Senior Services Compliance Manager

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Apple’s Services—including the App Store, iCloud, Apple Music, Apple TV, and many others—are among the most dynamic and widely used in the world. As the regulatory landscape continues to evolve, our organization requires proactive, technically rigorous leadership on the ground in China to ensure our platforms navigate emerging obligations while preserving product integrity and user trust.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager based in China to lead an in-country team responsible for driving strategic China regulatory, compliance, and partner engineering work within Apple’s Services organization. In this role, you will serve as the senior Services regulatory and compliance leader in China, managing a team that engages directly with regulators and auditors. You will develop strategy and requirements, while bridging communication with our global teams.

Apple operates services in China at a scope and scale unlike any other multinational company. The challenges we face have no playbook. Our work is exceptionally complex, ambiguous, and vital to Apple’s operations. This role is focused on how expanding data, cybersecurity, and internet regulations in China impact Apple’s services, specifically driving the practical application of regulations into systems architecture, data governance, data export, and content operations.

In response to these regulatory and compliance obligations, Apple maintains strategic and operating partnerships for several of our services in China. This role also owns in-country engagement with those partners for regulatory and compliance, collaborating closely with local operating partners, local Apple teams, and US engineering leadership to ensure our services operate reliably and securely, while maintaining compliance with evolving rules.

Minimum Qualifications

Direct experience representing technology/engineering organizations in regulatory engagements, government assessments, or technical audits with Chinese regulatory authorities or designated assessment bodies, with direct familiarity managing frameworks such as Multi-Level Protection Scheme (MLPS) or Cross-border Data Transfer Security Assessments.

8+ years of experience leading complex technical programs or engineering initiatives in cloud, distributed platforms, or internet services.

4+ years of formal people management experience, successfully leading and developing senior technical or technical program management professionals.

4+ years of dedicated experience developing technical, operational, and business requirements based on legal, regulatory, cybersecurity, or data governance requirements.

Demonstrated technical competence evaluating services architectures, backend data flows, cloud infrastructure, or data residency/storage models.

Proven track record managing and negotiating complex technical, operational, or business relationships with external strategic partners, platform operators, or service providers.

Complete bilingual professional fluency in Mandarin Chinese and English (written and spoken), with proven mastery leading technical reviews, negotiating complex issues, and presenting to executive and government audiences in both languages.

Demonstrated excellence in communicating with and influencing senior leadership across global engineering, legal, business, product, and operations organizations across time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with local cloud infrastructure, third-party data center operations, and joint operating models in China.

Experience building and scaling an in-region technical compliance or regulatory engineering team within a global technology company.

Direct experience handling regulatory filings and compliance reviews for internet information services, algorithms, or content delivery systems in China.

Deep domain experience with consumer internet platforms, cloud infrastructure, or identity/account architectures operating at massive global scale.

Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical technical leadership experience.