AIML – Sr Engineering Program Manager, Search and Answer Relevance – Apple

[Machine Learning, AI]
Cupertino, California, United States
July 1, 2025
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Job 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 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 stake holder 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
  • 8+ years of experience in driving large scale program building machine learning powered products.
  • 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
  • 8+ years experience in delivery 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

 

 

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