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Political Compliance Program Specialist

Apple· Corporate Functions
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Cupertino, CA, Washington, DC$140.7k - $211.4kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Apple’s Political Compliance team seeks an organized, quick-thinking professional to ensure interactions with public employees and officials comply with ethics, anti-corruption, lobbying and campaign finance regulations worldwide. The role focuses on implementing scalable compliance processes, managing deadlines, and driving continuous program improvements.

Responsibilities

  • Implement and maintain compliance workflows, tracking systems, and internal controls for lobbying registration and reporting.
  • Track, review and approve events involving public employees and officials to determine permissible hospitality and reportable items using guidelines from legal counsel.
  • Research regulations and policies related to ethics, gifts and conflicts of interest.
  • Clearly communicate approvals and instructions to employees for events following standard processes, and ensure supporting documentation is filed.
  • Draft and send follow-up communications for attendees needing reimbursements or detailed accounting for disclosure purposes, including pulling together expenses from internal stakeholders and drafting letters with instructions.
  • Manage a master compliance calendar, track deadlines, and assist with collecting, reviewing, and compiling information for internal and external reporting.
  • Support vendor and outside counsel relationships necessary to meet deadlines.
  • Review emails in group inbox and route to attorneys as appropriate.
  • Manage internal tools and databases, owning project timelines for compliance initiatives and updates using project management tools.
  • Maintain accurate records and documentation to support compliance needs.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Minimum of three years of experience in a corporate or law firm setting
  • Excellent organizational skills with ability to manage multiple deadlines and priorities
  • Experience building, managing and updating internal team process and reference documents
  • Experience designing and driving programmatic improvements to increase efficiency and automation where appropriate
  • Clear verbal and written communication with high attention to detail
  • Ability to own projects and drive to completion
  • Demonstrated program or project management experience including planning, execution, and stakeholder coordination
  • Ability to work independently and with various business teams to build relationships
  • Technical understanding/abilities preferred to assess internal and external tools and capabilities

Skills

Required:Program managementRegulatory awareness (ethics, gifts, conflicts of interest)Communication (verbal and written)Project management tools

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational expense reimbursement including tuition
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation eligibility
  • Employee stock programs including discretionary RSU awards and potential Stock Purchase Plan participation
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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