Job Details

Role Number: 200660055-0836

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas quickly transform into extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences. Safeguarding our most innovative and disruptive technologies is a core part of Apple’s culture, and the focus of our work in New Product Security. As part of our team, you will play a vital role in shaping the secrecy and security solutions that empower teams across the company to maintain confidentiality while driving progress. We are seeking a passionate, dedicated team member to oversee secrecy management for Announce protection. With your expertise, there’s no telling how much you could achieve.

We are seeking a technical expert to help safeguard Apple’s most innovative and disruptive technologies. In this vital role, you will shape the secrecy and security solutions that empower teams across the company to maintain strict confidentiality while driving technological progress. Bringing your functional expertise and passion to the New Product Security (NPS) team, you will oversee the program management of a complex, global hardware and software protection portfolio.

Description

As a Secrecy Program Manager, you will own the strategy and execution that allows Apple to announce our greatest products and features on our own terms. This role requires proven leadership, exceptional communication, and a highly collaborative approach to preventing leaks during New Product Introductions (NPI).

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.

• 15+ years of experience in project management or operations, with a proven track record of leading global cross-functional teams to deliver initiatives on time.

• 8+ years of specialized experience managing the security and confidentiality of New Product Introductions (NPI).

• Ability to overcome setbacks by seamlessly adapting methods, priorities, and plans to keep projects on track.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to craft and deliver compelling presentations to Senior and Executive Leadership.

• Strong autonomy, with the ability to execute complex tasks and make decisions with minimal outside direction or supervision.

Preferred Qualifications

• Practical understanding of security processes and risk frameworks, gained through roles in operations risk management, physical security, information security, law enforcement, intelligence, or inventory management and loss prevention.

• Experience working within a multinational company, specifically handling global manufacturing operations and related issues.

• History of successful, cross-functional engagement with advanced technology development teams.

• Proven ability to manage complex, international, large-scale, and time-critical projects that involve multiple stakeholders and conflicting priorities.

• Strong negotiation skills with the ability to navigate both the big picture strategic vision and the granular details.

• Excellent multitasking and prioritization skills, with the capacity to thrive in a dynamic and ambiguous environment.

• Highly self-motivated and proactive, demonstrating critical thinking, creative problem-solving skills, and a keen attention to detail.

• Strong aptitude for technical solutions, with the ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies.

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) .