News+ Growth Features Lead

Summary

At Apple, we don’t just build great products — we create a kind of wonder that revolutionizes entire industries. It’s the diversity of our people and their ideas driving the innovation in everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple and help us leave the world better than we found it.

Apple News and News+ bring world-class journalism, magazines, puzzles, food content, audio, and more to millions of readers every day. We're looking for a strategic, business-minded operator to own the feature perspective across Apple News and News+ — connecting product investment to subscriber growth and revenue outcomes.

Description

In this role, you'll serve as the business lead across a portfolio of user-facing features, working closely with Product, Engineering, Finance, Marketing, and partner teams. You'll bring clarity to complex trade-offs, develop well-framed opportunities for prioritization, and ensure every team working on News+ understands how their work contributes to the business.

Responsibilities

• Represent business goals and subscriber targets in cross-functional feature discussions with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations
• Identify and develop new feature opportunities, bringing forward well-framed proposals for Product and Engineering prioritization
• Partner with Finance and Analytics to maintain growth plans, revenue impact assessments, and cost tracking at the feature level
• Own feature-level inputs into annual and quarterly business planning cycles
• Draft business-facing materials including performance readouts, growth forecasts, and strategic recommendations for leadership
• Coordinate go-to-market efforts with Marketing for new feature launches

Minimum Qualifications

• 8–10 years of experience in growth strategy, business operations, or adjacent roles at a consumer technology or media company
• Strong familiarity with subscription business models, including growth levers, engagement metrics, and content-driven retention
• Experience developing business cases, financial models, and performance narratives for executive audiences
• Proven track record of translating qualitative and quantitative signals into clear, actionable recommendations

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong product sense with the ability to identify and gain support for new feature opportunities
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and influence without authority across Product, Engineering, Finance, and partner teams
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; highly organized, action-oriented, and comfortable navigating ambiguity
• Experience in subscription media, publishing, or consumer services preferred
• Comfort working across time zones and collaborating with geographically distributed teams
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously and adapt quickly to shifting priorities
• MBA preferred