Software Portfolio Strategist

Job description

Business Operations, Employee Engagement, and Strategy is part of IS&T and shapes the strategy, operations, and culture of IS&T. The team oversees business planning, IS&T's partnership strategy across Apple, and the technology tools that support the organization's day-to-day operations. This team also leads IS&T's enterprise generative AI strategy and manages compliance across systems. Through its communications and employee programs, it champions the growth, inclusion, and development of everyone in IS&T and drives the standard for IS&T brand and product communications across Apple.

Apple's IS&T Software Asset Management team, within the Office of the CIO, governs a $450M+ software portfolio spanning 1300+ products and 250+ vendors. Our mandate is to enable and create value for Apple's business — ensuring every software investment delivers measurable impact through total cost of ownership (TCO) optimization, strategic lifecycle management, and cross-functional partnership. We are hiring a Software Portfolio Strategist who thinks like a strategist, moves like an operator, and influences like a consultant — someone who sees a renewal as an inflection point, not a transaction, and who treats data as a language for driving enterprise decisions.

This role is for someone who is restlessly curious about where software spend is headed, why it is growing, and what levers actually exist to shape it.