Apple

Senior Product Operations Manager, Find My

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

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in business operations or program management, including 5 years in senior leadership.
  • Proven experience managing and developing team leads or individual contributors.
  • Experience in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, adapting strategy in real-time.
  • Skilled in prioritizing resources across competing initiatives.
  • Hands-on experience in implementing metrics to track team performance.
  • Track record of anticipating organizational changes and adjusting plans proactively.
  • Strong communication skills for influencing stakeholders without formal authority.

Responsibilities

  • Develop strategic plans for the Find My product team.
  • Operationalize annual plans with cross-functional technical collaboration.
  • Mobilize resources to achieve team growth and delivery goals.
  • Ensure commitments are fulfilled and problems are effectively addressed.
  • Build and lead cohesive teams, motivating and enabling members.
  • Assemble the right talent and support collaborative efforts.
  • Create plans that drive impactful outcomes across organizational boundaries.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Opportunity to lead innovative product development initiatives.
  • Access to professional development and career advancement opportunities.
  • Flexibility in navigating a rapidly changing marketplace.
  • Engagement in meaningful projects that enhance global user experiences.
Full Job Description
This organization drives outcomes that fuel our ongoing development of products and services, enriching the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world. In this role, you will lead a team of Find My individual contributor experts, developing team strategy, innovative approaches and solutions to solve challenging problems to achieve communicated performance metrics and targets. You'll build relationships across Apple, drive new team capabilities, and ensure flawless execution. You'll collaborate closely with internal and external leaders to create plans and programs that scale and drive amazing outcomes.

Description

-Develop plans aligned to the team's broader organizational strategy and goals across key aspects of the Find My product.

-Operationalize annual plans with cross-functional programs and technical teams.

-Mobilize resources for growth and delivery.

-Follow through to ensure all commitments are met and problems addressed.

-Build and lead great teams.

-Assemble the right people, motivate them, enable them with the right tools, and support their collaboration.

Minimum Qualifications

10+ years of experience in business operations, program management, or general management, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role leading multi-disciplinary teams, with a track record of balancing short-term delivery against building sustainable, long-term value.

Proven experience directly managing and developing managers or team leads/individual contributors, including hiring, performance management, and career development responsibilities.

Demonstrated experience operating in fast-changing, ambiguous environments where you had to adapt strategy in real time.

Experience prioritizing and reallocating resources across competing initiatives under time pressure, with specific examples of trade-off decisions you've made and their outcomes

Hands-on experience implementing and running operating cadences, metrics, and review processes to track team performance against goals.

Track record of anticipating organizational shifts and proactively adjusting plans ahead of them, rather than reacting after the fact.

Experience conducting competitive and market analysis that directly informed strategic decisions, with specific examples.

Experience leading cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple teams or departments (e.g., engineering, product, design, marketing) without direct authority over all contributors, and successfully driving them to completion.

Experience building relationships and gathering input across a wide network of internal stakeholders and subject matter experts to inform decision-making.

Experience influencing senior stakeholders and decision-makers, both within your own organization and in partner or external organizations, without formal authority over them.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience navigating cross-organizational dependencies at a large, matrixed company, with specific examples of how you identified and managed interdependencies to keep initiatives on track.

Experience adapting quickly to shifting or unique stakeholder requirements, with specific examples of building influence and alignment across internal and external groups with competing priorities.

Experience mediating disputes or negotiations between stakeholders and driving resolution with minimal escalation, including examples where you made a difficult call under pressure.

Experience distilling ambiguous, multi-variable problems into clear recommendations for executive audiences, e.g., through structured frameworks or executive summaries.

Experience revisiting or reversing a prior decision based on new data or analysis, even after significant time/resources had been invested, and owning the outcome with stakeholders.

Experience building a team from the ground up or significantly scaling an existing team, including recruiting, onboarding, and mentoring talent.

Experience identifying and resourcing gaps on a team or project proactively, before they became blockers, with specific examples.

Experience conducting user or stakeholder research (e.g., interviews, surveys, feedback sessions) to directly inform product, program, or business decisions.

Track record of exceeding measurable goals or targets in a prior role, with specific metrics where possible.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to and aligning senior stakeholders or executives on complex or ambiguous initiatives.

Experience prioritizing effectively under competing deadlines and ambiguity, with examples of seeing an initiative through despite setbacks or resistance.

Experience coaching or mentoring team members toward individual goals, with examples of measurable growth or promotion outcomes.

Experience developing a new strategy or approach from scratch, using structured analysis to identify what to cut and what to prioritize, with a specific example of a strategy you shaped.

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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154,000 employees
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Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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