Governance & Operations Lead, Infrastructure & Planning

Benefits

Parental leave

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Verification

Not verified checked Jun 13, 2026

Salary

$172K-$306K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$61,842 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+1.9% - Slower

286% above the BLS role benchmark for operations aggregate.

Posted salary is far from this role benchmark; treat it as low confidence.

Matched to SOC 11-1021 - Operations aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Operations From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

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Weekend work

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Company

Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Deadline

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About this role

Governance & Operations Lead, Infrastructure & Planning Cupertino, United States of America Apple's Platform Acceleration & Compute Efficiency (PACE) is a high-leverage team operating at the critical intersection of our ML organizations, underlying compute infrastructure, and core platform tooling. Our mission is to empower Apple's software engineering teams with efficient, scalable compute. By driving out operational friction and optimizing the broader machine learning ecosystem, we directly accelerate the pace of development across the company. We are seeking a founding Operations Lead with a passion for ML compute lifecycle management to build and own our governance and operations function. This is a ground-up opportunity to develop the roadmap and build a world-class, high level operations team. You will partner closely with tools and analytics leads to define the governance systems, telemetry frameworks, utilization dashboards, and analytical models that give PACE and Apple's ML leadership a clear, continuously updated picture of how compute is being used. Success for this role means zero project slips due to process, platform, or mis-prioritization. Mastery of this role means establishing and tracking key productivity metrics and proactively solving problems to keep those metrics consistently high. Your work will power core ML analytics both for internal development and inference serving. Most operations roles involve endless runbooks. This role is for someone who is also an engineer and artist at heart. Your operations work will empower a high-leverage team to drive decisions that have a significant impact on Apple's financial results. - Own the daily operations of the

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