Product Manager, AI/ML, Apple Ads, Marketplace

Apple Inc

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Cupertino, CA
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$150,400–$277,600 / yr
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3 days ago
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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · Product Manager, AI/ML, Apple Ads, Marketplace

The Product Manager, AI/ML - Apple Ads, Marketplace joins the Apple Ads Marketplace team to build next-generation AI/ML systems for ad discovery, relevance, quality, and safety. This role involves defining product strategies and roadmaps for large-scale systems, translating technical capabilities into requirements, and managing the full ML lifecycle from data development to production deployment. Candidates will work on Ad Matching & Retrieval, focusing on semantic matching, query understanding, embeddings, and vector retrieval, or Ad Relevance, Quality & Safety, involving LLM-powered raters, model distillation, classification, and real-time guardrails. The position requires proficiency in SQL, deep learning, and LLM fine-tuning to solve complex marketplace problems. You will partner with research and engineering teams to deliver high-utility advertiser offerings while maintaining strict user privacy and platform trust.

What does a Product Manager earn in California?

Median $221750 from 318 postings across 58 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define product vision, strategy, roadmaps, and success metrics for large-scale AI/ML systems.
  • Translate technical ML capabilities into clear product requirements, execution plans, and impactful user experiences.
  • Drive products through the full lifecycle from problem definition and technical exploration to production deployment.
  • Use data and experimentation to identify marketplace opportunities and evaluate model performance.
  • Define metrics connecting ML system performance to user satisfaction, engagement, and advertiser value.
  • Incorporate privacy-preserving signals and platform knowledge into Marketplace systems.
  • Communicate complex technical concepts and tradeoffs to engineering, research, and executive stakeholders.
  • Manage specific areas like Ad Matching & Retrieval or Ad Relevance, Quality & Safety.

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of technical product management experience owning complex products including machine learning, AI, search, or advertising.
  • Hands-on experience training, fine-tuning, evaluating, and inferencing large-scale deep learning models and LLMs.
  • Domain knowledge in areas such as search, information retrieval, matching, recommendations, AI/ML evaluation, or classification.
  • Experience with high-throughput, low-latency online inference architectures across client and cloud server environments.
  • Proficiency with SQL and data exploration in large-scale data warehouses.
  • Ability to translate complex AI/ML architectures into PRDs, system diagrams, and executive strategies.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Science, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience building large-scale advertising, marketplace, search, or recommendation systems (preferred).

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