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Business Operations Engineering Program Manager - PACE

Apple· Hardware
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Cupertino, CA$144.6k - $263.8kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Role within Apple’s Product Analysis and Compliance Engineering (PACE) organization, focusing on Business Operations to drive planning, budgeting, tooling, and cross-functional coordination across a hardware product development portfolio. Emphasizes ANPP alignment, budget and resource planning, data-driven decision making, and opportunities for AI/ML-powered automation to scale BizOps functions.

Responsibilities

  • Leverage Apple New Product Process (ANPP) expertise to align BizOps activities with product program milestones, phase gates, and cross-functional deliverables.
  • Drive test management, allocations, and samples workflows, ensuring accuracy, traceability, and timely fulfillment across programs.
  • Lead and drive budget and finance operations including quarterly/annual planning, reconciliations, and variance reporting in partnership with Finance.
  • Contribute to product roadmap management, tracking key initiatives and ensuring alignment across stakeholder groups.
  • Coordinate meeting oversight while driving agendas, capturing decisions and action items, and ensuring follow-through for key operational forums.
  • Lead or support ES (Engineering Services) resource planning, aligning headcount and contractor needs with program demands.
  • Partner on factory IDL (Indirect Labor) planning, ensuring staffing models reflect production ramp timelines and organizational priorities.
  • Drive tools, data, and systems initiatives, identifying opportunities for automation, improving data quality, and championing scalable solutions.
  • Own or support Environmental compliance claims reporting leadership, ensuring accurate and timely reporting across programs in line with corporate commitments.
  • Manage samples and allocations processes end-to-end, coordinating across engineering, operations, and supply chain teams.
  • Identify and champion AI/ML-driven opportunities to automate repetitive operational workflows, improve data quality, and accelerate decision-making across BizOps functions.
  • Evaluate and integrate AI/ML tools and platforms to enhance reporting, forecasting, and compliance monitoring capabilities.
  • Partner with stakeholder teams to define requirements for intelligent automation solutions that scale across PACE.

Qualifications

  • B.S. in Engineering or Technical degree
  • 3+ years of experience in business operations, program management, or a related function within a hardware product development environment.
  • Demonstrated ANPP (Apple New Product Process) knowledge and hands-on experience navigating product programs through development milestones.
  • Experience with budget management, resource planning, and operational reporting.
  • Strong understanding of Apple's product development lifecycle and cross-functional coordination across engineering, supply chain, and operations.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams with competing priorities and tight timelines.
  • Analytical mindset with experience using data to inform decisions, improve processes, and drive accountability.
  • Demonstrated ability to build and maintain tools, dashboards, and systems that scale with organizational growth.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex operational topics into clear, actionable summaries.
  • Collaborative working style with a track record of building trust and credibility across functions and levels.

Skills

Required:ANPP (Apple New Product Process)Budget managementResource planningData-driven decision makingTooling and automationCross-functional leadership
Nice to have:AI/ML in operations

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments (potential)
  • relocation assistance (potential)
Last updated Jul 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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