Engineering Program Manager, App Store, Apple Services Engineering

About the App Store team

Role responsibilities

• Lead delivery of business-critical App Store features across engineering and partner organizations.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and features, including scope, requirements, timelines, resource allocation, stakeholder management, communications, and risk assessment.
• Define business, functional, and reporting 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 other engineering teams.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Design, QA, Legal, Privacy, Trust and Safety, Operations, and other organizations.

Minimum qualifications

• At least 5 years of technical program and/or project management experience involving complex server and client interactions.
• Track record of building products through collaboration across product, design, engineering, QA, operations, and other stakeholders.
• Technical background with software application architecture and development.
• 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

• Strong strategic thinking, problem solving, logical structuring, communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Ability to turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into actionable plans.
• Ability to take ownership and drive multiple tasks to completion with minimal oversight.
• Experience with iOS app development, game development, or the games industry.
• Experience using AI tools to optimize recurring tasks and improve operational efficiency.
• Past programming experience.

Pay and benefits

• The base pay range for the role is $130,200 to $195,600 per year, depending on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
• Benefits may include medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, product discounts, educational expense reimbursement, and discretionary stock programs.
• The role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, commission payments, or relocation support.