Business Manager, Product Marketing

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple new ideas have a way of becoming great products services and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and theres no telling what you could Business Management u0026 Finance group within Worldwide Product Marketing (WWPM) creates value for Apple and its customers by playing an integral role in defining and influencing exceptional products while ensuring business and financial goals are met. We serve as the commercial partner to engineering and product teams providing roadmap decision support across a multi-year horizon feature arbitration product line-up scenarios pricing and margin architecture demand forecasting and the business cases behind new categories and new market entry from a AAA gaming platform on Mac to on-device AI. We prepare and present this work across key leadership forums and regularly to Apples leadership team.

We are looking for a multifaceted highly motivated Business Manager to own roadmap decision support end to end.

Financial u0026 Commercial Modeling: Formulate architect build and defend Units-Revenue-Margin models behind pricing and configuration Presentation: Prepare present and defend materials for leadership forums and executive u0026 Insights Readouts: Lead post-launch Connected Insights readouts that integrate sell-through data into strategic insights on product performance and customer -Functional Partnership: Partner directly with Engineering on Apple silicon architecture trade-offs and with Sales on go-to-market motions (e.g. on-device AI) translating deeply technical trade-offs into rigorous commercial Business Cases u0026 Growth Initiatives: Build and lead business cases for new categories and market entry opportunities including the opportunity for a AAA gaming platform on Mac evaluating both the quantitative model and the strategic rationale for Expansion: Collaborate with marketing leaders to evaluate and prioritize international growth initiatives that expand penetration in growth Projects: Manage high-impact strategic initiatives handling extremely confidential information and influencing long-term product direction.

Minimum 5 years of progressive finance experience ideally including product platform or hardware business degree in Finance Economics Engineering or other quantitative field product sense and commercial intuition able to form a perspective on where value is created not only how it is motivated self-starter who drives workstreams independently from end to end with limited oversight consistently delivering recommendations rather than just partner to engineering and product teams comfortable engaging on silicon architecture on-device AI and hardware roadmap in scenario and elasticity-based modeling able to build pricing or configuration models from demand-response assumptions through to margin verbal and written business communication skills with the judgment to architect and present material that stands up in front of senior attention to detail with the ability to maintain the highest level of accuracy while holding the big with quantitative and financial analysis in a fast-paced product context; works comfortably with incomplete information and ambiguity.

MBA or equivalent graduate degreenComfortable writing SQL against a data warehouse (e.g. Snowflake) to retrieve analyze and validate cost and sell-through data behind models rather than relying solely on hand-off extracts.