Apple

Data Products & BI Lead - Wallet, Payments & Commerce

Apple$120K — $160K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of experience in designing, developing, and deploying analytical data products
  • 3+ years in a senior individual contributor role in data product development
  • Strong proficiency in SQL, Scala, Python; experience with data pipeline tools (e.g., Apache Spark, Kafka, Airflow)
  • Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and data visualization tools
  • Deep understanding of data warehousing, data modeling (dimensional/star schemas)
  • Excellent executive communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences

Responsibilities

  • Design and build analytical data products for Apple's Wallet, Payments & Commerce
  • Lead the end-to-end delivery of scalable analytics platforms
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance decision-making tools
  • Leverage large data sources to derive actionable insights
  • Develop interactive self-serve decision tooling with a focus on accuracy and compliance
  • Define the analytics foundation for Wallet, Payments & Commerce
  • Drive innovation with best-in-class systems and tools

Benefits

  • Work in a culture that encourages rapid iteration and open feedback
  • Opportunity to define analytics for a key business area
  • Contribute to building future-focused metrics and AI-driven tools
  • Collaborate with various teams to enhance customer experience
Full Job Description
Design and build the next generation of analytical data products for Apple's Wallet, Payments & Commerce - from instrumentation specs to last-mile datasets and interactive Visualization. Serves as a hands-on Data Product & BI Lead, driving end-to-end delivery of scalable, privacy-first analytics platforms that power trusted insights across the organization.

Description

Our culture is about getting things done iteratively and rapidly, with open feedback and debate along the way; we believe analytics is a team sport, but we strive for independent decision-making and taking smart risks. Our team collaborates deeply with partners across product, design, engineering and business teams: our mission is to drive innovation by providing the business and data scientist partners best in class systems and tools to make decisions that improve the customer experience. This will include leveraging large and complex data sources, helping derive actionable insights, delivering dynamic and intuitive decision tools, and bringing our data to life via interactive self serve decision tooling with an eye to meet high standards of trust, accuracy, legal and privacy compliance.

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated team player, skilled in a broad set of data product tools and techniques with a strong sense of Apple design philosophy. The candidate will have the ability to adapt and learn quickly, provide results with limited direction, and choose the best possible path forward at all times.

This is a rare opportunity to define the analytics foundation for one of Apple's most strategically important business areas - Wallet, Payments & Commerce. You won't be maintaining the status quo; you'll be building the future - from metrics architecture to AI-driven decision intelligence - at a scale and quality standard that only Apple demands.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience

8+ years of experience in designing, developing and deploying next-gen Analytical Data Products.

3+ years as a senior IC leading the development of data products and visualizations across multiple lines of business.

Strong proficiency in SQL, Scala, Python with hands-on experience in data pipeline tools (e.g., Apache Spark, Kafka, Airflow), CI/CD practices, and version control.

Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and hands-on experience with modern data management and visualization platforms.

Strong understanding of data warehousing, data modeling (dimensional/star schemas), and metric standardization.

Demonstrated ability to influence without authority across engineering and business teams

Excellent Executive communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with digital payments or fintech data - transaction metrics, funnel analytics, financial KPIs

Familiarity with AI-driven analytics / conversational BI

Knowledge of data governance, data cataloging, and metadata management

Strong SQL skills, with exposure to Python and large-scale data processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark)

Experience working closely with data engineering and platform teams to align on data models, and infrastructure/platform requirements

Experience navigating complex organization dynamics and driving cross-functional initiatives to completion in a fast-paced environment

Proven record in leading junior engineers to build metrics or BI foundation

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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