Ergonomics Product Design Engineering Program Manager, Vision Products Group

Apple is where individual imaginations gather together committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build service we create or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each others ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world changing lives for the better. Its the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in we can do the best work of our lives. Here youll do more than join something youll add Vision Pro is a revolutionary spatial computer that seamlessly blends digital content with your physical space. It will allow us to do the things we love in ways never before possible all while staying connected to the people around team is seeking an experienced highly technical EPM to drive cross-functional research user studies safety fit comfort and performance requirements supporting an advanced ergonomic product design organization. nnThis role will include frequent multi-disciplinary collaboration with teams like Product Design Applied Research Human System Interaction Core Technology and more to define specification and validation plans that map from top level features down to hardware research study and experimentation specifications. We need someone to work cross-functionally to accurately demonstrate human factor trade-offs distill them into key performance requirements and drive product decisions.

As an Ergonomics PD EPM you will partner with the product design design human factors applied research center core technology and product quality teams to define product specifications define and execute user studies create validation plans and drive cross functional reviews with peers and executive teams

Assisting in the development of research questions and studies around perceptual comfort fit safety and user experiencennWorking cross-functionally with product design and industrial design team members to translate user-study data into transformative hardware prototypes and demonstrations evaluating multiple inputs converging on the plan and building consensusnnDriving the manufacturing and assembly of early prototypes managing budget and authorizing paymentnnDeveloping and maintaining knowledge management system to capture user-study data and findingsnnCreating and documenting hardware system specifications based on top level featuresnnMapping end-to-end feature specifications to test and validation requirementsnnPresenting your findings to cross-functional partners and stakeholdersnnCreating and maintaining streamlined development schedules by redirecting pitfalls and developing an improved course of actionnnOffering multiple levels of status updates across a wide spectrum of individual contributors to executive managementnnDriving cross-functional teams to execute complex projects in dynamic and ambiguous work environments

BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering Computer Engineering Biomedical Engineering Human Computer Interaction OR equivalent degree/experiencen6 years of combined experience in program management and human/systems engineering delivering products comprised of multiple materials complex integration user study development and execution with a consistent track record leading and shipping multiple complex projects simultaneouslynExperience leading full life-cycle end-to-end program development in highly dynamic and ambiguous work environments with a keen eye for user experience and impactnWide knowledge of product development processes including familiarity of manufacturing rapid-prototyping and assembly processesnAbility to anticipate functional direction and roadblocks prioritize parallel closure paths and effectively distill and communicate relevant HW/SW design trade-offs to the appropriate functional teams including leadershipnExcellent communication teamwork and cross-functional engagement skills are criticalnExcellent problem solving and creative thinking

Experience managing projects that require in-person user-study sessions and complex data analysisnPrior experience with design of human studies for engineering evaluation is highly desirable