Privacy Compliance Analyst at Apple in Shanghai

Job description

• Posted:
• Sep 18, 2026
• 200684065
• Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world? Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization. IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them. It’s Apple’s central nervous system. Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.
• Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale? Imagine what you could do here.
• Business Operations, Employee Engagement, and Strategy is part of IS&T and shapes the strategy, operations, and culture of IS&T. The team oversees business planning, IS&T’s partnership strategy across Apple, and the technology tools that support the organization’s day-to-day operations. This team also leads IS&T’s enterprise generative AI strategy and manages compliance across systems. Through its communications and employee programs, it champions the growth, inclusion, and development of everyone in IS&T and drives the standard for IS&T brand and product communications across Apple.
• We are looking for an exceptional Engineering Project Manager (EPM) to drive end-to-end delivery across our infrastructure portfolio in China:
• • Lead Infra project roadmaps, critical paths, dependencies, risks, and executive reporting across multiple
• • Partner with US and China engineering teams to synchronize infrastructure roadmaps with application delivery
• • Establish team cadences, clear ownership, and transparent progress tracking across distributed teams and time zones.
• • Serve as the main bridge across engineering, business partners, and local vendors to accelerate decisions and unblock teams.
• • Lead complex platform migrations and multi-cloud rollouts with phased cutover plans, contingencies, and change control.
• • Identify opportunities for cloud optimization, infrastructure efficiency, and cost governance across regional environments.
• • Ensure complete technical handoffs from provisioning through to operational support.
• • Communicate complex technical updates, trade-offs, and project status clearly to both engineering and leadership teams

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute project plans by leading scope definition, schedule breakdown, quality definition, and resource allocation
• Actively and expertly collaborate with business and engineering teams on innovative solutions, requirements, scope, and project deliverables
• Proactively identify, mitigate and communicate project issues and risks
• Prioritize issues while negotiating and setting appropriate expectations with team members, stakeholders and senior management
• Prioritize team activities and drive resolution of issues across all areas of the project
• As an application product owner, define product vision and align business expectations
• Gain insight into business direction and think through its impact on product and drive changes
• Develop user empathy and be able to present metrics on existing feature usage to supplement/justify ask for new features
• Ability to guard product boundaries by defining what should and should not be included in the product.

Requirements

• • Must be based in China and possess bilingual fluency in native Mandarin and English with the ability to collaborate and report effectively across both languages.
• • 5+ years of Technical Program Management (TPM) experience delivering infrastructure or cloud initiatives in global tech organizations.
• • In-depth understanding of operating in China, including local business practices, regulatory requirements, and cultural dynamics.
• • Demonstrated ability to bridge US-based global roadmaps with local China execution across time zones and organizational boundaries.
• • Proven track record of bringing structure and clarity to ambiguous, fast-moving programs without introducing unnecessary process overhead.
• • Highly self-motivated and independent, with exceptional prioritization and problem-solving skills under tight delivery timelines.
• • Demonstrated success managing large-scale infrastructure or platform migrations from initial architecture through cutover and operational handoff.
• • Strong multi-cloud exposure (AWS or regional cloud providers) with proven experience driving cloud optimization, workload right-sizing, and cost-efficiency initiatives.
• • Solid technical foundation in core networking concepts (DNS, load balancing, hybrid connectivity, routing) and database architectures (relational and distributed data stores).
• • Experience collaborating with regional telecom/datacenter partners and navigating strict security, privacy, and data compliance frameworks (e.g., China Cybersecurity Law, DSL, PIPL).
• • Exceptional program discipline with proven expertise in dependency mapping, critical path tracking, and automated KPI dash boarding.
• • BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Skills

Required

• Technical Program Management (TPM)
• Infrastructure or cloud initiatives
• Self-motivated and independent