Product Manager, OS Platforms

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. When you bring passion, dedication, teamwork, and a sense of ownership to your job, there's no telling what you can accomplish!

As a member of our Worldwide Product Marketing group, you’ll represent the customer in key product efforts, from concept through development and launch. You’ll develop and apply insights to help bring 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 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, and sales for maximum impact across the organization.

Description

We are looking for a highly motivated Product Manager to join the Worldwide Product Marketing team. The Product Manager will be responsible for working across our software platforms on key aspects including release schedules, launch deliverables, product excellence, and messaging. Dynamic, creative people and inspiring, innovative technologies are the norm here.

Are you passionate about building compelling products and ready to join an amazing team? Then we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Serve as the central hub across our software platforms, orchestrating release timelines and launch deliverables, along with helping to drive new features and craft product messaging
• Partner closely with engineering and program management teams on software release timelines across platforms, including major and minor software updates, security releases, and betas coordination with cross functional partners across product marketing, PR, and marketing communications
• Help drive product excellence across platforms, partnering with engineering leads to identify opportunities to further refine user experiences and continually raise the bar for our users
• Distill insights and inform product decisions through a combination of competitive analysis, usage data, and voice of the customer insights
• Closely follow emerging technology, consumer, and societal trends and make recommendations for how products will fit into those emerging trends
• Drive the end-to-end process for producing launch marketing materials that tell a compelling story of our software for media and users, coordinating with dozens of feature PMs as well as partners across marketing communications and PR on tight timelines
• Work with marcom and PR to develop product launch activities, press releases, and marketing materials
• Possess expert knowledge of competitive and 3rd party products
• Travel the world as the ambassador for your product attending press briefings and customer visits

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in product marketing, product management, and/or project management roles with familiarity around software development cycles and delivering critical project features.
• Recent experience within the last 2 years in one or more of the following software segments: operating systems, software integration, computer or mobile apps or hardware, or adjacent.
• Best-in-class oral and written communication skills with an ability to drive communication with key stakeholders, the media, and public, as demonstrated by exceptional presentation skills: developing keynote addresses in an area of subject matter expertise, synthesizing information, applying critical thinking and maintaining composure under pressure.
• Experience driving coordinated product development and launch processes across product and engineering partners, with rigorous attention to detail and airtight communication.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of computer operating systems preferred but will consider mobile/tablet platform experience as well.
• Hands-on experience formulating product messaging and creating outbound marketing for both technical and consumer audiences, and/or partnering with engineering and design during early research and development to define product strategy and roadmap, and with marketing and public relations to craft positioning, and define marketing activities.
• Demonstrated success as a product spokesperson on a national or global level.
• Strong ability to lead through influence, debate and storytelling.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product strategy and roadmap, craft positioning, and define marketing activities.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills; thrives in highly collaborative projects, effective at building consensus, handles high stakes decisions with ease, with the ability to cut through ambiguity.
• A self-starter who is dedicated and demonstrates creative and critical thinking abilities.
• Able and willing to travel internationally.
• BS/BA and/or MBA.