Job Details

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200644114-3543

Summary

We are looking for a Principal Technical Strategist to join the Wallet, Payments, and Commerce (WPC) engineering organization. You'll own problems, not projects. The challenges you take on won't come with a brief or a predefined scope — they'll come as open-ended, high-stakes questions that need someone who can independently frame the problem, build conviction, and drive to outcomes. This is a hands-on role embedded within engineering, not an advisory one. You go deep, move fast, and operate autonomously.

Description

The Product Operations team is responsible for helping Apple teams operate and execute effectively. Our team is responsible to take some of the most difficult organizational, business, or technological challenges. In this role, you will partner with senior leadership to develop and execute plans that change the way we do our work.

To do this role successfully, you need to have a deep technical understanding of how our products work, a strong sense of ownership, and fantastic execution skills. You need to be the kind of person who can wear many hats and do whatever it takes to get the job done.

Minimum Qualifications

• Proven ability to operate independently on ambiguous, high-impact problems with minimal direction

• Exceptional learning velocity — you've repeatedly entered unfamiliar domains and become effective faster than expected

• Strong analytical rigor — comfortable with data, systems thinking, and quantitative reasoning; you build your own models and frameworks rather than waiting for them

• Experience working directly within or embedded alongside engineering organizations

• Track record of influencing senior stakeholders and driving decisions across organizational boundaries

• Excellent written and verbal communication; you distill complexity, not add to it

• 12+ years in strategy, product, consulting, technical program management, or similar roles demanding both strategic depth and execution

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in payments, digital wallets, financial services, or commerce platforms

• Familiarity with payment network ecosystems (card networks, issuers, acquirers, tokenization)

• Technical fluency — you can read an architecture diagram, understand engineering tradeoffs, and earn credibility with engineers

• Experience at the intersection of hardware, software, and services

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) .