Product Design Leader

Summary

We are looking for a Product Design leader to drive the creation of Apple's Home hardware products. You will own the end-to-end product development lifecycle for a portfolio of products spanning audio, visual, and sensing domains, each with distinct identities but designed to work together as a coherent system. You will build and lead a high-performing PD organization, set the technical direction for new product architectures, and partner deeply with Industrial Design, Hardware Engineering, Silicon, Software, and Operations to deliver world-class hardware on aggressive timelines.

Description

You will lead Product Design for Apple's home hardware line, taking products from early architecture through mass production. This means owning mechanical architecture, system-level design, driving integration across electrical, thermal, acoustic, optical, and antenna domains, and ensuring products ship at Apple quality and scale.

Preferred Qualifications

MS or advanced degree in engineering
Experience leading product development for products where acoustic, optical, or sensor performance is central to the user experience
Demonstrated ability to drive system-level architecture decisions that span mechanical, electrical, thermal, and software domains
Familiarity with cost-driven design tradeoffs at scale, including silicon and module selection, BOM optimization, and platform reuse strategies
Experience building or restructuring product development organizations
Track record of effective cross-functional leadership in environments where key partners sit outside your reporting chain

Minimum Qualifications

10+ years experience in mechanical design, 8+ years in engineering management, preferably working experience in consumer electronics
BS in Mechanical Engineering or related field
Extensive experience in product development engineering, with significant time spent in engineering leadership roles, preferably in consumer electronics
Track record of shipping high-volume, tightly integrated electromechanical products from concept through mass production
Deep understanding of mechanical engineering fundamentals: materials, thermal management, structural analysis, tolerance systems, and manufacturing processes (injection molding, die casting, machining, stamping, extrusion, etc.)
Strong design validation background: FEA, tolerance analysis, failure analysis, DOE, prototype-driven development
Experience managing teams across multiple simultaneous programs at different lifecycle stages