Engineering Program Manager (EPM) — Ecodesign Regulatory Compliance

Imagine what you could do here at Apple, where new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. At Apple, we deliver products, technologies, and services to inspire creativity and enrich lives. Apple has become one of the most recognized and trusted brands in the world. As such, we hold ourselves to the highest standards to maintain public and employee trust by ensuring regulatory compliance. Apple's commitment to environmental leadership extends to how every product is designed, built, used, and recovered. The Product Analysis and Compliance Engineering (PACE) team is at the center of that commitment — serving as the critical bridge between global regulatory teams, government affairs, legal, operations, and hardware engineering, to ensure Apple products meet and exceed the world's most ambitious ecodesign and sustainability regulations. We are seeking an Engineering Program Manager to lead complex, cross-functional programs that drive Apple's Ecodesign compliance strategy forward. In this role, you will translate emerging ecodesign regulations — spanning energy efficiency, repairability, durability, recyclability, and material efficiency — into actionable compliance plans, orchestrate multi-stakeholder initiatives across Apple's hardware portfolio, and partner with Apple's International Environmental Initiatives (IEI), Legal, and Government Affairs teams to shape the regulatory landscape. This is not a passive compliance role — it is a leadership position where you will influence product design decisions, drive engineering teams toward regulatory readiness, assess compliance risk alongside legal partners, and help define how the electronics industry approaches circular, resource-efficient product design. If you thrive at the intersection of sustainable engineering, product design, and regulatory compliance — and excel at bringing order to complexity — we'd love to hear from you. ## Description We are looking for self-motivated, fast learners with excellent verbal and written communication skills who are eager to collaborate with multiple internal and external stakeholders to drive the adoption of innovative solutions through product design and engineering, directed at creating world-class products that meet the highest global standards for energy efficiency, repairability, and environmental performance. The ideal candidate will establish strong business relationships, understand their goals and objectives, and help navigate conflicts and competing priorities with diplomacy and data-driven insights. ## Responsibilities Own end-to-end program management for ecodesign regulatory compliance initiatives that span all of Apple's hardware product lines Develop and maintain comprehensive program plans — including schedules, milestones, Gantt charts, risk registers, and compliance implementation roadmaps — for regulatory initiatives affecting Apple hardware (e.g., EU Energy-related Products Directive (ErP) Lot 3, Lot 5, Lot 7, and emerging Lot X measures; the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR); the EU Batteries Regulation; France's Repairability and Durability Indices; US state-level right-to-repair legislation; and India's emerging e-waste and resource efficiency rules) Lead cross-functional working groups that bring together hardware engineering, product design, operations, supply chain, legal, product marketing, and government affairs to drive alignment on compliance strategies and timelines across the entire regulatory lifecycle — from proposal through enforcement Partner with International Environmental Initiatives (IEI), Legal, and Government Affairs to interpret draft regulations, assess compliance feasibility, develop Apple's positioning, and feed product design constraints back into the engineering organization Facilitate risk assessments to evaluate regulatory expos…