SDS Privacy Engineering Program Manager

Summary

SDS Privacy team is hiring a Engineering Program Manager for a high-visibility, cross-functional role which sits between SDS and Apple’s Privacy Engineering, Privacy Legal, and Privacy Compliance partners. The SDS Privacy EPM will drive process, platform, and analytic solutions which ensure data collection and data use decisions across SDS to align with SDS requirements and Apple’s privacy standard.

About the role

The EPM on the SDS Privacy team will work with the SDS Privacy Champion to create and maintain programs, processes, and engineering partnerships which keep SDS data practices compliant, efficient, and clearly communicated to SDS and senior leadership.

Responsibilities

The EPM job duties will include onboarding engineering teams to privacy platforms, building out SDS specific procedures and processes, ensuring consistent application of privacy standards across SDS, designing role-based privacy training, running the SDS Privacy awareness program, creating and maintaining the SDS privacy website, and identifying opportunities to streamline and automate manual privacy review and approval chains.

This role will help design the Privacy program from the ground up, serving as the liaison between SDS teams and Apple’s Corporate Privacy Management Office teams, including Privacy Legal, Privacy Engineering, and Privacy Compliance. The PM will act as an SDS Privacy DRI, monitoring for regulatory and policy changes, surfacing relevant developments to SDS leadership, and driving the SDS Privacy response to new requirements.

• Engineering Program Managers on our Strategic Data Solutions (SDS) team deliver.
• They drive decision automation using machine learning that allows Apple to execute w/ greater speed, control, efficiency, and scale.
• They help realize business opportunity and balance operational trade-offs.

They are also expected to lead across multiple functional teams to conceptualize, build, and deliver these automated and forensic decisions which requires continuous problem solving, rapid learning, and an innovative mindset. It also requires a high level of discipline, patience, and self-awareness as you work with many different business and engineering teams.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS or equivalent experience in a relevant field — engineering, math, computer science)
• 3+ years of experience in technical program management or project management
• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships and navigate evolving regulation to produce clear, actionable guidance
• Proven ability to build and sustain partnerships across engineering, legal, and policy stakeholders — influencing outcomes without direct authority
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to adapt to audiences ranging from technical engineers to senior leadership
• Track record of managing multiple concurrent programs with competing priorities and delivering reliably
• Inquisitiveness and a desire for continued self-improvement and development of new skill

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in privacy, data governance, regulatory compliance, or a related field — familiarity with frameworks such as GDPR, PIPL, DMA, DSA, or CCPA is a plus
• Experience in fraud detection, risk management, or financial services data environments
• Experience designing and delivering training or awareness programs for technical audiences
• Self-motivated and energized by the opportunity to cut through ambiguity and build structure on a newly formed team