Apple

Product Manager, watchOS

Apple$120K — $160K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in product marketing or management, with full product lifecycle experience.
  • Experience creating product messaging for technical and consumer audiences.
  • Recent work in smartwatch/wearables/fitness/health software or related software segments.
  • Strong communication skills for stakeholder engagement and media presentation.
  • Preferably familiar with wearable operating systems or relevant mobile technologies.
  • Exceptional storytelling and interpersonal skills for collaborative environments.
  • Self-starter with a mix of creative and analytical thinking.

Responsibilities

  • Lead product messaging and launch strategies for watchOS.
  • Define new features shaping the future of the Apple Watch.
  • Collaborate with engineering and design during product development phases.
  • Work with marketing and public relations to position the product.
  • Drive stakeholder communication to build strong external relationships.
  • Synthesize technical information for varied audiences, including media and analysts.
  • Handle high-stakes decisions and navigate through ambiguity.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to create impactful product experiences for millions.
  • Collaborative team environment with industry leaders.
  • Ability to influence product strategy at a major tech company.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge technologies in wearable devices.
  • Opportunity for international travel and global engagement.
Full Job Description
Description

We are looking for a highly motivated Product Manager to join the Worldwide Product Marketing team for watchOS. This individual will be responsible for leading the messaging, launch deliverables, and release strategy for watchOS along with helping to define new features that will shape the future of Apple Watch.

Are you passionate about creating product experiences that impact the well-being of millions of customers and ready to join an amazing team? Then we want to hear from you!

Minimum Qualifications

4+ years experience in product marketing and/or product management roles, including at least one entire product development cycle from concept to launch with consumer software products and technologies for software platforms.

Hands-on experience formulating product messaging and creating outbound marketing for both technical and consumer audiences, and/or partnering with engineering and design during early research and development to define product strategy and roadmap, and with marketing and public relations to craft positioning, and define marketing activities.

Recent experience within the last 3 years in one or more of the following software segments: smartwatch/wearables/fitness/health software, mobile operating systems, software integration, computer or mobile hardware, or adjacent.

Ability to drive communication with key stakeholders, the media, and public, as demonstrated by exceptional presentation skills: developing keynote addresses in an area of subject matter expertise, synthesizing information, applying critical thinking and maintaining composure under pressure.

Preferred Qualifications

Deep understanding of wearable operating systems preferred but will consider mobile/tablet experience as well.

Experience and ability to synthesize technologies into product communication for broad audience including customers, media, analysts, and industry specialists.

Best-in-class oral and written communication skills.

Strong ability to lead through influence, debate and storytelling.

Exceptional interpersonal skills; thrives in highly collaborative projects, effective at building consensus, handles high stakes decisions with ease, with the ability to cut through ambiguity.

A self-starter who is dedicated and demonstrates creative and critical thinking abilities.

Press and media experience with demonstrated success as a product spokesperson on a national or global level.

Able and willing to travel internationally.

BS/BA and/or MBA.

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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