Developer Publications Engineering Project Manager

Building products that enrich people's lives is in Apple's DNA. Are you passionate about shipping software, coding tools, and inspiring developers? Here's the opportunity to join an amazing team and empower people to build software for Apple platforms. Developer Publications works with Software Engineering teams developing new technologies to create content that teach developers how to build awesome software for Apple's platforms. We are looking for a world-class project manager capable of managing multiple initiatives of varying scale, complexity, and focus. You'll collaborate with an inspiring staff of engineers, authors, designers, and editors. As an experienced engineering project manager, you'll help drive the delivery of world-class teaching materials, such as snippets, sample code, tutorials, API Reference, and Swift Playgrounds. You'll bring the ability to lead projects of all sizes, levels of complexity, secrecy, and play a critical role in their success. You're a great communicator, who is very detail-oriented, proactive, focused, highly motivated, and thinks outside the box. You help teams identify and resolve issues in a constructive and scalable way. You do your best work leading dynamic and innovative projects in a fast-paced environment.

Description

- Collaborate across all phases (design, implementation, testing) of an engineering project and ability to partner multi-functionally

- Build project plans and schedules, track and prioritize tasks across multiple product releases and efforts, simultaneously

- Identify and resolve conflicts, inter-dependencies, and project issues quickly and effectively

- Facilitate requirement gathering and review sessions, program meetings and events

- Evaluate technical risks and drive resolution on technical / engineering issues

- Take part in evolving how projects are defined, managed, and delivered

Preferred Qualifications

Track and prioritize tasks across multiple product releases and efforts simultaneously

Ability to understand priorities, clarify direction, and present clear project status

Ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience

Exhibit a curious approach about new insights and process improvements

Excellent attention to detail

Excellent spoken and written communication

Use tracking and management tools and web databases; when required create web tools for managing and tracking purposes

Build and maintain strong relationships in support of cross-functional work with multiple organizations across Apple

Minimum Qualifications

3 - 5 years of experience in program or product management for software development, or equivalent technical management role

Software release experience managing complex, cross-functional projects; deal well with rapid development cycles and remain flexible and calm in the face of ambiguity

Experience developing and releasing a software product

Experience leading strategic programs combined with the ability to implement at tactical project-level

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

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