Product Solutions Analyst
Summary
At Apple, we believe our most important resource is our people. We're looking for a skilled Product Manager to help shape the future of the technology that brings extraordinary people to Apple. This role will partner with business and engineering teams to design, build, and continuously improve tools that power how we attract, evaluate, and hire talent.
Description
The ideal candidate brings a mix of product management expertise, recruiting technology domain knowledge, and strong cross-functional influence. You'll work at the intersection of product strategy, engineering, recruiting operations, and compliance to deliver scalable, user-friendly solutions for the China market, while contributing to and shaping the global recruiting technology roadmap as a member of a global team.
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineering and cross-functional teams to design, deliver, and continuously improve an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and related internal recruiting technologies and integrations.
- Translate recruiting business needs into clear product requirements that deliver operational excellence and compliance while creating an exceptional candidate experience.
- Write clear and concise product definitions that capture the vision, goals, and key elements of new offerings.
- Manage the full product lifecycle, from research and requirements gathering to launch, adoption, and ongoing optimization.
- Represent China market needs and constraints within the global Recruiting Technology team's roadmap planning, ensuring local requirements are reflected in global product decisions.
- Identify opportunities where solutions built for the China market, such as localization patterns, compliance workflows, or platform integrations, can be generalized or reused to benefit recruiting technology in other regions.
- Anticipate and manage upstream and downstream dependencies across multiple systems and stakeholders.
- Facilitate complex discussions by uncovering the "why" behind requests and driving decisions that balance business and technical tradeoffs.
- Ensure recruiting processes and tools meet compliance requirements while delivering user-friendly, intuitive workflows.
- Collaborate across time zones as part of a global team.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of HR technology product management or related experience, including hands-on delivery with engineering teams.
- English, Mandarin fluency. Other language fluency a plus but not required.
- Experience in an in-house recruiting product or process role designing and implementing cross-system recruiting processes from design through delivery, including ongoing support and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated ability to contribute local expertise to shared global roadmap decisions rather than operating in a regional silo.
- Strong ability to operate at multiple levels simultaneously, from defining long-term strategy to driving day-to-day execution details.
- Track record of driving clarity and momentum in ambiguous situations, enabling quick, informed, data-centric tradeoff decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, build consensus, and foster trust with stakeholders at every level, from executives to recruiters to engineers, operating with increasing independence as scope and ambiguity grow.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with varied stakeholders (executives, recruiters, hiring managers, engineering, operations, legal, privacy, etc.), including the ability to engage external vendors when needed.
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience supporting talent acquisition in Mainland China, including familiarity with local hiring practices, labor regulations, and candidate expectations.
- Working knowledge of China data localization requirements as applied to HR/recruiting systems.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to balance attention to detail with big-picture thinking.
- Working experience in Agile development methodology.