Apple

Technical Project Manager, Employee Experience & Productivity

Apple$120K — $150K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years in embedded technical support for film and TV production.
  • 5+ years of project management in large-scale studio and VFX environments.
  • 5+ years working with cloud storage architectures for engineering teams.
  • Preferred: Experience managing end-to-end media workflows and acting as a liaison between production and engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Manage project timelines and deliverables for media and entertainment systems.
  • Standardize development tracks from proof-of-concept to implementation.
  • Collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders.
  • Translate creative needs into technical requirements for projects.
  • Oversee corporate governance processes for projects.
  • Navigate legal, security, and privacy review cycles effectively.
  • Utilize macOS media tools to deploy and manage service requests.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a dynamic media and entertainment environment.
  • Engagement with advanced technologies like cloud storage and AI.
  • Collaboration with a diverse range of talented professionals.
  • Career development opportunities through exposure to complex projects.
Full Job Description
Description

We are seeking a skilled Technical Project Manager to join the IS&T Content Engineering team. This role involves project management for our media and entertainment projects and systems, catering to the dynamic needs of our production clients and internal business units. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, delivering robust solutions while maintaining a strong focus on technical excellence, standardizing development tracks from proof-of-concept to final implementation, bridging complex engineering infrastructure with actionable, data-driven business needs. Excellent communication and organization skills are essential as you will collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.

5+ years embedded technical support in film and TV production.

5+ years project management experience within large-scale studio and VFX environments or equivalent experience.

5+ years experience with cloud storage architectures for engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Film & TV Production Experience: 5+ years managing end-to-end media workflows and acting as the technical liaison between creative production and engineering teams.

Media Systems & Orchestration: Expertise in enterprise-level production infrastructure, including petabyte-scale MAM workflows and cloud storage architectures (e.g., AWS).

Technical Project Lifecycle Management: Drives complex technical projects from POC and MVP through to full implementation using Agile methodologies.

Creative-to-Technical Translation & Client Partnership: Translates creative needs into actionable technical requirements while owning end-to-end client relationships, timelines, and communications.

Studio & Corporate Project Management: Manages enterprise-scale media projects using standard project management methodologies and governance processes.

Corporate Review Process Management: Navigates legal, security, and privacy reviews, seamlessly integrating these cycles into project timelines and managing stakeholder expectations.

Technical Systems & Service Management: Deploys macOS media tools and utilizes ITSM platforms (e.g., Zendesk, ServiceNow) to triage requests and manage SLAs.

AI & Automation: Leverages AI and LLMs to build practical solutions, automate data pipelines, and generate business insights.

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