Product Management Team Lead, Apple
Mac
$200.4-301.4k
Eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
Travel for product launches
Office located in Cupertino, CA
Personal technology company
Job no longer available
Personal technology company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$200.4-301.4k
Eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
Travel for product launches
Office located in Cupertino, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
Apple's mission is to bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of Product Management experience with a focus on consumer electronics products
- Successful track record of working closely with design and engineering teams during the full product lifecycle, including research, planning, implementation, and launch
- History of managing teams and scaling organizations through processes that drive team growth, efficiency, and productivity
- Exceptional organizational, communication, and leadership skills with experience in building consensus cross-functionally, driving collaboration by building positive relationships and bringing to bear data and handling high stakes decisions with ease with the ability to cut through ambiguity
- Proven oral and written communication skills including product storytelling; ability to explain technical concepts thoughtfully to non-technical partners and deliver compelling presentations for a broad audience including customers, media, analysts, and industry experts. Apple Keynote presentation-building skills preferred
- Structured thinker and keen strategist who understands technological and social trends, including their differences across geographies. Demonstrated ability to prioritize investments accordingly and drive fast decision-making
- Ability to operate seamlessly between highly detailed and technical situations and strategic business situations
- Experience with computer technology. Experience in professional customers, workflows, and software (video, music, 3D, development, science, AI, medical, etc.) is a plus
- Travel for product launches
- BS/BA degree, MS/MA/MBA preferred
What the job involves
- We're looking for a highly motivated Team Lead to join the Mac Team as part of the Worldwide Product Marketing broader team and community
- As a member of our Worldwide Product Marketing group, you’ll represent customers throughout a product line’s journey from concept through development and launch
- You’ll develop and apply insights to help infuse innovative features into our product development process
- Together with our team, you’ll work to craft groundbreaking ideas into tangible products that excite the world
- At Apple, we combine product management/development and product marketing responsibilities into a single, cross functional Product Management role that collaborates with design, engineering, finance, legal, marketing communications, public relations, market research, sales and support for maximum impact across the organization
- The Product Management Team Lead within the Mac team is responsible for product management and marketing of several product lines within the Mac hardware team
- As a team lead, you will have a team of talented product managers and will be responsible for managing daily operations, planning, and developing skills
- You will work with key cross-functional partners from Engineering to Operations and Design to represent our customers’ needs and influence and impact new product definition
- You will also drive product management for the currently shipping product lines and lead all marketing deliverables for new products in collaboration with Marketing and Geo teams
- Provide marketing, product and business leadership to specific product lines within the Mac business — including defining business, product and marketing strategies
- Lead a team of skilled product managers — growing their talents through coaching and mentorship opportunities in addition of supporting their work and providing guidance
- Oversee the definition of products, positioning and key messaging across product lines
- Drive the business and product roadmap working in a global cross-functional team with engineering, industrial and product design, finance, marketing communications, public relations and many others throughout the product lifecycle. Overseeing all steps of the process from product design to product development, product launch and post launch activities
- Understand and communicate user needs and perspectives to inspire the broader organization, and help conceptualize new products and features
- Evangelize and pitch new ideas to cross functional teams and executives. Distill insights by using data to inform product decisions from competitive analysis, financial data and voice of the customer insights
- Negotiate product trade-offs impacting customers needs and schedule
Our take
With a market capitalisation that reached $3 trillion in 2022, Apple is the world's most valuable company. A vertically integrated approach and obsessive focus on the user experience have helped to make Apple one of the most successful companies in the world.
Since taking over at Apple, Tim Cook has been carefully curating the company's reputation as a champion of consumer privacy, trying to set the company apart from others that monetise their users' data.
The company even went as far as to introduce sweeping privacy changes which made it difficult to tailor ads to Apple’s 1bn+ iPhone users. This rocked the $400bn digital ads market, seriously harming the revenue of its bigger rivals in the lucrative industry and forcing them to rebuild their ad infrastructure.
Despite this, the company has been shaken by supply chain issues and moved a considerable amount of its manufacturing from China to India, and increased its Vietnam presence. This is because of multi-pronged production disruption in China, the second largest customer market for Apple, and triggered an estimated 10% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2023.
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Company benefits
- Everyone has different needs and schedules, and that’s why we offer medical plans that cover both physical and mental healthcare
- In addition, employees have the option to access medical professionals from almost anywhere and get free confidential counselling — virtual or in person
- You could also be eligible for help with fitness-related expenses
- Our medical coverage plans include family-friendly features such as fertility treatments
- Because we know there’s more than one way to bring a new child into your family, we support all kinds of new parents with paid leave and our gradual return-to-work programme
- You also get paid time away if you need to care for an ill family member and free guidance to help you find support for childcare, elderly care, legal referrals and more
- At Apple, we make sure women earn the same as men performing similar work. As part of that effort, your salary history is history — we won’t ask
- Every employee here also has the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder, because all are eligible for stock grants and also a discount when purchasing Apple stock
- To help you prepare for retirement, our pension can help you meet your savings goals. And to help you prepare for the unexpected, you’ll have the security of multiple forms of income protection
- Plan on developing both professionally and personally. Apple University creates classes, seminars and beyond-the-classroom tools that help employees understand Apple’s culture, organisation, values, and role in the world. You can sharpen general business and software skills through online classes
- For more formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, we’ll reimburse you for certain educational expenses, including tuition
- Whether you’re exploring personal pursuits, welcoming a new child or caring for a family member, rest assured that you’ll have paid time away when you need it most
- When you give money to an eligible organisation, we’ll match your donations one-for-one, so your contribution is doubled. And if you choose to donate your time, we’ll contribute US$25 for every hour you volunteer. Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match your contributions up to US$10,000 a year
- Get the world’s best prices on the world’s best products — Apple products. You’ll also get deals on great third-party accessories
- And there are services to help you manage life’s day-to-day tasks: dinner reservations, pet-sitters, shopping, personal travel, financial guidance and more
Company values
- We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products
- We believe in the simple, not the complex
- We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make
- We participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution
- We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us
- We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot
- We don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change
Company HQ
Cupertino, CA
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Leadership
Tim Cook
(CEO, not founder)Joined Apple in 1998 and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO in 2011. Previously Spent 12 years with IBM, most recently as director of North American Fulfilment, where he led manufacturing and distribution functions for IBM’s Personal Computer Company in North and Latin America
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