AIML - Engineering Program Manager, Data Operations for Machine Translation

Posted: Feb 26, 2024

Role Number:200540138

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Do you love taking on challenges that create a positive impact? Are you passionate about empowering many ground-breaking intelligent experiences to be made? The Apple AIML org is building groundbreaking technology! We’re looking for a data operations program manager who would be responsible for managing human annotation acquisition efforts for Machine Translation. The program manager will be managing and coordinating projects with vendors, annotation platform teams, legal, finance, and partner data scientists & engineers to create data assets which are used to power and evaluate ground breaking machine learned experiences.

Key Qualifications

5+ years in a role leading data acquisition, operations and evaluation with a strong focus on execution
Your project management skills are outstanding; you are able to work with engineering counterparts to prioritize competing projects and maintain an accurate schedule for project completions.
You have strong presentation skills; Experience leading cross functional security and privacy initiatives and collaborating with Legal, Privacy Engineering, Security and other teams across the organization to ensure compliance with privacy policies and security mandates
You have experience working with annotation vendors; you can maintain solid relationships, ensure accurate invoicing, and act as the intermediary between engineering and vendors.
You have experience managing large annotation budgets; you can drive budget planning and help prioritize requests, project costs, and track current spend.
Ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, make recommendations and drive actions
Self-motivated, independent, and proactive; demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities; can quickly (real-time) triage, prioritize, drive consensus and lead cross- functional teams under pressure
You are familiar with general office software and are able to maintain sophisticated spreadsheets of requests.

Description

Specific Responsibilities Include: - Prioritizing and scheduling data annotation and acquisition projects to align with the organization goals and timelines - Driving the budget planning for data annotation and acquisition efforts and communicating with Finance - Coordinating with vendors to establish long term partnerships and ensure proper and accurate invoicing - Reviewing and advising the development of annotation projects strategies, interfaces and guidelines - Serving as an interface for feedback and questions from annotators back to MT engineers. - Driving evaluation process and deliver evaluation results with quality assurance.

Education & Experience

Bachelor's or equivalent experience in EE/CS/CE

Additional Requirements

5+ year experience in project management and team coordination
Experience in managing human annotation efforts preferred
Experience in data analytics and software engineering preferred
Experience with Data and Machine Learning products is a plus
Prior PM or engineering experience in speech recognition, natural language understanding, data pipelines is a plus

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 $132,300.00 and $241,500.00, 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.

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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.