AIML - Sr Engineering Program Manager, Search Quality and Partnerships

3 weeks ago• Seattle, WA
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Industry: Technology, Information Technology, Software, Consumer Goods & Services

Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other's ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It's the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you'll do more than join something - you'll add something.

We're looking for a Senior Engineering Program Manager with a strong track record of delivering search products with world knowledge answering features using innovative technologies upon an aggressive timeline. The program manager will lead a large cross functional project to help improve Apple's over 1 billion customers experience. The role will work with world level deep learning and AI engineers applying groundbreaking AI technologies including Large Language Models to enable exciting new user experiences and continue improving quality for shipped features.

Description- Drive consensus across multiple groups with varying opinions & needs. Influence entire teams around a common purpose and drive conference on the plan of execution

• Create and manage project schedules with clear dependencies, critical path and systematic methodology to communicate status

• Proactively identify and manage risks, close gaps and re-plan as needed

• Keep teams on critical path with efforts to minimize distractions

• Provide clear, timely and objective communication, including regular program status updates and one-off reviews as needed to executive team

• Keep an eye on any potential gaps across dependency teams and proactively promote regular communications on common source of truth

• Proactive and regular insurance of alignments across all partner teams when new factors arise

• Lead measurements to help team understand and measure success, including quality, usage scale and other key KPIs

• Advocate for user and company values when leading team to convergence on key open questions

• Lead early feedback collection from internal dogfooding during feature convergence, drive team to address feedback in feature iterations

• Advocate for quality and user experience, using both quantitative and qualitative data

• Reflect on how the team operates, proactively propose and implement new ways to enable more effective processes & delivery of results","responsibilities":"Drive End-to-End program execution across multiple teams

Align stakeholders and maintain execution transparency

Manage technical dependencies and system integration

Drive continuous improvement and operational excellence

Preferred Qualifications8+ years experience in delivering search and generative answer quality improvements is a plus

Strong ability to deal with ambiguities, drive disambiguation and clarities, shepherd multiple teams to meet aggressive timeline

Experience orchestrating the delivery of multiple significant client/server software products requiring large organizations (100+) across teams to execute

Strategic and results driven mindset focusing on driving what matters

Strong leadership skills, including conflict resolution, negotiation, courage to take risks when needed

Strong adaptability and agility in making adjustments to project strategy and plan with evolving situations

Strong problem-solving skills with attention to details

Solid knowledge of technical system architecture and systems design tradeoffs

Minimum Qualifications8+ years of experience in driving large scale program building machine learning powered products

3+ years experience bringing a product from concept to completion, ideally working on machine-learning features and/or sophisticated backend and front-end systems

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Deep understanding of software development for machine-learned products and services, and how analytics and evaluation data can help improve those products

Strong desire to learn, aptitude for problem solving, and the ability to make sophisticated trade-offs

Excellent program management skills including program structuring and managing multiple work streams interdependently

Self-motivated and proactive, with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities required to forge a path to success

Strong ability to communicate abstract ideas clearly, manage comprehensive yet succinct project status update to all levels of audience, both verbally and in written forms

Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science, or related field and equivalent experience

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant .

Client-provided location(s): Seattle, WA

Job ID: apple-200628097-3337_rxr-660

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-01-07T19:12:54
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