Program Manager Foundation Jobs in California (NOW HIRING)

As a member of the Foundation Modeling Data EPM group, you will be responsible for Apple's ability to use data to power its products for hundreds of millions of users around the world. You will work with the Foundation Modeling Data organization to deliver on our vision to make data the voice of our customers, and to inform product and machine learning development. We're looking for an experienced hands-on program manager to partner with data engineering, data science, product, and client engineering teams.
Do you have a track record of successful program management across complex initiatives? Have you worked on highly leveraged data-schema processes, data efficiency initiatives, or data pipelines? Are you excited about driving the technical projects vital to efficiently scale our understanding of our products in privacy compliant ways? Do you thrive working with teams to focus on what matters? We would like to talk to you.
Description
In this role, you will be responsible for creating and managing project schedules with clear dependencies, a defined critical path, and a systematic methodology to communicate status. You will proactively drive alignment across the organization and between teams, managing risks and mitigations while remaining agile enough to re-plan as events warrant. As a primary problem solver, you will identify issues and solutions early, marshaling the resources necessary to resolve them while coordinating with cross-functional teams to prioritize tasks and track risks to both schedule and product quality.
Your impact will be felt through clear, timely, and objective communication, including regular program status updates and the escalation of critical issues to the executive team. By breaking down complex issues into manageable discussion topics, you will drive engineering and design alignment, maintaining a steadfast orientation toward teamwork and collaboration. Ultimately, you will drive on-time delivery and deployment by identifying development needs and establishing key achievements for checkpoints. Beyond daily execution, you will continuously reflect on how the team operates, proposing and implementing new ways to work to improve the rate at which we deliver value to our customers.
Minimum Qualifications
4+ years project management, engineering management, and/or QA/QC engineering experience for software development quality in a fast paced, incredibly sophisticated service.
Technical program management or engineering ownership of data collection, pipelines, or tools used by internal engineering teams; experience driving on roadmaps/long-term strategy of internal tools & systems.
Experience gathering, analyzing, and presenting data and metrics to back up assumptions, make recommendations and drive actions.
Career examples of hands-on involvement of delivering instrumentation, data platforms, data tools, or data processes that improved the customer experience.
Outstanding communication and presentation skills, written and verbal, to all levels of an organization.
BS/MS in EE/CS/CE or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications
Self-motivated, independent, and proactive; demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities; can quickly triage, prioritize, and lead under pressure.
Strong analytical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving skills
Proficiency in Agile, SDLC development processes
Strong leadership skills, including coaching, team-building, conflict resolution, and management
Superior group facilitation, interviewing and influence skills
Ability to communicate abstract ideas clearly and independently manage complex project objectives
Bonus if you have prior data analysis experience (SQL, Python/Jupyter Notebooks, Tableau, Superset)
Bonus if you have prior experience exploring data formats and tools for big data systems (e.g. Parquet, Avro, Protobuf).
Bonus if you have prior experience working with data engineers (e.g. engineers who use tools such as Airflow, Luigi, Jenkins, MapReduce, Pig, Spark, Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Greenplum, Vertica, etc.)