Product Impact Manager

Apple is seeking a Product Impact Manager for its Services Commerce Product team. This role involves shaping strategic direction, managing product prioritization, and overseeing product valuations. The manager will collaborate with product, business, analytics, and engineering teams to ensure investments deliver maximum business impact across Apple Services like the App Store, Apple TV, and Apple Music. The ideal candidate is a strategic connector and incisive analyst, passionate about product excellence and business performance.

Must Have

• Facilitate strategic project pipeline and maintain a clear list of candidate projects.
• Lead high-impact cross-functional forums to assess project impact and finalize prioritization decisions.
• Establish and facilitate programmatic product valuations in partnership with Analytics.
• Guide and/or develop product valuations approach with modeling assumptions and considerations.
• Develop and optimize systems and processes for sourcing, aggregating, and managing Plan of Record (POR) data.
• Design and develop impactful data visualizations of data trends for business insights.
• Proactively identify and recommend optimizations for product performance and operational process efficiency.
• Proven expertise in product and business strategy with experience in Business Planning and/or Portfolio Analysis.
• Deep grounding of financial concepts and their direct impact on business outcomes.
• Expert proficiency in data manipulation, aggregation, and analysis using tools like Excel, SQL, and CSV files.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights through compelling reports and dashboards (e.g., Tableau, Wrike, AirTable).
• Track record of successfully leading and collaborating with diverse cross-functional teams.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in product planning, product management, strategic product/business evaluation, or a related management/consulting role.
• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Marketing, Digital, Industrial Engineering, Decision Analysis, Data Science, or related field.

Good to Have

• A genuine passion for innovation and exploring new technologies, including AI, to solve complex business problems and enhance productivity.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in product planning, product management, strategic product/business evaluation, or a related management/consulting role.
• MBA with relevant work experience.

Perks & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Range of discounted products and free services
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition, for formal education related to advancing your career
• Opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs
• Eligibility for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
• Option to purchase Apple stock at a discount through Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Eligibility for discretionary bonuses or commission payments
• Relocation assistance

Imagine what you can do here. New ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences. We are seeking an exceptional Product Impact Manager to join our Services Commerce Product team. Our Commerce Product team builds the foundational platform features that empower Services and third-party developers and publishers to monetize content by pricing and selling subscriptions and consumables, offering promotions — ultimately connecting millions of users with incredible experiences. This is a pivotal role where you'll directly shape the strategic direction of our commerce initiatives, ensuring we invest in opportunities that deliver maximum business impact for our partners across beloved services like the App Store, Apple TV, and Apple Music. We are looking for a leader with deep experience working with a diverse group of stakeholders in a large global company, with an appreciation for the complexity and nuances of understanding and representing International market needs. You will be the architect of our Product Prioritization framework - managing Project Intake and Prioritization Initiatives to substantiate and prioritize business requests from cross-functional stakeholders. In parallel, you will manage our Product Valuations Program, partnering with Analytics for a consistent forecasting approach, modeling review and comprehensive performance scorecard to measure investment return over time.

As the Product Impact Manager, you are a strategic connector and an incisive analyst - deeply passionate about product excellence and business performance. You will operate at the intersection of product and business strategy, collaborating with our Commerce Product Managers for the full technical Commerce stack, whilst also working closely with Business stakeholders across the breadth of Services and our International teams, Analytics, Engineering Program Managers, Design and more. Your influence will be tangible, directly shaping how investments are prioritized and growth is driven.

• Pipeline Management: Facilitate the strategic project pipeline, synthesizing priorities from a broad and diverse range of stakeholders to maintain a clear and substantiated list of candidate projects
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Facilitate high-impact cross-functional forums to assess project impact, drive consensus, and finalize prioritization decisions.
• Architecting Valuation Programs: In partnership with Analytics, continue to establish and facilitate a programmatic approach for consistent, credible, and comparable product valuations across Services.
• Strategic Forecasting: Source, Guide and/or Develop the product valuations approach with modeling assumptions and considerations, collaborating with business and product leaders to ensure accuracy and strategic alignment.
• Data Stewardship: Develop and optimize systems and processes for sourcing, aggregating, and managing our Plan of Record (POR) data, ensuring data integrity and accessibility.
• Business Reporting: Design and develop impactful visualization of data trends to facilitate great decisions conversations and business insights
• Optimization and Innovation insights: Proactively identify and recommend optimizations for product performance and operational process efficiency, leveraging insights to drive innovation and/or continuous improvement.

• Strategic Product & Business Insight: Proven expertise in product and business strategy with experience in Business Planning and/or Portfolio Analysis, coupled with the confidence and understanding to proactively recommend impactful optimizations.
• Financial Acuity: Analytical minded with a deep grounding of financial concepts and their direct impact on business outcomes in a forward looking context.
• Data Acumen: Expert proficiency in data manipulation, aggregation, and analysis using tools like Excel, SQL, and CSV files.
• Insightful Visualization: Demonstrated ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights through compelling reports and dashboards (e.g., Tableau, Wrike, AirTable).
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: A track record of successfully leading and collaborating with diverse cross-functional teams, including Product, Engineering Program Management (EPMs), Analytics, and Business teams.
• Experience: 7+ years of progressive experience in product planning, product management, strategic product/business evaluation, or a related management/consulting role.
• Education: Bachelors in Economics, Marketing, Digital, Industrial Engineering, Decision Analysis, Data Science, or related field and/or MBA with relevant work experience

• Innovation Focus: A genuine passion for innovation and exploring new technologies, including AI, to solve complex business problems and enhance productivity.
• Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in product planning, product management, strategic product/business evaluation, or a related management/consulting role.