Apple's Intelligent System Experience (ISE) Incubation team needs a leader to advance its mission of building inspiring prototypes and transforming creative ideas into innovative new products and features, fostering cross-functional collaboration and iterating on concepts to deliver transformative experiences for Apple users.
Requirements
- competence and experience working with modern ML and GenAI models
- understanding of current platform capabilities
- cutting edge ML technology
- Track record of prototyping and 0-1 thinking, and moving an idea or concept from ideation through prototyping to decision making.
- Experience with Apple platforms - including a general understanding of the design paradigms, general technologies & capabilities available.
- Understanding of ML fundamentals and experience working with modern GenAI models.
- deeper experience in Apple platform technologies, experience with cutting edge language or vision ML technologies
Responsibilities
- build inspiring prototypes
- turn creative ideas into innovative new products and features
- take big, fuzzy ideas about what might be possible, and then turn them into concrete prototypes and livable software
- generate and prototype innovative ideas
- iterating on concepts to deliver transformative experiences for Apple users
- understand which technologies are worth developing because they could offer powerful new experiences to our users
- push for unique, compelling new experiences that push technology forward
Other
- leader to advance its mission
- fostering cross-functional collaboration across the company
- strong opinion about what makes for unique and compelling ideas, and can help guide a team in making those ideas real
- live at the intersection of technology and experience
- Team and people management experience, scaling a team to 20+ engineers, designers, and scientists.
- Communication across diverse skill sets and an ability to communicate effectively with designers, engineers, and executives.
- 5+ years of leadership or management experience, including growing teams with diverse skill sets.
- a design sense, and an ability to advocate for ideas and for the team are all key skills for this role.
- Communication across diverse skill sets and an ability to communicate effectively with designers, engineers, and executives.
- Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent skills and work experience
- A background in software engineering fundamentals, or application design would be ideal.
