At Apple, great ideas become extraordinary products - and the people behind them make all the difference. We believe that if you bring passion and dedication to your job, there's no telling what you could accomplish!
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. Apple's Worldwide Product Marketing (WWPM) team sits at the intersection of product management and marketing. We shape what gets built and how it reaches the world.
As Team Lead for Productivity and Design Apps, you will own the product strategy and marketing for some of Apple's most loved apps: Keynote, Notes, Freeform, and more. You will lead a talented team of product managers, partner closely with engineering and design, and help define experiences used by hundreds of millions of people every day. This is a rare role where you will act as the voice of the customer inside Apple and the voice of Apple to the world.
As the Product Management Team Lead, you will manage a portfolio of critical applications. You will be responsible for driving engagement across free applications. For the applications in Apple Creator Studio, you will drive user engagement, trials, and subscriptions.
If you are curious, passionate, and obsessed with user problems; you love great products and the technology behind them; you bring data to decisions, but you also trust your instincts; you have clear views of industry trends including how AI is impacting user workflows; you build consensus without ego and thrive in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment: We want to hear from you!
Define and drive product strategy for Productivity and Design apps across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS, and the web
Research and synthesize industry, technology, market and competitive trends to identify new product opportunities
Collect and use data to inform product decisions
Evangelize and pitch new ideas to cross functional teams and executives
Understand and communicate user needs and perspectives to inspire the broader organization, and help conceptualize new products and features
Negotiate trade-offs on schedule and scope to protect user experience and business goals
Partner with engineering and design to turn user needs into great experiences
Build compelling narratives about new features for customers, media, analysts, and executives
Launch products & features worldwide in partnership with marketing communications, public relations, and events teams
Lead a team of skilled product managers - supporting their work and ongoing development
10+ years of Product Management, including at least one full product development cycle from concept to launch
2+ years of experience managing teams and building efficient, scalable processes
Hands-on experience formulating product messaging and creating outbound marketing for both technical and consumer audiences, and partnering with engineering during early research and development to define product strategy and roadmap, and with marketing and public relations to craft positioning, and define marketing activities
Recent experience within the last 3 years in one or more of the following segments: productivity and/or design applications, collaboration platforms, and subscription business, or adjacent
Ability to drive communication with key stakeholders, the media, and public, as demonstrated by exceptional presentation skills: developing keynote addresses in an area of deep subject matter expertise, synthesizing information, applying critical thinking and maintaining composure under pressure
Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
A track record of working closely with design and engineering teams during through the full product lifecycle, including research, planning, implementation, and launch
Experience positioning, launching and pricing consumer software products
Strong storytelling skills - you can make complex technology clear and exciting for any audience (customers, media, analysts, industry experts, etc)
Sharp business judgment - you know how to make tough calls and trade off priorities to drive optimal outcomes
Structured thinker and keen strategist who understands technological and creative trends, including their differences across geographies
Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills
Energetic and detail oriented
MS/MA/MBA preferred
We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.
There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.