Apple

Head of Executive Experiences & Innovation Lab

Apple$180K — $220K *
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 12+ years in client management or engagement roles
  • 5+ years in direct people management
  • Experience with Executive Briefing Center or Innovation Lab programs
  • Strong consultative skills for executive-level discussions
  • Technical fluency with Apple technologies in enterprise IT
  • Ability to analyze data and communicate insights effectively

Responsibilities

  • Guide the strategic direction of Apple's Executive Briefing Center program
  • Shape the strategy for the Enterprise Innovation Lab
  • Act as a trusted consultant to sales and marketing teams
  • Build a cross-functional network of Apple platform leaders
  • Develop a premier discussion leader program for internal teams
  • Continuously innovate and inspire through program content
  • Monitor program impact using data-driven analysis

Benefits

  • Access to cutting-edge technology and innovation
  • Opportunity for career growth and leadership development
  • Collaborative work environment across diverse teams
  • Involvement in high-profile executive partnerships
  • Engagement with senior executives and C-suite audiences
Full Job Description
We are seeking a dynamic leader to elevate and scale Apple's Executive Briefing Center program and Enterprise Innovation Lab globally, with direct responsibility for the Americas team. You will be responsible for the executive experiences of our largest enterprise customers and partners - briefings that inspire and educate, lab engagements that transform industries with the Apple platform. If you are passionate about building relationships, accelerating technology adoption, driving applied innovation, and creating lasting mindshare for Apple through world class experiences, we want to hear from you.

Description

Architect World-Class Experiences

Guide the strategic direction of Apple's Executive Briefing Center program. Influencing the creation of memorable, high profile executive briefings with top executives from every industry. In this role you will manage of team of briefing professionals to align Apple's priorities and industry insights with account-specific objectives while maintaining programmatic consistency across all regions.

Lead the Enterprise Innovation Lab

Shape the Enterprise Innovation Lab strategy - inspiring the adoption and integration of Apple platform technologies into existing and new industry use cases. Through a strategic and consultative approach you will lead a team of strategy, design and technical specialists who sit at the forefront of on-device AI innovation - meeting customers and partners where they are in their innovation journey and driving measurable business outcomes.

Drive Strategic Partnerships

Act as a trusted consultant to sales and product marketing teams. Proactively build a pipeline of high-priority EBC and Innovation Lab engagements, matching the right program tier to where each customer sits in their innovation journey. Use both venues as strategic levers to strengthen executive relationships, accelerate deal velocity, and solve real business challenges.

Curate the Expert Network

Build and manage a cross-functional network of Apple platform leaders and subject matter experts to support strategic lab engagements, ensure the right expertise is matched to each opportunity.

Empower Internal Voices

Build and manage a premier discussion leader program. Coach account teams, technologists, and internal experts on briefing preparation, facilitation, and follow-through to ensure compelling, resonant presentations and demonstrations.

Innovate & Inspire

Continuously explore how Apple platform technologies can amplify both the EBC and Innovation Lab experience. Identify content gaps, steer the creation of new demos and reusable assets, and evolve program formats as Apple's platform capabilities expand.

Elevate Experiences and Places

Collaborate with teams across Apple to ensure the EBC and Lab spaces evolve alongside Apple's products, enabling new experiences and elevating customer and partner engagements.

Measure & Optimize

Monitor program impact through data-driven analysis and compelling storytelling. Define success metrics across both programs - briefing outcomes and Innovation Lab engagements (ie. platform adoption of engaged cohorts). Collaborate with stakeholders to surface opportunities for continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

12+ years of relevant experience leading cross-functional programs, client management, or customer engagement initiatives in complex, matrixed environments; 5+ years in a direct people management leadership role.

Proven experience shaping customer or partner engagement through an Executive Briefing Center, Innovation Lab, or similar experiential learning program.

Strong consultative skills, with a demonstrated ability to lead executive discussions and ideation sessions with executive audiences.

Solid understanding of enterprise sales cycles, best practices, and how EBC and innovation lab programs can be leveraged together to directly influence sales outcomes.

Technical fluency with Apple platform technologies and how they interplay with the broader Enterprise IT ecosystem.

Demonstrated ability to establish success metrics, analyze data, and communicate program ROI through clear, data-driven insights.

Exceptional communication and collaboration skills across all organizational levels, including deep listening, executive presentation, and the ability to influence others to invest in new initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

Background in management consulting or client services specifically within the enterprise technology space.

Direct experience planning and executing high-impact executive roundtables, large-scale industry events, or running a dedicated EBC or Innovation Lab.

Experience building, scaling, or managing a corporate discussion leader/speaker program or cross-functional expert bench.

Proven expertise in developing strategic communications and tailored content specifically designed for senior leadership and C-suite audiences.

Familiarity with design thinking methodologies, rapid prototyping frameworks, or tiered innovation engagement models (ideation to prototyping to deployment).

Experience managing physical lab or demo environments, including hardware lifecycle, AV systems, and experience design.

Track record of coordinating technical specialists (strategy, engineering and design practitioners) in customer-facing delivery roles.

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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