AIML - Engineering Program Manager, Speech Recognition & Dictation

Summary

Posted: May 2, 2024

Role Number:200549972

At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Do you love taking on challenges that create a positive impact for millions of people? The Speech Recognition & Dictation team at Apple is building groundbreaking technology and new user experiences. We need an experienced EPM to help lead the charge! We’re looking for a senior engineering program manager with a proven track record of building and maintaining complex software platforms, tools and processes that help deliver new end-to-end consumer experiences.

Key Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in project or program management shipping products driven by machine-learned systems to worldwide users
• Have personally orchestrated the delivery of multiple significant client/server software products requiring large organizations (100+) to accomplish
• Analytic mentality and obsession for data, solid understanding of metrics measuring machine learning models and overall system quality
• Excellent project management skills including project structuring and managing multiple work streams interdependently
• Detailed understanding of testing, build and release processes for sophisticated software
• Demonstrated skill of negotiating and distilling sophisticated technical requirements from multiple partners into a coherent long term platform roadmap
• Demonstrated data-driven decision-making skills, including experience leading metrics-driven projects or programs.
• Superior group facilitation, interviewing and influence skills
• Ability to communicate abstract ideas clearly, and independently manage complex project objectives
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation, presentation and influence
• Ability to independently draft and present deliverables, recommendations and communication strategies

Description

As a Senior Program manager in the AIML PM team you will personally lead software product initiatives critical to the input experience for all Apple devices. You will coordinate all aspects of development including specifications, scope, requirements, and delivery. Partner with engineering and product leadership across Apple to align Siri’s product with Apple’s company wide strategy. Represent deliver progress with other corporate functions (marketing, product security, legal, etc.), run feature stabilization/convergence processes, and help prepare featured demos for Apple events. Plan: Create and manage project schedules with clear dependencies, critical path and systematic methodology to communicate status. Manage risks and mitigations, and re-plan as events warrant. Drive alignment across the organization and between teams Problem solve: Proactively identify issues and solutions, and marshal resources necessary to attack and resolve. Coordinate with teams to identify issues, prioritize tasks and track risks to schedule and product quality, including cross-functional dependencies Communicate: Provide clear, timely and objective communication, including regular program status updates and critical issues as needed to executive team Coordinate: Coordinate discussions and break down complex issues into discussion topics to drive engineering and design alignment with support from project team, maintaining an orientation toward teamwork and collaboration Execute: Drive on time delivery and deployment, identifying development and feasibility needs, establishing achievements for checkpoints and status updates Continuously Improve: Reflect on how the team operates, propose and implement new ways to work in order to improve the rate at which the team delivers value to customers.

Education & Experience

BS/MS/PhD CS/CE/EE or Equivalent

Pay & Benefits

• At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $132,300.00 and $241,500.00, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
  
  Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purch