Technical Product Manager Services Pricing Platform

Imagine what you can do here! At Apple great ideas have a way of becoming great products services and customer experiences very quickly. The Apple Services Engineering team is one of the most exciting examples of Apples long-held passion for combining art and technology these are the people who power the App Store Apple Music Apple TV Apple Arcade iCloud Fitness News Books and Podcasts. And they do it on a massive scale: 2.5 billion active devices 850 million weekly active users on the App Store alone across 175 looking for a Technical Product Manager to help design and enhance the platform that governs the availability of over 500 million digital SKUs and calculates content provider payouts. Since 2008 Apple has paid more than $550 billion to App Store developers alone. Youll partner with product engineering business operations legal tax and finance to translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications. Youll move between long-term platform investments and near-term business initiatives. Youll ensure the features you launch comply with the legal regulatory tax and business requirements that come with operating globally work that has grown more central each year as digital marketplace regulation thrive in this role if: You enjoy solving hard problems ask questions before assuming and build trust across functions. You embrace change and adapt as new information surfaces. You obsess over details but know when to seek help. You respect expertise and arent afraid to share your own. You look for opportunities to build capabilities once and scale them across many lines of business. You hold a high bar for your work and invest in relationships that help you achieve more than you could alone.

The Technical Product Management team for the Services Pricing Platform is responsible for translating pricing-related business ideas and strategies into tangible products and features. This role requires engaging deeply with cross-functional stakeholders (such as engineering QA business operations legal compliance and finance) to enhance and develop technical capabilities including authoring detailed specification documents for engineering development. Examples from the past few years include developing new business models involving complex calculations based on contracts enhancing content availability rules to comply with local laws and regulations and modernizing the platform to make it more configurable and scalable.

Author detailed functional requirements specification documents for engineering and QAnDesign and refine requirements that scale for changing environments (e.g. regulatory changes adoption by new lines of business geographic expansions)nFacilitate working sessions that drive technical design decisions across product engineering and partner teamsnDocument key decisions design rationale and architectural choices so future work can build on them rather than relitigate themnLead projects through to launch including review of system implementations and user acceptance testingnRepresent the team as subject matter expert in cross-functional scoping and design discussions drawing on deep knowledge of the pricing technical stacknPartner with legal and compliance to ensure the system adheres to corporate policies regulations contractual arrangements and effective controls

Communicate complex ideas through simple incisive written and verbal communication especially translating technical concepts for non-technical audiencesnAdvanced analytical rigor developed through prior product consulting analytics engineering or related work with technical or quantitative scopenWorking knowledge of databases data structures and APIs (read code; not write production code)nExperience working cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders with varying levels of technical understandingn4 years in technical product/program management engineering consulting or related role with technical scopenBachelors or Masters in an Engineering discipline Information Systems or Computer Science OR an MBA with engineering/quantitative background OR equivalent experience

Problem structuring experience with ability to break down concepts and identify what truly matters per business objectivesnExperience designing data models or schemasnDemonstrated ability to facilitate cross-functional design discussions and drive high quality decisionsnFamiliarity with software development lifecycle especially how requirements flow into engineering implementation testing and releasenExperience with pricing systems marketplace dynamics or commerce platformsnExperience scaling features across multiple lines of business or geographiesnBackground working on regulatory or compliance-driven product changesnAI fluency using AI tools to accelerate analysis prototyping or specification work