Director of Product, App Store Services
Apple
Product
Cupertino, CA, USA
Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Key Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience in a senior role leading product development for personalized discovery experiences in consumer digital services, content platforms, or mobile e-commerce that brought delight to customers; Experience in social gaming a plus
- Exceptional interpersonal skills; proven track record of successfully influencing and negotiating with partners and working with many groups to achieve goals; thrives in highly collaborative projects, handles high stakes decisions with ease, and ability to navigate ambiguity
- Experience engaging effectively with high-level executives, including delivering presentations, gaining support for initiatives, and advocating your point of view
- Experience managing and professionally developing a team, overseeing a portfolio of multi-year projects toward completion
- Ability to operate seamlessly between highly detailed and technical situations as well as strategic business situations
- Strong analytical skills, ability to identify key opportunities and measure impact to drive improved customer experiences
- Extraordinary oral and written communication skills; ability to become fluent in technical concepts and explain to executives and non-technical partners
- Very strong storytelling and Keynote presentation skills
Description
- Deliver on a strong portfolio of features that improve and grow customer app discovery and engagement and drive business impact for the App Store
- Define and develop consensus on product vision, strategy, and ongoing optimization for the storefront features, Apple Arcade, and Game Center across cross-functional teams globally
- Advance the faithful implementation of the product vision and strategy, from managing the feature definition process, to crafting how it’s unveiled to the public
- Successfully advocate for the prioritization of impactful features on the engineering roadmap and secure key resource commitments among cross functional teams
- Interact with company executives to build product vision for new features, report on improvements to the customer experience over time, and provide domain expertise
- Have expert knowledge of the field, including competitive and 3rd party products and competitor strategy, including privacy-focused product approaches. Develop a corporate development strategy and suggest M&A activity as needed
Education & Experience
BS degree or equivalent experience, JD or MS/MBA a plus