Software Engineering Manager, iOS & macOS Contacts

Summary
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.

We're looking for a passionate software engineering manager to lead the Contacts Engineering team.

In this role, you will be at the center of Apple's communication user experiences, with high potential to innovate:

* Showing people in gorgeous yet utilitarian ways across apps.
* Giving control over communication preferences.
* Keeping track of important relationships.
* Making it easy to have accurate, up-to-date information about people.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

* Setting the agenda for how we manage and represent people in our software.
* Maximizing our team effectiveness by mentoring our high growth employees to succeed in lead roles.
* Making the right strategic technology decisions. Building a rich feature set while strengthening reliability.
* Shaping product direction by developing vision and building relationships with key cross-functional stakeholders, including: peer engineering teams, the design team, senior software leadership, and the product marketing team.

This team has a duty to shape and drive Apple's communication user experiences. We fulfill our duty by caring deeply, living on our software, developing defensible opinions on what to keep / what to change, and having empathy for the countless users across the world who rely on us every day.



Description
Please join us in strengthening the Apple ecosystem and bringing users together with innovative and secure communications technologies. The Contacts team is a passionate collection of engineers who are looking for a motivated engineering manager with aspirations to build powerful products that change our customers' lives, cultivate learning, and lead cross-functional efforts to success. This team's products are deeply important to Apple users and our success depends on partnership, technical leadership, and diverse experiences!

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