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Program Manager (Strategic Programs Privacy Liaison)

Apple· Operations and Supply Chain
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Sunnyvale, CA$140.7k - $211.4kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Program Manager to bridge the PMO, Privacy Legal team, and cross-functional partners to deliver global data privacy compliance initiatives. Focus on translating regulatory requirements into actionable plans, managing scope, schedule, and alignment across a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary liaison with Privacy Legal and cross-functional leadership to align and maintain tight scope control, timelines, critical path dependencies, surfacing ambiguity and facilitating timely resolution of scope, requirements, and compliance decisions.
  • Integrate business needs with future systems architecture, operational model design, and organizational change management.
  • Translate regulatory and legal requirements into clear, actionable business, system, and process requirements for engineering and functional teams.
  • Maintain program controls and dependencies, escalate risks, and step into critical delivery needs to ensure continuity and on-time execution, while keeping compliance decisions with Privacy Legal.
  • Drive alignment across teams on scope, schedule, resources, dependencies, and critical compliance milestones.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience driving alignment on scope, schedule, and resources commitments across large, matrixed organizations, ideally within a highly regulated, compliance-driven environment.
  • 3+ years of data privacy regulations (e.g. GDPR, PIPL, CCPA).
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Law, or related field.
  • Experience integrating business transformation with systems architecture, operating model design, and organizational change management.
  • Comfortable operating in high-ambiguity environments; able to bring structure and clarity.
  • Ability to operate independently, influence without authority, and drive cross-functional teams to decisions with speed and precision.
  • Collaborative, service-oriented mindset with a focus on fast, lasting decisions.
  • Knowledge of data privacy regulations (e.g. GDPR, PIPL, CCPA) and their operational/system implications; ability to translate into actionable requirements.
  • Proven ability to keep scope, timeline, and dependencies on track with Legal/Privacy decision-making.
  • Exceptional verbal, written, and executive presentation communication skills.

Skills

Required:Program managementStakeholder managementRegulatory translation
Nice to have:Change management

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • educational expense reimbursement (tuition)
  • discretionary bonuses or commission potential and relocation eligibility
  • Apple shareholder opportunities through stock programs
Last updated Aug 28, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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