Principal Product Manager, Search Platform
Apple
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San Francisco, CA · Posted October 22, 2026
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November 2026
- #1Best cities for security jobs316 openings · of 20
- #1Best cities for technology jobs7,178 openings · of 100
- #1Best cities for financial services pay after cost of living$173k · of 33
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- #1Best cities for entry-level jobs that want AI skills in the West Coast35% · of 54
- #1Cities with the most jobs that do not need a four-year degree in the West Coast902 jobs · of 47
Rankings about product jobs
- Best cities for product jobs #1 New York (738 openings)
- Best cities for product pay after cost of living #1 Santa Clara ($224k)
- Most requested AI skills in product jobs #1 AI product management (17.9%)
- AI tools named most often in product jobs #1 Claude (3.2%)
- Employers with the most product jobs #1 Amazon (356 roles)
Pay compared with the market
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How AI is used in this kind of work
Among marketing managers, AI is already used for a large share of the tasks. Measured exposure for marketing managers: 32% (high).
Share of this job’s tasks that AI is already used for at work, from real usage. It is not a forecast of job loss, and a low number means no use seen yet. Source: Anthropic Economic Index.
Apple has filed 4 layoff notices in the last twelve months, covering 225 workers, most recently August 2026. These are public filings with state labor departments, and an open role can sit alongside them. See the filings
About the job
Build the future of Apple's search platform at the core of Apple's AI strategy. Apple's Search Platform powers how Apple's AI services find, retrieve, and ground answers for over a billion users. As the systems behind these experiences evolve from traditional search to retrieval-augmented generation and large language model grounding; this role sits at the center of that transformation. You will own the product strategy for the search and grounding infrastructure that underpins Apple's AI products, working with world-class engineering and ML teams to define what these systems do, how they scale, and where they go next.