Product Design Leader

We are looking for a Product Design leader to drive the creation of Apple's Home hardware products. You will own the end-to-end product development lifecycle for a portfolio of products spanning audio, visual, and sensing domains, each with distinct identities but designed to work together as a coherent system. You will build and lead a high-performing PD organization, set the technical direction for new product architectures, and partner deeply with Industrial Design, Hardware Engineering, Silicon, Software, and Operations to deliver world-class hardware on aggressive timelines.

Description

You will lead Product Design for Apple's home hardware line, taking products from early architecture through mass production. This means owning mechanical architecture, system-level design, driving integration across electrical, thermal, acoustic, optical, and antenna domains, and ensuring products ship at Apple quality and scale.","responsibilities":"Building, mentoring, and organizing a product development team capable of executing across multiple concurrent programs in varying stages of maturity

Driving product architecture decisions that account for system-level tradeoffs: cost structure, silicon capability, thermal envelope, acoustic performance, and sensor integration

Owning the detailed engineering development process from concept through EVT/DVT/PVT and into sustained production

Partnering with Industrial Design to converge on product forms that serve both user experience and engineering feasibility

Working closely with Software, AI/ML, and platform teams to ensure hardware designs enable evolving software capabilities, not just point-in-time feature sets

Collaborating with Operations and manufacturing partners to drive design-for-manufacturing excellence and resolve production challenges

Contributing to multi-year product roadmap planning, including technology bets and platform decisions that span across the product line

Communicating product development status, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to executive leadership

This role requires comfort with ambiguity, the ability to hold both near-term execution rigor and long-term architectural thinking simultaneously, and strong instincts for when to push for elegance versus when to converge. You will operate across many organizations that don't share a single reporting structure, so influence, credibility, and genuine partnership matter as much as technical depth.

Preferred Qualifications

MS or advanced degree in engineering

Experience leading product development for products where acoustic, optical, or sensor performance is central to the user experience

Demonstrated ability to drive system-level architecture decisions that span mechanical, electrical, thermal, and software domains

Familiarity with cost-driven design tradeoffs at scale, including silicon and module selection, BOM optimization, and platform reuse strategies

Experience building or restructuring product development organizations

Track record of effective cross-functional leadership in environments where key partners sit outside your reporting chain

Minimum Qualifications

10+ years experience in mechanical design, 8+ years in engineering management, preferably working experience in consumer electronics

BS in Mechanical Engineering or related field

Extensive experience in product development engineering, with significant time spent in engineering leadership roles, preferably in consumer electronics

Track record of shipping high-volume, tightly integrated electromechanical products from concept through mass production

Deep understanding of mechanical engineering fundamentals: materials, thermal management, structural analysis, tolerance systems, and manufacturing processes (injection molding, die casting, machining, stamping, extrusion, etc.)

Strong design validation background: FEA, tolerance analysis, failure analysis, DOE, prototype-driven development

Experience managing teams across multiple simultaneous programs at different lifecycle stages