Engineering Program Manager, App Store, Apple Services Engineering

Role overview

Role responsibilities

• Lead delivery of business-critical features for the App Store ecosystem.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, design, QA, legal, privacy, trust and safety, operations, and other organizations.
• Manage pipelines supporting new App Store features for developers and customers.
• Drive large cross-functional projects, managing scope, requirements, timelines, resource allocation, stakeholders, communications, and risks.
• Define business, functional, and reporting requirements, often writing them directly.
• Improve how App Store features are built and executed.

Minimum qualifications

• 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.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field, or at least 5+ years of comparable experience.
• A technical background with software application architecture and development is helpful.

Preferred qualifications

• Strategic thinking, problem-solving, and ability to turn ambiguous or conflicting inputs into action plans.
• Strong communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Ability to own multiple tasks through completion with minimal oversight.
• iOS app development experience is a major plus; game development or games industry experience is an added plus.
• Experience using AI tools to improve recurring-task efficiency is preferred.
• Past programming experience is a bonus.

Compensation

• Base pay range is $130,200–$195,600; pay depends on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
• The role may be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments.

Benefits

• Benefits include medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, discounted products and services, and eligible education expense reimbursement.
• Employees may be eligible for discretionary stock programs and employee stock purchase plan participation.