Operations Product Development - Product Manager
- Location
- Cupertino · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Lead / Staff
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Listed
- 14 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- Product cost management across hardware components and assemblies
- Cost modeling and cost trade-off analysis
- Understanding of consumer electronics technologies
- Supply chain and manufacturing knowledge
- Cross-functional alignment and decision influence
Also useful
- Interpersonal and relationship building
- Communication skills
- Self-starter with strong ownership
- Data-centric problem solving
- Multi-project management
Summary
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Work at the forefront of innovation and bring new products and services to life.
About the role
As an Operations Product Development (OPD) Product Manager you will engage with the Apple Engineering, Product Design, Operations, Procurement, Marketing, and Planning teams to shape product and roadmap definition as an advocate for cost & supply chain, while enabling feature-rich, best-in-class hardware products.
In this role you will help guide the Operations/Procurement teams to influence upcoming product features & roadmaps, identify and address gaps to success, and serve as a “one stop shop” to advise the broader organization on all things cost and supply chain.
This position requires very strong interpersonal and relationship building skills with the ability to effectively influence peers and management, as well as a solid understanding of consumer electronics architecture, supply chains, and manufacturing cost structures. Ideal candidates will have a natural curiosity about how things work and why.
Responsibilities
- Understand key consumer electronic technologies to be able to identify cost trade-offs that challenge design, feature, and supply chain constraints
- Perform detailed cost modeling and identify/develop opportunities for both material and non-material line items
- Manage product cost to achieve pricing and margin targets; set individual cost targets for each component/module
- Assist Procurement in deriving accurate closest to the pin should costs
- Support product integration & feasibility scenarios, ROI analyses, supply chain optimization investigations, environmental implication assessments, etc.
- Develop the Supplier Plan of Record for each new product, focusing on strategic supply chain initiatives, and get buy-in from cross-functional stakeholders
- Hold regular executive forums to review/discuss trending cost vs targets and drive opportunities for cost & design optimization
Minimum Qualifications
- 7+ years of relevant experience in Operations, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Supply Chain or related area
- BS/BA in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain or a related field
- Demonstrated a detailed understanding of product cost management across hardware components and assemblies
- Proven ability to drive cross-functional alignment and influence decisions at all levels of the organization
Preferred Qualifications
- Exceptional interpersonal & communication skills
- Self-starter with strong sense of ownership
- Ability to resolve ambiguity through a creative yet data-centric approach to program management/decision making
- Strong analytical skills and ability to maintain attention to detail within big picture thinking
- Experience managing multiple projects with competing priorities
From Apple's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 27, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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