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AIML Data Operations - Director, Business and Capacity Planning, Data Analytics

Cupertino, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-28

Core

Director leading business and capacity planning, forecasting, and data analytics to optimize workforce sizing, resource allocation, and project execution for Apple's AI/ML data operations.

Role type

Director, Business and Capacity Planning & Data Analytics

Builds

Annual capacity plans, headcount strategies, and data-driven execution targets for engineering and data annotation projects.

Domain

Technology / AI & Machine Learning / Data Operations

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Strategic forecasting, capacity planning, resource allocation, data analytics, Python, R, SQL, scikit-learn, production model building, stakeholder management, team leadership

Preferred skills

Master's degree, professional certifications

Technologies

Python, R, SQL, scikit-learn

Responsibilities

Develop annual capacity plans across engineering organizations and geographies; translate business strategy into engineering capacity requirements; balance headcount, contractors, vendors, and automation; identify capacity constraints and skill gaps; drive the annual planning process from strategy to execution; lead a team of data scientists and business analysts; optimize distribution of annotation workloads; convert project needs into quantifiable demand requirements; assess workforce capability against data annotation requirements; research and evaluate emerging forecasting tools; partner with stakeholders to define technical requirements for AI/ML models; communicate performance trends to drive efficiency.

Seniority

Director, strategic leadership & hands-on IC

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