Software Operations R&D Project Manager
Apple Inc
Santa Clara Valley (Cupertino), CA
Job posting number: #7150486 (Ref:apl-200481262)
Posted: May 23, 2023
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Summary
We are seeking a Project Manager to join the team responsible for providing strategic and tactical operations support across the Software organization. This role partners directly with select Software Vice Presidents helping their team execute on strategic priorities consistently and with high quality. The successful candidate will have a proactive approach with the ability to work independently and collaboratively on a wide range of projects. This role is crafted to bring efficiency, process, and standardization to the organization. The ideal candidate would possess strong project management and analytical activity.
Key Qualifications
- Strong interpersonal skills; ability to establish effective relationships and work well with a wide variety of people across functions and levels (executive leadership, recruiting, administrative support, product management, engineering)
- Excellent organization skills and acute attention to detail
- Highly effective written and verbal communication skills
- Experience planning, managing, and executing large-scale events
- Demonstrates an ability to anticipate leadership and organizational needs and changes and course accurate appropriately
- Demonstrates a strong sense of professionalism; able to work autonomously on assignments and handle sensitive and confidential information with integrity and discretion.
Description
Day to Day Responsibilities:
1. Organization-wide communication
- Develop and execute on communication plans for the organization
- Create informational and concise emails, documents, and presentations
- Directly responsible for overall planning and execution of All Hands meetings, including end-to-end logistics, working with the leadership team to design agenda, collect and prepare content, support delivery, and solicit and organize employee feedback to share with leadership
- Build and maintain the organization’s Confluence site
- Produce newsletters, draft announcements and presentations, provide feedback to the teams before shared with the leadership team`
2. Run recurring strategic and operational meetings, such as weekly staff, monthly all-managers to ensure shared context, awareness, alignment
- Assemble and make the agenda available before the meeting begins
- Collect and prepare content
- Capture notes and action items
- Ensure actions are tracked and executed
3. Support Org Leaders
- Track progress on meeting hiring goals
- Coordinate All Hands meetings
- Drive strategic processes: Ensure leadership team is communicating with clarity and transparency to the organization and taking effective action on team culture topics.
- Streamline logistics: In partnership with SWE Ops, coordinate and lead key logistical tasks like space planning, headcount planning and management, talent and compensation planning, budget, etc. Collect and consolidate inputs from organization leaders pertaining to these topic areas. Make recommendations from the organization level point of view.
- Improve culture: Help identify cultural areas for improvement and promote diversified initiatives into action. Could include but is not limited to team surveys, training, communication, transparency, etc.
1. Organization-wide communication
- Develop and execute on communication plans for the organization
- Create informational and concise emails, documents, and presentations
- Directly responsible for overall planning and execution of All Hands meetings, including end-to-end logistics, working with the leadership team to design agenda, collect and prepare content, support delivery, and solicit and organize employee feedback to share with leadership
- Build and maintain the organization’s Confluence site
- Produce newsletters, draft announcements and presentations, provide feedback to the teams before shared with the leadership team`
2. Run recurring strategic and operational meetings, such as weekly staff, monthly all-managers to ensure shared context, awareness, alignment
- Assemble and make the agenda available before the meeting begins
- Collect and prepare content
- Capture notes and action items
- Ensure actions are tracked and executed
3. Support Org Leaders
- Track progress on meeting hiring goals
- Coordinate All Hands meetings
- Drive strategic processes: Ensure leadership team is communicating with clarity and transparency to the organization and taking effective action on team culture topics.
- Streamline logistics: In partnership with SWE Ops, coordinate and lead key logistical tasks like space planning, headcount planning and management, talent and compensation planning, budget, etc. Collect and consolidate inputs from organization leaders pertaining to these topic areas. Make recommendations from the organization level point of view.
- Improve culture: Help identify cultural areas for improvement and promote diversified initiatives into action. Could include but is not limited to team surveys, training, communication, transparency, etc.
Education & Experience
- Bachelors or Masters preferred
Additional Requirements
- - Ability to have productive critical discussions with senior leaders
- - Has a “can-do” demeanor in all situations; no task is too big or too small to handle
- - Ability to act quickly and accurately on time-sensitive projects
Pay & Benefits
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