Apple Ads is looking to improve its machine learning models for search and recommendation systems to enhance customer experience and help advertisers grow their businesses, while respecting user privacy.
Requirements
- Proficiency in SQL and experience in analyzing complex, large-scale data sets to form hypotheses, evaluate experiment results, justify product opportunities, and measure success.
- Proven experience in defining measurable and interpretable success metrics and rallying cross-functional teams to achieve them.
- Strong track record of collaborating with engineering and data science teams to develop, launch, and improve machine learning models.
- Previous experience working on search and/or recommendation systems or another consumer product that uses machine learning.
- Previous experience working in digital advertising and/or familiarity with digital advertising concepts through usage of ad platforms.
Responsibilities
- Act as product owner for the machine learning models underlying our privacy-preserving search and recommendation systems.
- Define success criteria and product requirements for our models by cultivating a deep understanding of the relationship between our models and business / customer outcomes.
- Formulate clear and measurable hypotheses for how to improve success metrics, work with engineering and data science teams to test hypotheses, and make decisions based on experiment results.
- Synthesize insights from data analysis, customer calls, and sales feedback into clear and concise opportunity areas and develop short-term and long-term roadmaps around these opportunity areas.
- Collaborate with engineering, data science, and research teams to develop, launch, evaluate, and improve search and recommendation system models.
- Collaborate with privacy, engineering, and business teams to develop novel privacy-preserving strategies for collecting information for use in our model.
- Produce high-quality 1-pagers, product requirements, and presentations, to convey opportunity areas, experiment results, recommendations, and product strategy to cross-functional teams and leadership on a regular basis.
Other
- Product Management experience.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly and concisely convey results and opportunity areas to cross-functional teams and leadership.
- Customer-centric attitude, with the ability to define and prioritize use cases and customer objectives.
- Excels in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of ownership and accountability.
- 5+ years of Product Management experience.