Manager, AirPods Product Management

Job description

As a manager within our Worldwide Product Marketing group, you'll represent the customer throughout a product's journey from concept through development and launch. You'll develop and apply insights to help infuse innovative audio features and advanced technology into our product-development process. Together with your team, you'll work to craft groundbreaking ideas into products that impact customers around the world. Description At Apple, we combine product management, product development, and product marketing responsibilities into a single, cross-functional Product Marketing role that collaborates with design, engineering, operations, finance, legal, marketing communications, public relations, market research, sales, and support for maximum impact across the organization. We are currently seeking a dynamic, successful product marketing leader to manage the AirPods Product Management group. You will lead the team helping define and market new products and features across the AirPods portfolio, as well as helping Apple continue to lead in the audio and consumer electronics categories. This includes working both inbound and outbound to drive the development, introduction, and lifecycle of features and technologies. We are looking for a passionate person to lead this amazing team and if you feel this is you, we'd love to hear from you. Responsibilities: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of product marketing professionals through the complete product development process. Work in a global cross-functional team with hardware and software engineering, industrial and human interface design, finance, operations, sales, marketing communications, and public relations. Evaluate new technologies and make recommendations for future products. Collect global customer, developer, and partner requirements for new products. Manage trade-offs involving features, schedule, line positioning, and lifecycle management. Discern new product development opportunities while contributing to the development of the overall AirPods product line strategy and roadmap. Possess expert understanding of audio technologies, competitive products, and industry trends. Communicate and position the product in context of the competitive landscape. Define product positioning and key product messages. Work with marketing communications and PR on the development of product launch activities, product m…