About the position
At Apple, we focus deeply on our customers’ experience. Apple Ads brings this same approach to advertising, helping people find exactly what they’re looking for and helping advertisers grow their businesses. Our technology powers ads and sponsorships across Apple Services, including the App Store, Apple News, and MLS Season Pass. Everything we do is designed for trust, connection, and impact: We respect user privacy, integrate advertising thoughtfully into the experience, and deliver value for advertisers of all sizes—from small app developers to big, global brands. When advertising is done right, it benefits everyone. We are looking for an experienced, hardworking, and trustworthy product leader to focus on evolving and growing our financial platform that underpins our advertising products. The Manager of Product Management, Finance and Billing will lead a product manager team that designs and delivers billing, tax, currency, and account management capabilities to support our entire portfolio of advertising products. You will be involved in product strategy, development, and launching new products that allow customers to discover new products and services within the Apple ecosystem. You’ll apply your judgment and customer insights to help infuse innovative ideas into our platform, allowing customers to succeed in their strategies. You will partner with other groups in Apple Ads to drive positive results along our top and bottom lines.
Responsibilities
- Spearhead initiatives that will transform the way Apple Ads interacts with customers for billing, tax profile management, account management, and operationalize our rapid growth.
- Deliver seamless customer experiences that enable thousands of customers to easily manage their invoices, lines of credit, tax obligations, and financial performance across multiple advertising products.
- Build scalable, reliable, and secure payment, revenue collection, and finance products.
- Lead a team to build scalable systems and products supporting global accounting, financial reporting, and tax regulations.
- Create and manage a multi-year agile roadmap while balancing dependencies with internal Apple Ads teams and other Apple groups, like internal finance and enterprise IT.
- Coordinate Finance, EPM, Product Engineering implementations and client support with vendor and internal service partners.
- Communicate and debate ideas with senior business, product, and engineering leaders at Apple.
- Coordinate with other product managers to integrate development timelines (including customer interfaces, algorithms and data platforms).
- Bring industry thought leadership and external perspectives to educate peers and senior stakeholders on the art of the possible as it relates to financial platforms in Software as a Service and influence partners in Finance to implement new technology that brings value in greater efficiency and a better user experience.
- Maintain industry knowledge and enhance subject matter expertise, identify trends and changes in client and competitor behaviors, and keep abreast of changing regulatory requirements.
- Manage Product Managers who function as the central resource with design, engineering, and marketing as the product(s) move to completion and distribution.
- Coach and develop Product Managers in agile development process, submitting thorough user stories for development.
- Comfortable coordinating with disparate scrum teams to achieve results.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience with successful demonstration in building revenue and billing systems in a Software-as-a-service environment.
- 7+ years of full life cycle Product Management experience including: strategy, development, launch, growth, optimization, sunset.
- 2+ years of professional experience managing or leading a team of product managers.
- Experience making payment and revenue systems a source of innovation for businesses in a growth phase.
- Deep experience negotiating functional and technical terms across multiple internal and external collaborators.
- Excellent executive communication along with the ability to clearly articulate product strategy requirements to collaborators, engineering and internal business partners.
- Strong analytical abilities with the ability to analyze opportunities using quantitative and qualitative techniques.
- Experience leading design, feature breakdown and products from inception to shipped software.
Nice-to-haves
- 10+ years of professional experience with successful demonstration in building revenue and billing systems in a Software-as-a-service environment.
- 10+ years of full life cycle Product Management experience including: strategy, development, launch, growth, optimization, sunset.
- 5+ years of professional experience managing or leading a team of product managers.
