Job Description

At Apple, we believe our greatest innovations start with our people. By embracing a diverse team, we spark creativity and curiosity. With talented and motivated individuals, we drive innovation and achieve remarkable results! Together, we collaborate and tackle challenges to create exceptional products for our customers. When we all contribute our unique skills and strengths, we unlock our full potential and accomplish extraordinary things. You won’t just be joining a team—you’ll be making a meaningful impact and achieving incredible milestones together. Here at Apple, your contributions will shape the future, and you’ll have the opportunity to do the best work of your life.

Imagine what you could do here! At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and you will help to create the next generation of the world’s finest electronic devices. As an Engineering Project Manager within the Product Design organization you will be responsible for managing the development and implementation process for one of our iPhone Product Design teams.

You help lead a team of cross-functional partners and external vendors to meet the overall program objectives focusing on mechanical engineering design, development planning and validation cycles of new iPhones. Your ability to deep dive into material fundamentals, creatively solve challenging logistics and technical problems, and collaborate and work well with inter-disciplinary teams are key to delivering the best material solutions and products to our customers.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience collaborating with and facilitating communication across Design, Engineering, Operations teams and our OEM partners to meet very aggressive schedule, and quality goals
Ability to independently drive projects though rapid development cycles and deliver a product
Detailed knowledge of product development processes and strong understanding of manufacturing processes
Understand technical issues and drive them to closure by bringing together key partners for decision making
Provide project status across a wide spectrum of contributors to executive management

Minimum Qualifications

Excellent communication, organizational and leadership skills
Flexible and calm in the face of ambiguity
Ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience
Demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities
Ability to lead multi-functional communication between project teams and external vendors
Drive day-to-day activities to meet overall project objectives
Create and manage project schedules
Provide timely issue resolution and critical path management
BS Mechanical Engineering degree or equivalent
Deep experience in NPI project management and mechanical engineering
Ability to travel/work internationally 25% of year