Director, Product Management Platforms (Apple Store Online)

Imagine what you could do here! The people here at Apple dont just create products - they build the kind of wonder thats revolutionized entire industries. Its the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. At Apple inclusion is a shared responsibility and we work together to foster a culture where everyone belongs and is inspired to do their best work. nnHere on the Apple Store Online team we are responsible for Apples largest store. Our main goal is to deliver a magical personal digital experience where customers can shop buy and learn everything Apple wherever they are. Each customer should feel like they are our only customer and our job is to set the bar for the experience they receive. To run such an extraordinary store it takes extraordinary people and we are looking for someone to help us do extraordinary is looking for a Director of Product to lead inspire and drive innovation from within the Platform team for the Apple Store Online. The Platform team is responsible for the content management asset management product information management and syndication management systems that bring our Apple experiences to life. Together these systems form the foundation of our e-commerce site and directly influence the potential and speed in which we can this role the architectural and platform capability decisions that you make will set the course of our success - for decades to come!

In this role you will be responsible for driving a multi-year re-platform initiative for our e-commerce platform as well as defining new capabilities supporting future customer-facing features being defined by our User Experience product teams. This is a technical role that links business design and engineering to deliver incredible experiences and products to our customers. Youll work cross-functionally with Product Program Product Marketing Merchandising Digital Content Management Engineering Operations and more to ensure complete and end-to-end platform and workflow design. nnYou will navigate the course for us to modernize our architecture challenge old assumptions and bring the flexibility and dynamism that our business teams need to take us into the future - all while keeping our existing multi-billion dollar business running flawlessly. Youll contend with scalability challenges only a few retailers ever get to experience and play a key role in bringing Apples amazing shopping experiences to life.

10-15 years of proven experience in Technical Product Management and/or Engineering Management role with a focus on platform development.n7 years senior management experience building and leading large technical and globally distributed in Computer Science or equivalently technical shaping multi-year strategy and roadmap for e-commerce platforms and connecting the dots across business goals customer needs architectural / technical capabilities into a single big-picture vision and storyline. nDeep hands-on technical fluency; able to create and read complex system designs evaluate trade-offs and engage credibly with engineers on web technologies large-scale distributed/service architectures APIs cloud infrastructure and data understanding of how modern e-commerce platforms are built including microservices payment and checkout systems catalog/inventory services and platform scalability and reliability.

MS in Computer Science or equivalently technical -level skill in building relationships establishing rapport credibility and influence in order to attain results across a large matrixed at building relationships at a senior executive level across business units and geographical skilled at building strong team culture with a focus on team and individual communication and presentation skills with a focus on storytelling and an ability to craft the narrative to influence team with challenging conventions and debating solutions to identify the best possible outcome for experience leading teams in multi-lingual/cultural environment effectively motivating and influencing in a matrix environment including at a senior -directed highly agile with outstanding organizational skills effective in high-pressure environments and an exemplary team strong analytical skills comfortable working in ambiguous environments and adept in use of data and metrics to support assumptions and hard-working leader who can motivate encourage and lead a team through ambiguous situations. Assertive goal driven self-confident and planning running and delivering large multi-year operational projects - from ideation to with emerging technologies like AI Deep Learning and their practical applications in digital commerce applications - personalization search recommendations payments leading an e-commerce re-platform where scale speed and ability to innovate were the focus.