Apple

Director of Privacy Engineering, Services

Apple$150K — $200K *
Consumer Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of software development experience
  • 5+ years leading engineering organizations with multiple layers of management
  • 3+ years in privacy leadership
  • Deep expertise in large-scale privacy systems and tools
  • Command of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs)
  • Exceptional communication skills with stakeholders
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of engineers and specialists
  • Champion Apple’s privacy values across multiple functions
  • Educate product teams on privacy-preserving solutions
  • Shape product decisions and drive privacy investments
  • Influence organization-wide privacy programs
  • Develop innovative approaches to emerging privacy challenges
  • Collaborate across disciplines to protect user privacy

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at scale with a globally recognized leader
  • Impact billions of users worldwide
  • Ability to drive privacy as an engine for innovation
  • High visibility role with influence across the organization
  • Work within a culture that values privacy as a key product value
Full Job Description
Description

You will lead a talented group of engineers and specialists whose systems, tools, and techniques enable teams across Apple Services Engineering to deliver features and product measurement while meeting the highest privacy standards. You and your team will represent and champion Apple's privacy values alongside Engineering, Security, Compliance, Legal, Product, and other functions, educating product teams, guiding them to privacy-preserving solutions, and providing tools they can build on.

In this high-visibility role, you will serve as a privacy authority and trusted advisor to leadership across the company, shaping product decisions, driving organization-wide privacy investments, and influencing programs that impact billions of users worldwide.

As AI features grow rapidly, new privacy challenges emerge. You and your team will meet these challenges by working across disciplines to invent approaches that protect privacy on this new frontier.

If you are energized by working at massive scale and turning privacy into an engine for innovation at one of the world's most influential companies, this role was made for you.

Minimum Qualifications

15+ years of software development experience, including 5+ years leading engineering organizations with multiple layers of management and 3+ years in privacy leadership.

Proven track record of recruiting, developing leadership talent, and building high-performing engineering cultures at scale.

Deep expertise designing, building, and operating large-scale privacy systems, tools, and infrastructure, with strong instincts for technical excellence and software development best practices.

Command of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) such as differential privacy, federated learning, on-device processing, tokenization, and data de-identification.

Ability to shift seamlessly between deep technical details and big-picture strategy, with the judgment to know when each is required.

Exceptional communication skills: able to drive clarity in ambiguity, distill complex concepts concisely, and engage stakeholders at all levels.

Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with a track record of influencing outcomes across diverse organizations without direct authority.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

Proven ability to manage a broad set of stakeholders, balancing competing priorities and consistently delivering the systems and support each needs to succeed.

Experience navigating privacy challenges specific to AI/ML, including training data governance and model inference privacy.

Strong platform product sensibility: the ability to think holistically about developer experience, adoption, and business impact, not just technical or regulatory constraints.

Experience developing privacy strategy collaboratively, balancing competing trade-offs, and influencing company-wide technical direction.

Track record of building privacy programs from the ground up and scaling their impact across large organizations.

Strong understanding of privacy regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA.

Experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams.

Prior experience at a consumer technology company where privacy is treated as a product value, not just a compliance obligation.

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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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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