Strategic Partnerships Lead, Corporate Development

Apples Corporate Development team is seeking a visionary business development leader to drive high-impact strategic partnerships and accelerate innovation. This role will manage select high-profile external relationships while partnering closely with cross-functional teams across Apple including engineering product and operations. The successful candidate will influence Apples long-term strategy by driving transformative partnerships and collaborations providing actionable insights to senior thrive on bold thinking embrace complexity and value individuals who bring passion rigor and creativity to solving the most challenging strategic problems. This is a rare opportunity to influence Apples corporate trajectory and work alongside world-class talent on transformative initiatives.

The Strategic Partnerships function within Corporate Development focuses on identifying structuring and managing high-impact relationships that advance Apples strategic priorities.

Own and manage end-to-end strategic partnerships with high-profile external partners ensuring alignment with Apples long-term business complex commercial agreements licenses and strategic arrangements that maximize both immediate and long-term as the primary interface between external partners and cross-functional Apple teams including engineering product and operations to deliver exceptional analyze and report on partnership performance metrics to guide decision-making and inform future high-visibility initiatives that require balancing multiple stakeholders ambiguity and shifting priorities while achieving measurable business impact.

10 years of experience in business development corporate strategy or technical partnership management with a proven track record of driving project management and organizational skills with meticulous attention to ability to communicate technical and business concepts to senior executives and cross-functional success managing complex external relationships and coordinating across multiple internal ability to lead complex initiatives from strategic analysis to execution in ambiguous and fast-moving record of successfully negotiating complex commercial agreements licenses or strategic degree in business engineering or a related field.

Advanced degree (MBA JD MS PhD) or engineering background with the ability to understand and influence product and technical curiosity for emerging technologies and consumer trends with a passion for innovation.