Engineering Program Manager, App Store, Apple Services Engineering

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Design, QA, Legal, Privacy, Trust & Safety, Operations, and other organizations.
• Manage pipelines supporting new App Store features and drive large cross-functional projects.
• Deliver features supporting Apple Developer and customer experiences.
• Manage scope, requirements, timelines, resource allocation tracking, stakeholders, communications, and risk assessments across concurrent projects.
• Define business, functional, and reporting requirements, often writing them directly.

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.
• A technical background in software application architecture and development is extremely helpful.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field, or at least 5 years of comparable experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Strategic thinking, problem-solving, logical structuring, and ability to turn ambiguous inputs into action plans.
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Ability to own and complete multiple tasks with minimal oversight, with motivation and accountability.
• iOS app development experience is a major plus; game development or games-industry background is an added plus.
• Experience using AI tools to improve recurring tasks and operational efficiency; past programming experience is a bonus.

Compensation and benefits

• Base pay range is $130,200 to $195,600; pay depends on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
• The compensation package may include discretionary stock programs and, subject to eligibility, bonuses or commission payments and relocation.
• Benefits include medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, discounted products and services, and possible education-expense reimbursement.