Beats and Ecosystems Products - Color EPM

Apple is looking for a world-class Engineering Program Manager to join the Color & Texture team for Home, Beats, and Ecosystem Products.

Description

Apple EPMs are responsible for building and communicating project definition, development milestones, project status, and aligning critical decision points in the development of new products. An EPM should be able to prioritize issues and track the details as well as be in touch with the big-picture program needs.

EPMs are fearless organizers who are ready to work with the highly skilled Mechanical Design and Industrial Design teams to identify and explore many parallel efforts while balancing and maintaining flexibility under the pressure of a tight schedule. The EPM will interact with different engineering design disciplines including but not limited to Reliability, Marketing, Packaging, Manufacturing, Component Engineering, and other resources inside and outside Apple.

The EPM is also the key interface between Industrial Design, Product Design, and Executive Leadership while driving preparedness and updates. Success is defined in terms of the quality, preparedness, organization, and execution of narrowing design options into the product.","responsibilities":"Create and maintain decision matrices and following project schedules. Evaluate course of action in a timely manner when issues arise

Enable the development effort by creating and supervising an efficient, streamlined process

Provide timely issue resolution and critical path management

Offer multiple levels of status across a wide spectrum of individual contributors to executive management

Understand technical issues and drive them to closure by bringing together key partners for facilitating decision-making

Reporting and presenting to senior management on project status and schedules

Preferred Qualifications

MS ME/EE/CE degree or equivalent

Experience in consumer/portable products with high cosmetic requirements

Experience working with off shore suppliers and manufacturers

A working understanding of high volume manufacturing processes

Experience in research development and prototyping

Minimum Qualifications

BS ME/EE/CE degree or equivalent

5+ years of experience as an practicing engineer or program manager

Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed

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