Security Engineering Program Manager

Security is at the heart of every product Apple ships to customers.

Apple's Security Engineering & Architecture (SEAR) provides operating system security foundations across all of Apple's innovative products, including Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. These foundations exist from the lowest levels of the device to the services off-device which work together to protect our users.

Are you passionate about driving forward security features and mitigations that ship to hundreds of millions of users? We are looking for an individual with strong communication, program management skills and, ideally, a knowledge of security to support a team developing industry-leading defenses across all Apple product lines.

You will work with and influence colleagues across Apple to ensure security continues to be at the forefront of our products. You will join a team of project managers committed to and passionate about our security technologies.

Description

You will coordinate with cross-functional teams to define, schedule, and execute on plans for security features and mitigations. Also, you will need to quickly identify and resolve inter-dependencies or alignment issues to support the team in partnering with several organizations. You will need to clearly escalate major concerns to appropriate stakeholders. You will be the primary point of contact with partners from multiple divisions to define security features, schedules and deliverables. Identifying projects risks to ensure the respect of timelines will be key. Communicating the project goals and progress to management, project team and partners will be an important part of this role. Finally, you will be responsible for identifying process improvement areas, for proposing solutions and driving roll-out.

Preferred Qualifications

Self-motivated and proactive with demonstrated critical thinking capabilities

Passionate about quality and meticulous attention to detail

Ability to distill relevant information for the right audience, including via usage of reporting and dashboards

Proven ability to work with partners in different roles and departments

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree or equivalent experience in any Engineering field

Project management experience in engineering development and/or security

Extensive experience leading complex and large cross-functional projects

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