K-12 Education Program Manager - Hardware Engineering
Apple
Other Engineering, Operations
Cupertino, CA, USA
USD 146,300-291,400 / year + Equity
Posted on Dec 9, 2025
Come join a team of dedicated people passionate about continuously improving the culture in Hardware Engineering (HWE). We are looking for someone to help lead our early talent pipeline strategy, specifically focused on K-12 education programs with a goal of getting students exposed and interested in engineering. This is a highly collaborative role where you will work with leadership (internal, as well as school and district leaders), engineers, people from several other organizations within Apple, and third party partners to ensure we are helping to prepare future talent for engineering.
We’re looking for someone to lead HWE’s early talent pipeline initiatives, ranging from summer camps to external engagement events. Your experience should showcase a deep understanding of the K-12 education space, the ability to build strategic professional relationships and connections with students, faculty, and staff. You should also be able to effectively prioritize, drive decisions, and problem solve — both collaboratively and individually. You should have experience utilizing data to track the efficacy of initiatives, implement a variety of methods for collecting feedback, and apply what you learn to continuously iterate, change, and improve programs and practices.
- You will be responsible for all aspects of Apple Maker Academy, an engineering summer camp for high school students, including coming up with equitable selection criteria for participants and mentors, working with engineers to design camp content, sending and maintaining all communication, managing the logistics of booking spaces, speakers, and activities, collecting feedback, overseeing finances, and updating leadership.
- Lead Apple’s relationship with FIRST Robotics, including interfacing with the organization as a representative of Apple, handling the distribution of funds, collaborating with mentors, and organizing and participating in off-site activities.
- Program manage a summer camp for educators to help them learn how to teach materials science in their classrooms in partnership with Materials engineers.
- Bachelor’s in Education, Administration, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years experience in K-12 education, specifically working directly with students, teachers, site administrators, and families
- Experience managing a full cycle program, from inception to completion, involving a budget and external partners
- Experience working directly with K-12 students
- Passionate about creating inclusive educational environments and developing and mentoring people, especially students
- Proven success building meaningful business relationships, influencing leaders and cross-functional teams, and managing partner expectations
- Excellent project management, presentation, and communication skills with an emphasis on collaboration
- Able to think critically, especially when exploring and evaluating solutions and making decisions
- Able to effectively allocate attention among multiple projects to ensure success while adhering to strict schedules
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and able to flourish in a highly dynamic environment
- Eager to receive feedback, drive for excellence, and see exciting projects through completion
- Master’s in Education, Administration, or equivalent experience
- Experience working in an engineering organization and influencing highly technical leaders
- Experience with FIRST Robotics
- Experience working with external partners
- Experience with 3D printing
- Comfortable teaching others to code with Swift Playground
- Experience designing camps focused on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics)
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