US Industry and Ecosystem Lead, Life Sciences

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200694764-3577

Summary

The people here at Apple don't just create products. They create the kind of wonder that's revolutionized entire industries. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it!

Apple is looking for a US Industry and Ecosystem Lead to own our Life Sciences strategy across pharma and medical device, with the manufacturing floor as the beachhead, not the ceiling. Regulated production is where Apple can transform how life sciences companies work. From there, you scale across the full Apple platform, from Apple Watch and Health APIs to iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro, and build the partner ecosystem that makes it repeatable.

Description

Manufacturing is the frontier of this role. Pharma and medical device production runs on paper, legacy terminals, and disconnected systems — one of the largest, least-served openings for Apple anywhere. You will uncover and deliver on that opportunity: iPad and iPhone on the GMP line, electronic batch records and device history records, paperless quality and batch review, MES and manufacturing execution modernization, connected frontline operators, and the data integrity and validation (21 CFR Part 11, GAMP 5) that regulated production demands. You turn these into scaled, repeatable deployments across the industry’s plants.

Increasingly, this means deploying on-device intelligence and AI-assisted workflows that meet GxP validation standards — a frontier where Apple’s privacy architecture and on- device ML create a defensible edge. GxP-validated AI and FDA’s evolving AI/ML framework, alongside AI drug discovery, are the regulatory-adjacent shifts that will define this role’s strategic agenda over the next three to five years.

To scale this across the industry, you grow the partner ecosystem in ways that drive business — finding the pharma, biotech, medtech, CRO, and MES/quality-platform partners that fit Apple’s growth strategy, building joint plans that deliver, and winning executive buy-in for the big bets. You turn partnerships into repeatable, scalable wins.

You serve as Apple’s life sciences authority — reading trends early and translating Pharma 4.0, GxP-validated AI, and regulatory shifts into strategic positions that move partners and internal leaders to act.

Minimum Qualifications

• Approximately 15+ years at the intersection of technology and life sciences, in industry, consulting,

• or a key ISV.

• Direct experience with regulated manufacturing in pharma or medical device — GMP

• plant floors, quality systems, and validated environments.

• Proven track record building life sciences partner ecosystems and turning them into

• scalable, repeatable business.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep manufacturing fluency: MES, electronic batch records, device history records,

• paperless quality, and connected-worker platforms.

• Ability to read trends early — smart manufacturing / Pharma 4.0, AI drug discovery,

• digital biomarkers, cell and gene therapy — and position ahead of them.

• Fluency with FDA 21 CFR Part 11, GAMP 5, GxP, Software as a Medical Device

• (SaMD), 510(k), HIPAA, and UDI.

• Established network among senior manufacturing, quality, technology, and

• regulatory leaders in US life sciences.

• Exceptional executive communication; a compelling storyteller who moves partners

• and leaders to act.

• Advanced degree in a life sciences, engineering, regulatory, or business discipline.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.