Apple

Business Manager - Worldwide Product Marketing Finance, AI

Apple$135K — $160K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in a highly analytical role
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Finance, Economics, or similar
  • Agile with the ability to context switch across diverse business areas
  • Demonstrated experience collaborating across teams like Marketing and Engineering
  • Strong communication skills for varied audiences
  • Detail-oriented with a proactive ownership mindset
  • Proficient in Excel; knowledge of SQL, Tableau, R, and Python is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Influence business decisions for Apple's AI product roadmap
  • Advise on business model opportunities and feature decisions
  • Collaborate with Engineering to translate technical details into financial insights
  • Align with Services team on AI-related business questions
  • Analyze usage trends and technical benchmarks to inform strategy
  • Create and defend demand forecasts for senior leadership
  • Support special projects and requests for senior management

Benefits

  • Opportunity to impact key decisions within a leading tech company
  • Collaboration across a vast array of teams and disciplines
  • Exposure to senior leadership and high-level decision-making
  • Engagement in a rapidly evolving field of AI
  • Lean organizational structure fostering business ownership
Full Job Description
Apple is looking for a multifaceted, highly motivated Business Manager to join the Worldwide Product Marketing (WWPM) Finance team supporting AI. This is a rare opportunity to provide the financial lens to one of the most dynamic and rapidly evolving areas of Apple's product roadmap. As the Business Manager for AI, you will collaborate across an exceptionally broad set of partners - from Product Marketing to Services, Engineering, Infrastructure, and beyond - and have direct exposure to the highest levels of decision making at Apple. We're looking for a true finance athlete: someone who can context switch with ease, ramp quickly on unfamiliar topics, and operate effectively across a wide range of teams and problem types. The lean structure of Business Management fosters high business ownership and offers a unique platform to influence strategic decisions at Apple from product concept to launch. Description Influence and drive business and product decisions for Apple's AI roadmap in cross-functional partnership with Product Marketing Managers, Services, Engineering, Infrastructure, Operations, Finance, Customer Analytics, Sales and Market Research Advise on business model opportunities, feature arbitration, and line-up decisions with business analyses considering revenue, cost, and margin implications by integrating a multitude of varied data sources Partner closely with Engineering and Infrastructure teams to understand the cost drivers behind AI features and translate technical complexity into clear financial insight Collaborate with the Services team to align on shared business questions, ensuring AI-related decisions are evaluated holistically across the Apple ecosystem Absorb and dissect usage trends, customer activation trends, buyer surveys, external market research, and technical performance benchmarks to inform product and business strategy Integrate various datasets to create, present, and defend demand forecasts, scenarios, and other business insights to senior leadership Support stealth investigations, special projects, and ad-hoc requests for senior Apple leadership Minimum Qualifications 4+ years of experience in a highly analytical role with frequent exposure to business case and scenario modeling Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or another quantitative field Preferred Qualifications A true finance athlete - adaptable, agile, and able to context switch seamlessly across multiple workstreams, business areas, and stakeholder groups Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally across a broad and varied set of partners, including Product Marketing, Services, Engineering, Infrastructure, and other technical teams Comfort navigating product, engineering, and infrastructure topics with a keen interest to ramp quickly on new and unfamiliar technical content Deep passion for Apple's products and mission, and a genuine interest in AI and its implications for Apple's business Ability to work comfortably under ambiguity to deliver fully developed and well-reasoned analyses Strong and structured communicator, able to distill complexity for a wide range of audiences Ownership mindset and high agency to take a proactive role in leading project work-streams from end-to-end Strong attention to detail and the ability to "see around corners" High proficiency in Excel modeling, with strong competency (or aptitude to learn) in SQL, Tableau, R, and Python Adept at managing senior stakeholder relationships across both finance and non-finance partners

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.

Apple Careers

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Learn more about Apple
Size
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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