Apple

Retail Online Communications Manager

Apple$110K — $130K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • 7 years of project or program management experience
  • 3 years of mentoring and offering feedback
  • Experience in presenting and influencing senior leadership
  • Proven ability to manage multiple global projects
  • Experience leading geographically distributed teams
  • Willingness to work outside standard hours and travel as needed

Responsibilities

  • Lead a globally distributed team of developers and project managers
  • Drive strategy and execution for customer communications
  • Translate technical requirements for business teams
  • Present insights and recommendations to senior leadership
  • Adapt communication style for diverse audiences
  • Optimize direct-to-customer messaging channels
  • Foster an inclusive team culture across time zones

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and training
  • Support for a diverse and inclusive work environment
  • Exposure to diverse projects within a global context
  • Possibility of flexible working hours
  • Travel opportunities for business requirements
Full Job Description
The Apple Retail Customer Care team is seeking an experienced manager to lead a team of software developers and technical project managers responsible for our transactional customer communications. In this role, you will guide a team to build, scale, and optimize the direct-to-customer communications that reach millions of Apple customers every day.

Description

As the Retail Online Communications Manager, you will lead a globally distributed team that creates email, SMS, and other direct-to-customer transactional communications. Operating in a fast-paced, continually changing environment, you will drive the strategy and execution of these critical customer touch points and translate between technical and business teams to turn ideas into action. You will also present insights and recommendations to leadership, adapting your communication style to fit cross-functional audiences.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent experience

7 years of experience managing projects or programs

3 years of experience mentoring and guiding others through developmental and timely feedback, project milestones, and deliverables.Experience presenting to and influencing senior leadership through written and verbal communication, including advocating for the customer experience in written content

Experience managing multiple projects and programs simultaneously across a global scope

Experience leading geographically distributed teams while supporting a diverse and inclusive team culture

Ability to work outside of standard business hours and travel as business needs require

Preferred Qualifications

10+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams with worldwide scope

Experience with transactional communications, direct-to-customer messaging channels, and related infrastructure

Experience managing remote or globally distributed teams across multiple time zones

Technical leadership experience, including familiarity with templating engines, such as Apache Velocity, and software development practices

PMP, Scrum Master, or related project management certification

Experience navigating confidential information within matrixed organizational structures

Ability to foster an inclusive, collaborative team culture across a distributed workforce

Understanding of Apple's brand voice, with the ability to advocate for the customer experience across written communications

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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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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