Job Details

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200647355-0836

Summary

Apple's Audio & Media Technologies group provides the media, graphics, and audio software foundation across all of Apple's innovative products — from iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch to Apple TV+, Apple Music, HomePod, and Mac. The Streaming Media team is looking for an experienced Engineering Program Manager to lead software projects across first- and third-party initiatives that reach hundreds of millions of people every day.

You will bring strong program management fundamentals, excellent communication skills, and a passion for building exceptional technology with a talented, collaborative team. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and partnerships — shaping how media is delivered and experienced across Apple's entire ecosystem.

If you're energized by complexity, thrive in cross-functional environments, and want your work to directly impact how the world streams music, video, and audio — we'd love to hear from you.

Description

We build the technology that enables the modern streaming landscape — the protocols, frameworks, and platform capabilities that power billions of media experiences each day. Along the way, we partner with industry leading third parties to create a powerful, open ecosystem for our users.

As an EPM on this team, you will own and drive:
• Project leadership: Define, own, and maintain project plans for the Streaming Media team using the methodology best suited to each initiative (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches).
• Roadmap development: Build and steward a multi-year roadmap of feature commitments that balances engineering capacity, partner priorities, and product strategy.
• Cross-functional alignment: Drive clear, consistent communication between media engineering teams and their partners across Apple, including platform, product, design, and operations.
• Execution: Lead cross-functional software implementation for supported teams and features, from kickoff through delivery.
• Visibility & reporting: Track and communicate progress, risks, and opportunities to a range of audiences, from engineering leads to senior executives.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of Project / Program Management experience in a high-tech environment

• Experience delivering software features or products to external customers from concept through launch

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting

• Has demonstrated success in leading major, cross-functional software projects

• Ability to quickly develop working knowledge of technical concepts across a wide range of domains

• Experience distilling complex engineering situations into clear, accurate, and actionable summaries

• Technical proficiency in one or more of: audio, video, graphics, or AI/ML

• Demonstrated success in driving software projects through all phases of the SDLC — requirements, design, implementation, testing, and release with multiple shipped products or features as evidence

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with software development for consumer media platforms — mobile, media players, or IPTV

• Familiarity with audio/video streaming technologies including content playback, codec (encoder/decoder) compression, content protection (DRM), and CDN-based video distribution

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 (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .