Security Engineering Program Manager
Job Description
Summary
Security is at the heart of every product Apple ships to customers.
Apple’s Security Engineering & Architecture (SEAR) provides operating system security foundations across all of Apple’s innovative products, including Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. These foundations exist from the lowest levels of the device to the services off-device which work together to protect our users.
As part of our efforts to protect our users, Apple is looking for a world-class Security Engineering Program Manager (EPM) to support a team of security researchers and threat intelligence analysts who work together and cross-functionally to drive efforts to solve security engineering challenges. The success we are striving for is the result of very skilled people working in an environment that cultivates creativity, partnership, and solving old problems in new ways.
At Apple, our mission involves securing and protecting over a billion endpoints; operationalizing security research and threat intelligence into security engineering decisions affecting every layer of the stack; and touching the lives of everyone who interacts with our products. Working for a company whose commitment to user privacy is at the heart of everything it does. Being surrounded by the most creative, passionate, hardworking engineers in the industry. Constantly being challenged to go beyond the norm to find new, innovative ways of solving problems and to make software safer, easier, and more fun to use. You can find all of this in one opportunity, and only at Apple.
You will work with and influence colleagues across Apple to ensure security continues to be at the forefront of our products. You will join a team of project managers committed to and passionate about our security technologies.
Apple’s Security Engineering & Architecture (SEAR) provides operating system security foundations across all of Apple’s innovative products, including Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. These foundations exist from the lowest levels of the device to the services off-device which work together to protect our users.
As part of our efforts to protect our users, Apple is looking for a world-class Security Engineering Program Manager (EPM) to support a team of security researchers and threat intelligence analysts who work together and cross-functionally to drive efforts to solve security engineering challenges. The success we are striving for is the result of very skilled people working in an environment that cultivates creativity, partnership, and solving old problems in new ways.
At Apple, our mission involves securing and protecting over a billion endpoints; operationalizing security research and threat intelligence into security engineering decisions affecting every layer of the stack; and touching the lives of everyone who interacts with our products. Working for a company whose commitment to user privacy is at the heart of everything it does. Being surrounded by the most creative, passionate, hardworking engineers in the industry. Constantly being challenged to go beyond the norm to find new, innovative ways of solving problems and to make software safer, easier, and more fun to use. You can find all of this in one opportunity, and only at Apple.
You will work with and influence colleagues across Apple to ensure security continues to be at the forefront of our products. You will join a team of project managers committed to and passionate about our security technologies.
Description
You will coordinate with cross-functional teams to define, schedule, and execute on plans for security features and mitigations. Also, you will need to quickly identify and resolve inter-dependencies or alignment issues to support the team in partnering with several organizations. You will need to clearly escalate major concerns to appropriate stakeholders. You will be the primary point of contact with partners from multiple divisions to provide threat intelligence insights. Identifying projects risks to ensure the respect of timelines will be key. Communicating the project goals and progress to management, project team and partners will be an important part of this role. Finally, you will be responsible for identifying process improvement areas, for proposing solutions and driving roll-out.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor\'s or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in any Engineering field
- Project management experience in engineering development and/or security
- Extensive experience leading complex and large cross-functional projects
Preferred Qualifications
- Self-motivated and proactive with demonstrated critical thinking capabilities
- Passionate about quality and meticulous attention to detail
- Ability to distill relevant information for the right audience, including via usage of reporting and dashboards
- Proven ability to work with partners in different roles and departments
- Intellectually curious team player with a genuine passion for helping people
- Growth mindset, thrives in fast-paced, changing environment
- Honest about their limitations - it’s ok to not know something as long as you are forthcoming with it and eager to learn more
