Apple

Sr. Business Ops Program Manager, Apps

Apple$138K — $165K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in Business Operations, Planning, or Program Management
  • Proven experience managing complex portfolios with global teams
  • Ability to translate legal and business considerations into actionable requirements
  • Track record of leading multi-disciplinary teams toward unified outcomes
  • Proficiency with productivity and AI tools for workflow efficiencies
  • Strong communication skills for executive-level engagement
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the central operational backbone for a cross-functional program
  • Wrangle timelines and lead executive review sessions
  • Ensure seamless content access for AI models
  • Establish governance frameworks and track negotiation pipelines
  • Coordinate support between Business and partner teams
  • Surface risks proactively and drive decisions across teams
  • Challenge assumptions and resolve cross-team friction effectively

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and projects
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Recognition for results-driven performance
  • Flexibility in work arrangements
Full Job Description
The Applications team is looking for a dynamic Senior Business Operations Program Manager to serve as the backbone for a high-stakes, cross-functional program spanning AIML, Siri, Apps, and Legal. This role demands a proactive, detail-oriented leader who thrives when program parameters, legal constraints, and strategic priorities shift rapidly.

Description

In this role, you will serve as the central operational backbone-wrangling timelines, leading executive reviews, and ensuring seamless content access for AI models. You will orchestrate program operations, from establishing governance frameworks and tracking negotiation pipelines to coordinating Business and partner team support. You have a natural inclination to take accountability for end-to-end delivery, proactively surface silent risks, and drive decisions across matrixed leadership. A successful Program Manager has exceptional interpersonal skills with the finesse to challenge assumptions, resolve cross-team friction, and rally teams behind unified program goals.

Minimum Qualifications

6+ years of experience in Business Operations, Planning, or Program Management, with a clear track record of increasing operational responsibility

Demonstrated ability to manage complex portfolios with intricate delivery schedules and cross-team dependencies spanning global time zones and locales

Proven experience translating nuanced legal and business considerations into actionable requirements that engineering and product teams can execute against

Track record of orchestrating multi-disciplinary teams with divergent goals toward unified program outcomes

Proficiency with modern productivity and AI tools, including demonstrated experience leveraging AI and automation to create workflow efficiencies and reduce manual overhead

Strong comfort in executive stakeholder communication, including developing briefing materials, presentation decks, and synthesized status reports for senior leadership

Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience in a comparable operations or program management capacity

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in financial operations, AI and search environments, or business development contexts

Outstanding organizational and presentation skills, with the ability to distill complex, ambiguous situations into clear narratives for leadership

Skilled in building and maintaining relationships with internal cross-functional teams

Solid track record of driving multiple concurrent, high-complexity cross-functional projects to completion under tight timelines

Demonstrated sense of urgency and ownership when resolving blockers, with the resilience to stay the course on broader business priorities

Executive presence and comfort presenting to senior and executive leadership in high-pressure settings

Comfort with metrics, operational reporting, and the full software product lifecycle from concept through launch

Ability to anticipate downstream problems, brainstorm solutions quickly, and resolve cross-team friction without losing sight of strategic objectives

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
Market Cap
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Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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