Business Manager, Product Marketing
Apple
Marketing & Communications, Product, Sales & Business Development
Cupertino, CA, USA
USD 137,900-207,300 / year + Equity
Posted on Jun 6, 2026
The Mac Business Management team for Worldwide Product Marketing is a high impact, analytical team supporting pivotal roadmap decisions. The Business Manager will work with highly confidential future roadmap information, collaborate cross-functionally across various groups, and have direct exposure to the highest levels of decision making at Apple. The lean structure on Business Management fosters high business ownership and offers a unique platform to influence strategic decisions at Apple from product concept to launch. We are looking to on-board a Mac Business Manager who will serve as an engaged business partner responsible for covering our flagship consumer laptops product line that millions of customers use every day.
• Influence and drive business/ product decisions for the Mac product-line in cross-functional partnership with Product Marketing Managers, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Customer Analytics, Sales and Market Research • Advise on product pricing, feature arbitration and line-up decisions with business analyses considering units, revenue and margin implications by integrating a multitude of varied data sources • Own unit forecasts for new product introductions for Mac that are leveraged across Apple’s supply chain informing long-term purchase decisions for equipment, assembly lines and commodity procurement • Absorb and dissect sales trends, customer activations trends, buyer surveys, external market research and technical performance benchmarks to inform product and business strategy for Mac product lines • Formulate connected insights for executive leadership following new product introductions assessing product market fit; rigorously challenge customer demand signals based on a deep understanding of Mac customer psychology • Partner closely with silicon engineering, platform architecture and operations teams to map the Apple silicon roadmap to Mac hardware product lines • Provide Product Marketing leadership with visibility into state of the Mac business by preparing quarterly business reviews and monthly financial metrics (units, revenue, and gross-margin) • Partner closely with Data Scientist to drive and inform ML models for demand forecasts • Support stealth investigations, special projects and ad-hoc requests for senior Apple leadership
- 5 years of experience in a highly analytical role with frequent exposure to business case and scenario modeling
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Finance, or another quantitative field
- Deep passion for Apple’s products and mission
- Ability to work comfortably under ambiguity to deliver fully developed and well-reasoned analyses
- Strong and structured communicator
- Ownership mindset and high agency to take a proactive role in leading project work-streams from end-to-end
- Strong attention to detail and ability to 'see around corners’
- High proficiency in Excel modeling, with strong competency (or aptitude to learn) R, SQL, Tableau, and Python
- Adept at working cross-functionally and managing senior stakeholder relationships
- Comfort navigating product or engineering topics with keen interest to ramp on new and un-familiar technical content