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The Infrastructure and Planning team within Software Engineering Operations is seeking an accomplished leader to drive Business Operations and Planning for the AI organization. If you think analytically and are passionate about applying financial, operational, and planning expertise to complex challenges, we'd love to hear from you! This strategic role enables coordination across the AI organization - spanning budget planning and operational execution in close partnership with engineering leadership. The ideal candidate will align resources and budget to critical development projects and initiatives. This involves oversight to planning for the infrastructure and data required for model training and development with a focus on optimization, utilization, and connecting engineering strategy to the financial investment.
Description
Lead a Business Operations team that drives internal budget planning for the AI organization, including infrastructure capacity management (supply & demand planning for both 1P & 3P cloud resources), data acquisitions (licensed data, vendor-managed data), workforce management (both internal and external headcount) and related processes to ensure finance and engineering leadership understand how such investments tie back to model strategy or SW roadmap.
Decisions on workload prioritization and resource allocation will be guided by a vision to accelerate development, strengthen financial processes and unlock operational efficiencies. This role requires a deep understanding of financial processes, technology development, and regulatory compliance, as a proven track record of delivering results through cross-team collaboration.
This team will also be responsible for oversight of strategic site planning and employee communications for the AI organization, ensuring that key initiatives across the organizations are aligned to and a location strategy that enables retaining top ML talent.","responsibilities":"Build and maintain strong partnerships with cross-functional teams across compute and cloud infrastructure, business operations, procurement, finance, and engineering.
Partner closely with Finance to develop and maintain budgets, including leading the annual budget planning cycle.
Prioritization & Portfolio Management: Lead reporting and analysis of development and capacity needs to drive prioritization and de-prioritization decisions across the portfolio, balancing innovation, compliance, and operational efficiency.
Oversee headcount and departmental budget management, providing rigorous financial oversight, strategic workforce planning, and optimal resource allocation to support operational efficiency and growth.
Space & Facilities Planning: Oversee organizational space planning and site strategy, partnering with Real Estate & Facilities to optimize footprint allocation and support evolving team growth in strategic locations with ML talent.
Organizational Communications: partner with Employee Experience and Organizational VP to drive employee communications across the AI organization, keeping team members aligned, informed, and connected to leadership goals, strategic priorities, and key initiatives.
Hire, develop, and retain top talent, while maintaining strong visibility and communication across the broader organization.
Preferred Qualifications
MBA and/or CPA, with strong understanding of Finance policies and SOX compliance.
Technical expertise or deep understanding of ML development.
Passion for software development and AI/ML, with a consistent track record of operational results.
An inspiring leader who fosters collaboration across a multitude of initiatives.
Experience leading and developing high-performing teams in a fast-paced, dynamic, and innovative environment.
Proven track record of collaborating and influencing across teams and organizations.
Minimum Qualifications
15+ years of relevant experience in financial operations, business planning, or technology operations leadership.
Leadership experience in financial and budget oversight roles within large technology organizations.
Ability to influence and align stakeholders across organizations.
Management experience guiding complex initiatives and teams across multidisciplinary functions, including engineering, operations, cloud infrastructure, finance, and legal.
Strong problem-solving ability with outstanding decision quality, grounded in data-driven decision-making.
Deep knowledge of financial systems and business models, as well as related software and machine learning (ML) engineering development processes.
Excellent understanding of business and financial operations, with the ability to drive development of business tools and analytics that improve organizational efficiency.
Proven experience with data reporting, coupled with excellent analytical skills and meticulous attention to detail.
Exceptional communication skills, including experience presenting complex topics to senior leadership.
Ability to lead teams through ambiguity, organizational change, and evolving priorities.
Pay & Benefits
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $250,800 and $404,500, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
The Infrastructure and Planning team within Software Engineering Operations is seeking an accomplished leader to drive Business Operations and Planning for the AI organization. If you think analytically and are passionate about applying financial, operational, and planning expertise to complex challenges, we'd love to hear from you! This strategic role enables coordination across the AI organization - spanning budget planning and operational execution in close partnership with engineering leadership. The ideal candidate will align resources and budget to critical development projects and initiatives. This involves oversight to planning for the infrastructure and data required for model training and development with a focus on optimization, utilization, and connecting engineering strategy to the financial investment.
Description
Lead a Business Operations team that drives internal budget planning for the AI organization, including infrastructure capacity management (supply & demand planning for both 1P & 3P cloud resources), data acquisitions (licensed data, vendor-managed data), workforce management (both internal and external headcount) and related processes to ensure finance and engineering leadership understand how such investments tie back to model strategy or SW roadmap.
Decisions on workload prioritization and resource allocation will be guided by a vision to accelerate development, strengthen financial processes and unlock operational efficiencies. This role requires a deep understanding of financial processes, technology development, and regulatory compliance, as a proven track record of delivering results through cross-team collaboration.
