Product Manager, watchOS

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple great ideas have a way of becoming great products services and customer experiences very quickly. When you bring passion dedication teamwork and a sense of ownership to your job theres no telling what you can accomplish! nnAs a member of our Worldwide Product Marketing group youll represent the customer throughout a products journey from concept through development and launch. Youll develop and apply insights to help infuse innovative features into our product development process. Together with our team youll work to craft groundbreaking ideas into tangible products that excite the world. At Apple we combine product management and product marketing responsibilities into a single cross-functional Product Management role that collaborates with design engineering finance legal marketing communications public relations market research and sales for maximum impact across the organization.

We are looking for a highly motivated Product Manager to join the Worldwide Product Marketing team for watchOS. This individual will be responsible for leading the messaging launch deliverables and release strategy for watchOS along with helping to define new features that will shape the future of Apple Watch. nnAre you passionate about creating product experiences that impact the well-being of millions of customers and ready to join an amazing team Then we want to hear from you!

Drive the strategy and roadmap for and communicate user needs and perspectives to inspire the broader organization and help conceptualize new products and insights by using data to inform product decisions from competitive analysis and voice of the customer in a global cross-functional team with engineering developer relations public relations and marketing communications through the complete product development product positioning and key product the product in relation to other products and the with marketing communications and PR to develop product launch activities press releases and marketing as the ambassador for your product attending and leading press expert knowledge of competitive and 3rd party global customer developer and partner requirements for future product follow emerging technology consumer and societal trends and make recommendations for how products will fit into those emerging new technologies and make recommendations to pursue in future trade-offs involving features schedule line positioning and lifecycle management.

4 years experience in product marketing and/or product management roles including at least one entire product development cycle from concept to launch with consumer software products and technologies for software -on experience formulating product messaging and creating outbound marketing for both technical and consumer audiences and/or partnering with engineering and design during early research and development to define product strategy and roadmap and with marketing and public relations to craft positioning and define marketing experience within the last 3 years in one or more of the following software segments: smartwatch/wearables/fitness/health software mobile operating systems software integration computer or mobile hardware or to drive communication with key stakeholders the media and public as demonstrated by exceptional presentation skills: developing keynote addresses in an area of subject matter expertise synthesizing information applying critical thinking and maintaining composure under pressure.

Deep understanding of wearable operating systems preferred but will consider mobile/tablet experience as and ability to synthesize technologies into product communication for broad audience including customers media analysts and industry -in-class oral and written communication ability to lead through influence debate and interpersonal skills; thrives in highly collaborative projects effective at building consensus handles high stakes decisions with ease with the ability to cut through self-starter who is dedicated and demonstrates creative and critical thinking and media experience with demonstrated success as a product spokesperson on a national or global and willing to travel and/or MBA.