Job Description
Imagine what you could do here. The people here at Apple don’t just create products — they create the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it!
Apple's WW Channel Strategy & Operations (CSO) organization focuses on developing and deploying worldwide sales programs and best practices to deliver an extraordinary customer experience in the channel and drive Apple Channel sales. With deep functional expertise in digital, physical, and people enablement spaces, our WW CSO team closely collaborates with many cross-functional groups at world-wide and regional levels.
We are seeking a highly experienced Digital Product Data Manager to join our Worldwide CSO Technology team. In this role, you will work with product managers to drive automation across key digital content processes and serve as a key resource for short-term and long-term deliverables for our content technology roadmap. You will drive step-by-step operational data onboarding, governance, and automation enhancements during Apple's new product introduction (NPI) events. You will partner cross-functionally to deliver multi-year digital content sourcing, enhancement, and distribution. You will also explore generative AI digital content workflow tools and capabilities to support digital content automation and partner with cross-functional AI/ML engineering teams to implement these capabilities. Through your passion and influence, you will play a critical part in driving our operational excellence, and technology vision forward for years to come.
Description
In this role, you will:
- Work with large, unstructured digital content data sets, channel partner Apple assortment, product taxonomies, videos, images, product descriptions, and more to reduce cross-functional team member manual digital content publishing efforts.
- Build automation scripts to help publishing teams publish more accurate, complete digital content faster during Apple's NPI events.
- Analyze, propose, build, and scale limited and broader automation scripting tools and capabilities to support Apple publishers.
- Optimize the content distribution workflow and utilize automation scripts, machine learning models etc to enable process improvements.
- Support, track, and ensure implementation and publishing of data/content within time sensitive workflows.
- Partner with cross-functional teams such as Marcom, Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), Product Marketing and Engineering on developing new solutions to improve digital content distribution.
Minimum Qualifications
- 6+ years of related industry experience
- Experience onboarding, and managing Product Information Management (PIM) data
- Demonstrated ability in back-end programming with Python, JavaScript, and SQL
- Experience utilizing REST APIs
- Proficiency in driving automation and scalability to processes and tools; Experience building automation tools, utilities for data pipelines, cleansing, and transformation
- Experience managing content meta-data and asset performance across a global digital channel
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Outstanding problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, data science, or digital content management
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Broad experience defining requirements and integrations tied to various content tools, e.g. PIM, DAM, CMS, Service provider/syndication is highly desirable
- Deep expertise in building digital content automation workflows and connecting product information management systems (PIM), content management systems (CMS), and digital asset management systems (DAM) such as Adobe, Content Stack, and/or Stibo
- Background working with annotated data and/or leveraging generative AI in products is a plus
- Prior experience in SDLC project management and analysis including scoping / timeline management, documenting use cases, process flows/swim lane diagrams, requirements, user acceptance testing, change management, etc.
- Master’s Degree is a plus
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
- At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $165,500 and $248,700, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits. Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
- Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
In this role, you will:
- Work with large, unstructured digital content data sets, channel partner Apple assortment, product taxonomies, videos, images, product descriptions, and more to reduce cross-functional team member manual digital content publishing efforts.
- Build automation scripts to help publishing teams publish more accurate, complete digital content faster during Apple's NPI events.
- Analyze, propose, build, and scale limited and broader automation scripting tools and capabilities to support Apple publishers.
- Optimize the content distribution workflow and utilize automation scripts, machine learning models etc to enable process improvements.
- Support, track, and ensure implementation and publishing of data/content within time sensitive workflows.
- Partner with cross-functional teams such as Marcom, Business Process Re-engineering (BPR), Product Marketing and Engineering on developing new solutions to improve digital content distribution.
Job Tags
Temporary work, Worldwide, Relocation,