Engineering Program Manager, App Store, Apple Services Engineering

About the App Store Engineering Team

Role Overview

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of business-critical App Store features under tight timelines and with incomplete information.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects across scope, requirements, schedules, resources, reporting, stakeholders, communications, and risks.
• Define business, functional, and reporting requirements for features and supporting systems.
• Apply data modeling, state machine design, and technical and human interaction knowledge to tooling.
• Own schedules spanning client, server, tools, reporting, and multiple engineering teams.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Design, QA, Legal, Privacy, Trust and Safety, Operations, and other organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong strategic thinking, problem solving, logical structuring, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills are preferred.
• The ability to turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into action plans is preferred.
• Experience taking ownership of multiple tasks with minimal oversight is preferred.
• iOS app development experience is a major plus.
• Game development or games-industry experience is an added plus.
• Experience using AI tools to optimize recurring tasks is preferred.
• Previous programming experience is a bonus.

Minimum Qualifications

• At least five years of technical program and/or project management experience involving complex server and client interactions.
• A track record of building products through collaboration across product, design, engineering, QA, operations, and other stakeholders.
• A technical background with software application architecture and development is helpful.
• A BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field, or at least five years of comparable experience.

Pay and Benefits

• The stated base pay range is $130,200 to $195,600, with actual pay determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
• Benefits may include medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, discounted products and services, educational expense reimbursement, discretionary bonuses or commissions, and relocation support.