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Program Manager, Strategic Foresight and Trend Intelligence

Apple· Corporate Functions / Apple Store Online
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Cupertino, CA$178.8k - $268.4kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Lead strategic foresight and trend intelligence across e-commerce, digital commerce, and customer care for Apple Store Online, translating signals into long-range strategies that influence executive decision-making and shape the customer experience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategic foresight and trend intelligence across e-commerce, digital commerce, and customer care, translating early signals into long-range business strategies that influence executive decision-making.
  • Synthesize internal and external data across structured and varied customer scenarios to uncover actionable insights.
  • Interpret customer contact data to identify trends, needs, and opportunities within Apple customer care.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and Product Managers to translate insights into solutions.
  • Contribute to the design of scalable solutions that enable specialists to focus on high-value, human-centered customer interactions.
  • Shift fluidly across data analysis, stakeholder communication, and solution design, adapting as priorities evolve.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in strategic planning, market intelligence, digital commerce, customer experience, or a related field.
  • Background in detecting signals and emerging patterns across technology, consumer behavior, and market shifts to distinguish enduring strategic forces.
  • Engagement with the evolving e-commerce landscape, including next generation shopping experiences, payment ecosystems, AI-driven personalization, and the convergence of physical and digital Retail.
  • Analysis of transformational shifts in customer service and experience, including conversational AI, autonomous support, hyper-personalization, and changing expectations across generational cohorts.
  • Application of structured foresight frameworks including scenario planning, horizon scanning, and futures mapping to translate ambiguous trend data into actionable long-range business strategies.
  • Preparation of executive briefings and board-level recommendations that distill complex, long-horizon thinking to directly influence business planning cycles.
  • Evaluation of the startup ecosystem, academic research, regulatory environments, and emerging technology vendors to surface early signals that could reshape competitive dynamics in e-commerce and customer care.
  • Ability to scan adjacent industries such as fintech, health tech, logistics, and social platforms for transferable disruptions and synthesize insights into coherent narratives that challenge conventional assumptions.
  • Experience working within or advising large-scale retail, technology, or platform companies navigating significant market disruption.
  • Familiarity with AI and machine learning applications as they relate to commerce, personalization, and customer engagement.
  • Exposure to venture capital, accelerator, or innovation scouting environments with a developed network across the emerging technology ecosystem.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt quickly to shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Experience leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams to achieve strategic business goals.

Skills

Required:Stakeholder communicationData analysisScenario planning / futures mapping

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Educational expense reimbursement (tuition)
  • Discretionary bonuses or commission payments (possible)
  • Relocation assistance (possible)
  • Employee stock programs (RSUs, stock purchase plan)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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