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Engineering Program Manager, Speech Understanding/Generation

Santa Clara, California, United States

Software and Services

Summary

Posted: Jul 22, 2025

Role Number: 200613536

At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Do you enjoy taking on challenges that create a positive impact for millions of people?

The Speech Recognition & Dictation team at Apple is building groundbreaking technology and new user experiences, and we need a senior technical program manager to help lead the charge!

We’re looking for a senior technical program manager with a proven track record of developing and maintaining complex software platforms, tools, and processes that help deliver new end-to-end consumer experiences.

Description

You will be the program manager responsible for supporting Apple’s speech recognition and text-to-speech technologies. You work closely with both the Speech engineering teams and partners who will adopt this technology for their own internal and external use cases. You will act as the subject matter expert, gathering requirements and slotting these needs into the overall speech recognition roadmap. You will be responsible for leading partner adoption and ensuring the success of the partner team.

Plan: Create and lead project timelines with clear dependencies, a critical path, and a systematic methodology to communicate status effectively. Handle risks and mitigations, and re-plan as events warrant. Drive alignment across the organization and between teams.

Problem-solve: Proactively identify issues and solutions, and marshal the necessary resources to address and resolve. Coordinate with teams to identify issues, prioritize tasks, and track risks to schedule and product quality, including cross-functional dependencies.

Communicate: Provide clear, timely, and objective updates, including regular program status reports and notifications of critical issues as needed, to the executive team.

Coordinate: Coordinate discussions and break down complex issues into manageable discussion topics to drive alignment between engineering and design, with support from the project team, while maintaining a focus on teamwork and collaboration.

Execute: Drive on-time delivery and deployment, identifying development and feasibility needs, establishing achievements for checkpoints and status updates.

Continuously Improve: Reflect on how the team operates, propose new ways to work, and implement them to enhance the rate at which the team delivers value to customers.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software project or program management for consumer products

• Experience with software powered by statistical learning (machine learning and/or deep learning)

• Excellent project management skills, including project structuring and leading multiple work streams cross-functionally

• Have personally orchestrated the delivery of software products requiring large organizations (50+) to execute

• Thorough understanding of testing, build and release processes for complex software

• BS/MS/PhD with a focus in CS/CE/EE or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong analytical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving skills

• Proficiency in Agile, SDLC development processes

• Strong leadership skills, including coaching, team-building, conflict resolution, and management

• Superior group facilitation, interviewing, and influence skills

• Ability to communicate abstract ideas clearly and independently handle complex project objectives

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 $172,100 and $258,600, 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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