Engineering Program Manager - Ad Platforms

- Lead cross-functional engineering programs and deliver optimally, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.- Work closely with leadership to form strategic plans and contribute towards overall technology direction. This includes technical debt assessment, strategy, and tracking.- Partner with EPM, engineering, and product teams to identify product and technical requirements, and lead through project dependencies and delivery milestones.- Negotiate the sequencing and timing of delivery with technology leadership, product, and engineering teams. Ability to assess delivery risks, propose and take action on mitigations, and raise to the technology leadership team if needed- Apply knowledge of our architectures to plan, drive, and deliver key initiatives.- Project planning, tracking and reporting using suitable methodologies.- Develop and implement communication strategies for advising our organization of critical updates, their timing, impacts, and success and failure- Understand and articulate delivery impact to stakeholders such as end consumers, the business, and other Apple teams- Coach and mentor teams in Agile methodologies, while tailoring the specifics to work well with Apple s ecosystem, toolsets, and methods

• Bachelors, Masters, or equivalent professional experience in Computer Science, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, or related field
• Minimum of 14 years of project experiences with scalable platforms and resilient architectures.
• Minimum of 7+ years of experiences in roles such as a Technical Project Manager, Technical Product Owner, Engineering Manager, and/or Solution Architect in a relevant field.
• Prior experience with Agile projects and programs
• Experience in a cross-functional role

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with low latency architecture, cloud architecture, and/or machine learning platforms is strongly preferred
• Passionate about project delivery and being outcomes-oriented
• Clear and effective communicator, and enjoys collaborative problem solving