Apple

AIML - Sr Engineering Program Manager, Search and Answer Relevance

Apple$140K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in large-scale program management focused on machine learning products.
  • Excellent program management skills for managing interdependent work streams.
  • Self-motivated with creative and critical thinking abilities.
  • Strong communication skills for conveying complex ideas clearly to diverse audiences.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Responsibilities

  • Drive consensus among diverse groups, influencing teams toward a common goal.
  • Create and manage comprehensive project schedules, highlighting dependencies and critical paths.
  • Proactively identify, manage, and communicate risks and project adjustments as necessary.
  • Ensure teams remain focused on critical objectives, minimizing distractions.
  • Provide regular, transparent updates to executive stakeholders on project status.
  • Promote proactive communication channels across dependency teams to maintain alignment.
  • Lead initiatives to measure success through key performance indicators and quality metrics.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on products impacting over 1 billion users.
  • Collaboration with world-class engineers in deep learning and AI.
  • Access to innovative technologies including Large Language Models.
  • Potential for career growth in a leading tech environment.
  • Inclusive culture that values user experience and quality enhancements.
Full Job Description
Were looking for a Senior Program Manager with a strong track record of delivering search products and world knowledge answering features using innovative technologies upon an aggressive timeline. The program manager will lead a large cross functional project to help improve Apples over 1 billion customers experience. The role will work with world level deep learning and AI engineers applying groundbreaking AI technologies including Large Language Models to enable exciting new user experiences and continue improving quality for shipped features.

Description

- Drive consensus across multiple groups with varying opinions & needs. Influence entire teams around a common purpose and drive conference on the plan of execution

- Create and manage project schedules with clear dependencies, critical path and systematic methodology to communicate status

- Proactively identify and manage risks, close gaps and and re- plan as needed

- Keep teams on critical path with efforts to minimize distractions

- Provide clear, timely and objective communication, including regular program status updates and one-off reviews as needed to executive team

- Keep an eye on any potential gaps across dependency teams and proactively promote regular communications on common source of truth

- Proactive and regular insurance of alignments across all stake holder teams when new factors arise

- Lead measurements to help team understand and measure success, including quality, usage scale and other key KPIs

- Advocate for user and company values when leading team to convergence on key open questions

- Lead early feedback collection from internal dogfooding during feature convergence, drive team to address feedback in feature iterations

- Advocate for quality and user experience, using both quantitative and qualitative data

- Reflect on how the team operates, proactively propose and implement new ways to enable more effective processes & delivery of results

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years of experience in driving large scale program building machine learning powered products.

Excellent program management skills including program structuring and managing multiple work streams interdependently

Self-motivated and proactive, with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities required to forge a path to success

Strong ability to communicate abstract ideas clearly, manage comprehensive yet succinct project status update to all levels of audience, both verbally and in written forms

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, or related field and equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

8+ years experience in delivery search and generative answer quality improvements is a plus

Strong ability to deal with ambiguities, drive disambiguation and clarities, shepherd multiple teams to meet aggressive timeline

Experience orchestrating the delivery of multiple significant client/server software products requiring large organizations (100+) across teams to execute

Strategic and results driven mindset focusing on driving what matters

Strong leadership skills, including conflict resolution, negotiation, courage to take risks when needed

Strong adaptability and agility in making adjustments to project strategy and plan with evolving situations

Strong problem-solving skills with attention to details

Solid knowledge of technical system architecture and systems design tradeoffs

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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