Summary
Posted:
Nov 07, 2025
Weekly Hours:
40
Role Number:
200631017-0836
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Manufacturing AI team. You will be responsible for the product strategy, roadmap, and execution to streamline, analyze, and drive decisions. This means creating intuitive experiences that leverage the full potential of a Frontier LLM while being simple, approachable and incredibly powerful.
We work cross-functionally and you will partner daily with our AI engineers, designers, mechanical engineers, and stakeholders to build impactful software products, specifically unlocking new Agentic experiences. We believe in going deep on user research and data analysis to decide where we would should go next with our products, we believe in delivering iterative features quickly and continuously improving our products and processes, and we are a strong design and product-led organization. We love talking to and working with our users every day to enable them to do their best work.
We want someone that has experience taking an idea from the whiteboard to production and then scale it. You are going to get to do that again here.
Description
The Manufacturing Design team enables the mass production of Apple's entire product line from iPhones, iPads and MacBooks to the Mac Pro, AppleTV, Apple Watch and Vision Pro. Part of the magic that makes all of this possible is a robust set of applications and systems designed and developed by Apple that support the production of a product from prototype to announcement and beyond.
The applications we build are used daily by the people at Apple that design our products along with those that figure out how to make them at scale. This includes; Manufacturing Design Engineers, Product Designers, Mechanical Engineers, Quality Engineers, Supply Chain Managers, along with our Suppliers. We work closely with them to design and architect the best solutions for the challenges faced when making the highest quality hardware products.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of product management experience, preferably building complex tools and systems
- 8+ years experience working with software product teams, either in a product role, or design or engineering
- Professional experience building AI products using MCP and Agents
- Product-first mindset, and the demonstrated ability to define and build intentional product processes that are shared cross-functionally
- Demonstrated ability to craft and effectively communicate a product vision, strategy, and roadmap, and the ability to inspire the product team to execute upon these artifacts
- Demonstrated use of user research, usability studies, analytics and data to drive business decisions and prioritize, as well as the ability to distill this work quickly into impactful decisions that move the team and product forward
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with software engineers and designers, engage in thoughtful and respectful debate, and prioritize among competing needs
- Experience with manufacturing processes, consumer product design, and mechanical engineering is not required - but you must have an interest in learning about these areas and becoming deeply familiar with this domain
Preferred Qualifications
- Craft and set the product vision & strategy
- Create use cases and user stories and communicate them effectively to both design and software engineering
- Build and prioritize an ambitious but iterative roadmap that balances user needs with business and stakeholder priorities, as well as team needs
- Ship experiences that are delightful to our users
- Deeply understand and empathize with our users’ needs and pain points
- Present and communicate product decisions, roadmaps, and long-term goals to the product team, stakeholder groups, and organizational leadership
Pay & Benefits
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $212,000 and $318,400, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.
