Imagine what you can do here. At Apple, ideas have a way of becoming phenomenal products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. We truly believe that at Apple, you will do your life's best work. Join the Commerce Platform Optimization team and help take our commerce, payments, data, and analytics platform to new heights. You'll be an integrated part of one of the most innovative companies in the world. Your work will have the opportunity to create amazing experiences for customers who are purchasing digital goods and services from content creators, developers, and Apple! Our commerce platform supports billions of transactions in over 170 countries. Apple stands for elevating the human experience with technology, and for the Commerce team, this translates into seamless commerce experiences for our customers. We do this through our commerce platform in many ways. Our intuitive rigor is a big part of who we are. Intuition is important, and we believe that it gets fine tuned with sharp analytic rigor. Intuition and rigor are not in conflict and support each other in a virtuous cycle. Our team sits at the intersection of engineering, data science and product management. We play a pivotal role in bringing Product Decision Intelligence to Commerce. Product Decision Intelligence adds a specialized decision quality layer on top of generic Product Management. Our work brings clarity on value to all our partners and helps our product leaders build and implement outstanding strategies. This team is dynamic, hardworking, and passionate about the intersection of decision quality, data science and hi-tech data product management. We need a top-tier leader to manage a group of Product Managers in the five pillars of Product Decision Intelligence: Product Evaluation, Portfolio Evaluation, Machine Learning Decision Intelligence, Experimentation Decision Intelligence, and End-to-End Data Products. The ideal candidate will bring related industry and academic experience in each of the pillars, and will be able to nurture and grow a talented team in this space. This team guides product managers in building robust strategies to optimize the commerce platform. They help product managers clarify the core value proposition, understand the key output metrics, build a funnel of value, and take a fundamentals-driven approach to designing KPIs. They partner with data scientists to envision compelling data products that help sharpen our lens of value, in what may be termed "Decision-driven data making." They support Product in designing and running Decision Analytic AB tests. They place a Decision Analysis layer on top of Artificial Intelligence to help answer: which are the most valuable opportunities in AI? They write specs for new machine optimization features bringing in a strong decision analytic perspective. Our commerce platform facilitates billions of transactions by hundreds of millions of customers in the App Store, and across Apple's services, so you can add several 0s to the impact of your work! This role will require you to work closely with global and cross-functional teams such as Analytics, Engineering, Product Management, Product Marketing, Legal, Fraud, and Finance. You'll love it here if you thrive in environments where introspective thought is valued just as highly as collaboration. Where quality matters over quantity. You will get a chance to deploy your analytical, technical, writing, and facilitation skills along with your eye for clear business models. Experience with Engineering Ru0026D Familiarity with the Apple ecosystem Familiarity with Bayesian AB Testing Familiarity with ML modeling and deployment Experience teaching Decision Analysis conceptsArray