Engineering Program Manager, App Store, Apple Services Engineering

About the App Store team

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of business-critical App Store features under tight timelines and with limited direction.
• Drive scope, requirements, timelines, resource allocation, reporting, stakeholder management, communications, and risk assessments.
• Define business and functional requirements for features and supporting systems.
• Apply data modeling, state machine design, and understanding of technical and human interaction aspects of tooling.
• Own cross-functional schedules affecting client, server, tools, reporting, and multiple engineering teams.

Minimum qualifications

• At least 5 years of technical program and/or project management experience involving complex server-client interactions.
• Track record of building products through collaboration across product, design, engineering, QA, operations, and other stakeholders.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field, or at least 5 years of comparable experience.
• Technical background in software application architecture and development is helpful.

Preferred qualifications

• Strong strategic thinking, problem solving, logical structuring, communication, presentation, facilitation, ownership, and accountability skills.
• Experience with iOS app development is a major plus.
• Experience in game development or another games-industry background is an added plus.
• Experience using AI tools to optimize recurring tasks and improve operational efficiency is preferred.
• Previous programming experience is a bonus.

Pay and benefits

• Base pay is listed as $130,200 to $195,600, with the final amount depending on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
• Benefits may include medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, discounted products and services, education expense reimbursement, stock programs, discretionary bonuses or commissions, and relocation support, subject to eligibility.