Apple

Data Products & Business Intelligence Lead - Wallet, Payments & Commerce

Apple$150K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • 10+ years in design, development, and deployment of data products.
  • 3+ years as a senior individual contributor in data products and AI analytics.
  • Strong proficiency in SQL, Scala, and Python; experienced with data pipeline tools.
  • Understanding of data warehousing and dimensional modeling.
  • Experience with Generative AI/LLMs for analytics use cases.
  • Ability to influence across teams, with strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build analytical data products for Wallet, Payments & Commerce.
  • Drive end-to-end delivery of privacy-first analytics platforms.
  • Collaborate with product, design, engineering, and business teams.
  • Derive actionable insights from large and complex data sources.
  • Deliver dynamic decision tools that enhance customer experience.
  • Create interactive self-serve decision tooling with high accuracy.
  • Establish the analytics foundation for a key Apple business area.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
  • Collaborative team culture that encourages feedback and innovation.
  • Access to cutting-edge tools and technologies in analytics.
  • A focus on independent decision-making and smart risk-taking.
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

10+ years of experience designing, developing, and deploying next-generation data and AI-powered analytical products.

3+ years as a senior IC leading the development of data products, AI-enabled analytics, 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.

Strong understanding of data warehousing, dimensional data modeling, semantic/metrics layers, and metric standardization.

Experience applying Generative AI/LLMs and agentic AI patterns to analytics use cases such as insight generation, natural-language data exploration, and workflow automation.

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

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

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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