AIML - Senior Engineering Program Manager, FM
Job Description
Summary
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Do you love taking on challenges that create a positive impact? Are you passionate about empowering many ground-breaking intelligent experiences to be made? The Apple AIML org is building groundbreaking technology, and we are looking for people like you!
Play a part in shipping groundbreaking technology for large-scale systems, natural language, and artificial intelligence. We are looking for an engineering program manager to lead the development of the next phase of our ML international locales' expansion. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of conceptualizing and delivering technically sophisticated platform projects. They will have a solid understanding of the mechanics of developing ML systems and what it takes to scale and ship them to billions of users worldwide. They will be managing and coordinating projects with vendors, annotation platform teams, legal, finance, and partner data scientists & engineers to create data assets which are used to power and evaluate ground breaking machine learned experiences.
Play a part in shipping groundbreaking technology for large-scale systems, natural language, and artificial intelligence. We are looking for an engineering program manager to lead the development of the next phase of our ML international locales' expansion. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of conceptualizing and delivering technically sophisticated platform projects. They will have a solid understanding of the mechanics of developing ML systems and what it takes to scale and ship them to billions of users worldwide. They will be managing and coordinating projects with vendors, annotation platform teams, legal, finance, and partner data scientists & engineers to create data assets which are used to power and evaluate ground breaking machine learned experiences.
Key Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in program management, particularly in the data acquisition of ML technologies, international locales experience is a plus.
- Strong understanding of machine learning concepts and technologies. Detailed understanding of building, evaluating and release management processes for ML systems.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex technical information to diverse audiences.
- Demonstrated skill of negotiating and distilling sophisticated technical requirements from multiple partners into a coherent long term platform roadmap
- Experience leading cross functional security and privacy initiatives and collaborating with Legal, Privacy Engineering, Security and other teams across the organization to ensure compliance with privacy policies and security mandates
- Excellent project management skills including project structuring and running multiple work streams interdependently
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across the organization
- Ability to independently draft and present deliverables, recommendations and communication strategies
Description
Specific Responsibilities Include:
- Lead high profile Foundation Model programs, responsible for roadmapping, establishing goals with DRIs and reporting statuses to executives regularly and succinctly
- 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 lead project schedules with clear dependencies, critical path and systematic methodology to communicate status
- Proactively identify and handle risks, close gaps with the ability to switch gears on projects in an agile manner
- 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
- Plan yearly and quarterly budgets for data acquisition
- Maintain awareness of the Privacy and Legal aspects of data management and regional regulations, ensuring the team is meeting company-wide requirements
- Lead high profile Foundation Model programs, responsible for roadmapping, establishing goals with DRIs and reporting statuses to executives regularly and succinctly
- 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 lead project schedules with clear dependencies, critical path and systematic methodology to communicate status
- Proactively identify and handle risks, close gaps with the ability to switch gears on projects in an agile manner
- 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
- Plan yearly and quarterly budgets for data acquisition
- Maintain awareness of the Privacy and Legal aspects of data management and regional regulations, ensuring the team is meeting company-wide requirements
Education & Experience
Bachelor's or Master's degree in EE/CS/CE or equivalent
Additional Requirements
- Experience in leading human annotation efforts preferred
- Experience in data analytics and software engineering preferred
- Experience with Data and Machine Learning products is a plus
- Prior PM or engineering experience in speech recognition, natural language understanding, data pipelines is a plus
