Apple, we work every day to create products that enrich people’s lives. Our Advertising Platforms group makes it possible for people around the world to easily access informational and imaginative content on their devices while helping publishers and developers promote and monetize their work. Our platforms are highly performant, deployed at scale, and set new standards for enabling effective advertising while protecting user privacy.
The Ad Platforms EPM team is looking for a highly-functioning, dedicated, and versatile senior Engineering Program Manager (EPM) who can lead a portfolio of the most pivotal initiatives that drive our products’ performance and business growth.
This is a highly visible, strategic role for a seasoned Engineering Program leader that includes building relationships and partners across multiple Engineering and Product leads to drive a technical roadmap of cross-functional initiatives (portfolio) through delivery, inclusive of timelines, planning, requirements, and dependencies.
The Ad Platforms EPM team is looking for a highly-functioning, dedicated, and versatile senior Engineering Program Manager (EPM) who can lead a portfolio of the most pivotal initiatives that drive our products’ performance and business growth.
This is a highly visible, strategic role for a seasoned Engineering Program leader that includes building relationships and partners across multiple Engineering and Product leads to drive a technical roadmap of cross-functional initiatives (portfolio) through delivery, inclusive of timelines, planning, requirements, and dependencies.
Description
As a Senior Engineering Program Manager (EPM), you will:
- Lead the end-to-end execution of strategic initiatives across the Ad Platforms Engineering organization, optimizing processes and ensuring timely delivery of critical projects.
- Collaborate closely with leadership and cross-functional teams to align on technical roadmaps that reflect both product and engineering priorities.
- Be responsible for project planning, delivery, work breakdowns, prioritization, and day-to-day project management using suitable methodologies needed to meet timelines and results.
- Drive strategic conversations with leadership to develop and track a technology roadmap that encompasses technical debt assessment, prioritization, and project sequencing.
- Communicate status updates regularly to Ad Platforms’ executive leadership, ensuring clear insight into project achievements, challenges, and dependencies.
- Foster strong, collaborative relationships with internal and external partner teams, approaching all interactions with empathy, understanding, and a focus on balancing competing priorities and deadlines.
- Lead the end-to-end execution of strategic initiatives across the Ad Platforms Engineering organization, optimizing processes and ensuring timely delivery of critical projects.
- Collaborate closely with leadership and cross-functional teams to align on technical roadmaps that reflect both product and engineering priorities.
- Be responsible for project planning, delivery, work breakdowns, prioritization, and day-to-day project management using suitable methodologies needed to meet timelines and results.
- Drive strategic conversations with leadership to develop and track a technology roadmap that encompasses technical debt assessment, prioritization, and project sequencing.
- Communicate status updates regularly to Ad Platforms’ executive leadership, ensuring clear insight into project achievements, challenges, and dependencies.
- Foster strong, collaborative relationships with internal and external partner teams, approaching all interactions with empathy, understanding, and a focus on balancing competing priorities and deadlines.
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of demonstrated ability managing complex, cross-functional projects in a large engineering organization accountable for the development and deployment of applications and services at Apple scale.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation, presentation, and influence at all levels,including executive leadership.
- Strong desire to learn, skills for problem-solving, and the ability to make sophisticated trade-offs.
- Self-motivated, independent, and proactive; demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities; can quickly (real-time) triage, prioritize, and lead cross-functional teams under pressure.
- Proven technical proficiency, you quickly learn key technologies related to your initiatives and beyond.
- Strong familiarity with long lead time projects, phase management, oversight and communication, and leadership through the entire project lifecycle.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading engineering programs within advertising technology or related industries.
- Proficiency in cloud computing technologies, containerization, and scalable architectures.
- Familiarity with data pipelines, Big Data platforms, and analytics-driven decision-making.
- Demonstrated ability to manage projects involving privacy and security considerations.
- Experience with Agile, Scrum, or other iterative development methodologies.
- Expertise in balancing multiple complex initiatives with competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
