Senior Services Compliance Manager, Apple Services

requirements map directly to Apple’s services, translating them into concrete technical options, trade-offs, and actionable recommendations for engineering and business leadership. Strategic Partner & Relationship Management: You serve as a US principal owner of relationships with critical operating partners in China established in response to regulatory requirements. You navigate the cultural, political, operational, and technical differences between organizations, successfully mapping the needs and constraints of both sides to maintain trusted, productive partnerships. People Leadership: You lead, support, and grow a senior team responsible for driving key China regulatory and compliance work across Services. You foster deep ownership, empowering your team to develop options and recommendations and drive cross-functional alignment so our engineering teams can focus on delivering the highest quality products and services. Technical Depth: You bring the technical depth required to evaluate how regulations apply to our systems, including understanding service system architectures, backend data flows, and cloud infrastructure. You ensure that requirements are grounded in sound, scalable engineering solutions. Executive Communication & Cross-Functional Influence: You communicate and influence effectively with executives and leadership across Apple. You build the trust necessary to bridge these teams, align competing priorities, and drive consensus on high-stakes decisions. Scaling Through Process & Frameworks: You scale your team’s impact by designing practical operating processes and frameworks. You bring structure and clarity to complex programs. 8+ years of experience leading complex technical programs in cloud or internet services. 4+ years of formal people management experience, successfully leading and developing senior technical teams. 4+ years of dedicated experience translating legal, regulatory, compliance, or data governance requirements into technical specifications and engineering roadmaps. Demonstrated technical competence evaluating services architectures, backend data flows, or cloud infrastructure. Proven track record managing and negotiating complex technical, operational, or business relationships with external strategic partners. Demonstrated excellence communicating with and influencing senior leadership across engineering, legal, business, product, and operations organizations to drive high-stakes decisions. In-depth experience leading technical compliance or engineering initiatives. Experience with China internet or data regulations a strong plus. Experience collaborating extensively across time zones with engineering, operations, and partner teams in China; professional working proficiency in Mandarin Chinese is a strong plus. Direct experience participating in or preparing engineering organizations for technical audits, regulatory inquiries, or external certification reviews. Deep domain experience with consumer internet platforms or cloud infrastructure operating at a global scale. Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical technical leadership experience.