Product Manager, watchOS

Product Manager, watchOS

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. When you bring passion, dedication, teamwork, and a sense of ownership to your job, there's no telling what you can accomplish! As a member of our Worldwide Product Marketing group, you'll represent the customer throughout a product's journey from concept through development and launch. You'll develop and apply insights to help infuse innovative features into our product development process. Together with our team, you'll work to craft groundbreaking ideas into tangible products that excite the world. At Apple, we combine product management and product marketing responsibilities into a single, cross-functional Product Management role that collaborates with design, engineering, finance, legal, marketing communications, public relations, market research, and sales for maximum impact across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Drive the strategy and roadmap for watchOS.
• Understand and communicate user needs and perspectives to inspire the broader organization, and help conceptualize new products and features.
• Distill insights by using data to inform product decisions from competitive analysis, and voice of the customer insights.
• Work in a global cross-functional team with engineering, developer relations, public relations, and marketing communications through the complete product development cycle.
• Define product positioning and key product messages.
• Position the product in relation to other products and the competition.
• Work with marketing communications and PR to develop product launch activities, press releases, and marketing materials.
• Serve as the ambassador for your product attending and leading press briefings.
• Possess expert knowledge of competitive and 3rd party products.
• Collect global customer, developer, and partner requirements for future product development.
• Closely follow emerging technology, consumer, and societal trends and make recommendations for how products will fit into those emerging trends.
• Evaluate new technologies and make recommendations to pursue in future products.
• Manage trade-offs involving features, schedule, line positioning, and lifecycle management.

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in product marketing and/or product management roles, including at least one entire product development cycle from concept to launch with consumer software products and technologies for software platforms.
• Hands-on experience formulating product messaging and creating outbound marketing for both technical and consumer audiences, and/or partnering with engineering and design during early research and development to define product strategy and roadmap, and with marketing and public relations to craft positioning, and define marketing activities.
• Recent experience within the last 3 years in one or more of the following software segments: smartwatch/wearables/fitness/health software, mobile operating systems, software integration, computer or mobile hardware, or adjacent.
• Ability to drive communication with key stakeholders, the media, and public, as demonstrated by exceptional presentation skills: developing keynote addresses in an area of subject matter expertise, synthesizing information, applying critical thinking and maintaining composure under pressure.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of wearable operating systems preferred but will consider mobile/tablet experience as well.
• Experience and ability to synthesize technologies into product communication for broad audience including customers, media, analysts, and industry specialists.
• Best-in-class oral and written communication skills.
• Strong ability to lead through influence, debate and storytelling.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills; thrives in highly collaborative projects, effective at building consensus, handles high stakes decisions with ease, with the ability to cut through ambiguity.
• A self-starter who is dedicated and demonstrates creative and critical thinking abilities.
• Press and media experience with demonstrated success as a product spokesperson on a national or global level.
• Able and willing to travel internationally.
• BS/BA and/or MBA.

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 $144,600 and $263,800, 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 At Apple, we believe accessibility is a fundamental human right. You'll find that idea reflected in everything here in our culture, our benefits and our digital tools. By welcoming as many perspectives as possible, we help you build a career where you feel like you belong. Learn about accessibility in Apple's workplace Learn about reasonable accommodations for job applicants Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.