Job Details

Senior Portfolio Strategy PM

San Diego, California, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Sep 24, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200622829-3543

The Software Engineering (SWE) Operations & Planning team is looking for a Senior Portfolio Strategy Program Manager to join our Space and Lab Planning team. Responsible for driving long-term real estate planning for Software Engineering globally by developing and maintaining headcount projections by market. This presents an excellent opportunity for an independent and self-motivated individual to demonstrate their business acumen, critical thinking, collaboration and relationship-building skills, and execution prowess to make meaningful impact.

You will be a key point of contact with Apple’s central Space Planning function, advocating for Software Engineering’s needs across work spaces, labs, and amenity space requests. You will tasked with creating long-term occupancy planning strategies and leverage analytics to support executive-level reporting and strategic real estate portfolio decisions. You will work cross functionally with Places, senior leadership, and engineering leads to deliver world class customer support to our teams.

You will also be tasked with providing actionable data visualizations and insights to our internal customers by partnering with the Tools & Insights team to develop dashboards and reports to help drive decisions for space forecasting, allocation and planning.

The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated and proactive problem solver who can think strategically and and have a customer focused mindset. We are looking for someone who possesses a high level of integrity, creativity, initiative, accountability, communication and interpersonal skills, with a commitment to teamwork and excellence. You are comfortable with ambiguity in a fast paced environment.

Description

Primary responsibilities include:

• Develop and implement work space strategies aligned to staffing trends and objectives of the organization
• Develop scenario modeling to analyze the impact of headcount changes on markets and recommend updated plans and rebalance as needed
• Evaluate space utilization and develop strategies to optimize portfolio; articulate occupancy risks and propose mitigation strategies
• Drive data management strategy and lead development of space planning reporting tools and develop data visualizations that will help to quickly and thoroughly answer commonly asked questions about space and space allocation
• Partner with key business and cross-functional stakeholders to define and execute plans for securing and allocating space to enable world-class work environments.
• Support business units in the development of more precise future headcount and speciality space needs
• Identify, document, and drive policy and process improvement initiatives to create efficiencies and improve transparency.
• Consolidate and validate data from multiple sources to drive intelligent decision making.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong leadership and relationship building skills; proven ability to partner and drive results with cross-functional teams.

• Excellent communication skills and an aptitude for blending qualitative and quantitative data into executive level presentations and messaging.

• Ability to understand business processes and work with large data sets to derive key insights to create space forecast models; Experience developing and working with Tableau dashboards, ability to create clear and concise visualizations

• Proficiency with Excel, Numbers, and Keynote, in addition to a suite of enterprise tools including Tableau and Tririga application suite.

• 5 to 10 years of relevant work experience

• Bachelors Degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Well-organized, self-starter that is able to balance multiple projects with minimal supervision in a dynamic environment.

• Ability to discern and manage business requirements and projects that have competing priorities.

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 $139,200 and $275,900, 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. (https://www.apple.com/careers/us/benefits.html)

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

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) .

Apple will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation.

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