This team will also be responsible for oversight of strategic site planning and employee communications for the AI organization, ensuring that key initiatives across the organizations are aligned to and a location strategy that enables retaining top ML talent.","responsibilities":"Build and maintain strong partnerships with cross-functional teams across compute and cloud infrastructure, business operations, procurement, finance, and engineering.
Partner closely with Finance to develop and maintain budgets, including leading the annual budget planning cycle.
Prioritization & Portfolio Management: Lead reporting and analysis of development and capacity needs to drive prioritization and de-prioritization decisions across the portfolio, balancing innovation, compliance, and operational efficiency.
Oversee headcount and departmental budget management, providing rigorous financial oversight, strategic workforce planning, and optimal resource allocation to support operational efficiency and growth.
Space & Facilities Planning: Oversee organizational space planning and site strategy, partnering with Real Estate & Facilities to optimize footprint allocation and support evolving team growth in strategic locations with ML talent.
Organizational Communications: partner with Employee Experience and Organizational VP to drive employee communications across the AI organization, keeping team members aligned, informed, and connected to leadership goals, strategic priorities, and key initiatives.
Hire, develop, and retain top talent, while maintaining strong visibility and communication across the broader organization.
Preferred Qualifications
MBA and/or CPA, with strong understanding of Finance policies and SOX compliance.
Technical expertise or deep understanding of ML development.
Passion for software development and AI/ML, with a consistent track record of operational results.
An inspiring leader who fosters collaboration across a multitude of initiatives.
Experience leading and developing high-performing teams in a fast-paced, dynamic, and innovative environment.
Proven track record of collaborating and influencing across teams and organizations.
Minimum Qualifications
15+ years of relevant experience in financial operations, business planning, or technology operations leadership.
Leadership experience in financial and budget oversight roles within large technology organizations.
Ability to influence and align stakeholders across organizations.
Management experience guiding complex initiatives and teams across multidisciplinary functions, including engineering, operations, cloud infrastructure, finance, and legal.
Strong problem-solving ability with outstanding decision quality, grounded in data-driven decision-making.
Deep knowledge of financial systems and business models, as well as related software and machine learning (ML) engineering development processes.
Excellent understanding of business and financial operations, with the ability to drive development of business tools and analytics that improve organizational efficiency.
Proven experience with data reporting, coupled with excellent analytical skills and meticulous attention to detail.
Exceptional communication skills, including experience presenting complex topics to senior leadership.
Ability to lead teams through ambiguity, organizational change, and evolving priorities.
Pay & Benefits
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $250,800 and $404,500, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in business planning manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, business administration, economics, or a related field
- Experience building financial models, forecasts, and long-range plans in Excel or Google Sheets
- Proficiency with business intelligence and planning tools such as Anaplan, Adaptive Insights, or Tableau
- Demonstrated ability to translate data analysis into actionable strategic recommendations for senior leadership
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with finance, operations, sales, and product teams
- MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred for senior or director-level business planning manager roles
Tips for Your Business Planning Manager Job Search
Quantify planning impact on your resume
Business planning managers are hired to drive decisions, so your resume needs to show outcomes tied to your planning work. Replace task descriptions with results: forecast accuracy improvements, cost reductions from scenario analysis, or revenue targets influenced by your annual operating plan.
Tailor your resume to the planning cycle
Some openings center on budgeting and long-range forecasting, others on go-to-market strategy or capacity planning. Read the job description for which planning cycle they emphasize, then lead your bullet points with the matching work from your own experience.
Target companies mid-planning cycle
Hiring for business planning managers often accelerates when a company is entering its annual budgeting or strategic planning season. Filter openings by recency and prioritize roles posted in the months just before those cycles, when teams are building out capacity fastest.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists business planning manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a structured case for the interview
Business planning manager interviews frequently include a case or take-home scenario where you build a financial model or present a strategic recommendation. Practice structuring your answer around the problem, your assumptions, your analysis, and a clear recommendation with trade-offs named explicitly.
Negotiate scope, not just compensation
When you reach the offer stage, ask which planning processes you will own end-to-end versus support. Business planning manager roles vary widely in decision-making authority, and clarifying scope before you accept positions you to negotiate a title and level that matches the actual responsibility.
Business Planning Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most business planning managers?
The companies hiring the most business planning managers right now include Lockheed Martin, BKF Engineers, and Visa, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially concentrated in technology, healthcare systems, and large consumer goods companies running active planning and forecasting cycles.
How many business planning manager jobs are remote?
About 76% of business planning manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, making it one of the more location-flexible management roles in finance and strategy. Strategic planning and FP&A-adjacent roles tend to be the most remote-eligible, while roles that require close coordination with operations or supply chain teams more often require on-site presence.
How do you become a business planning manager?
Most business planning managers start in financial analysis, corporate strategy, or operations roles where they build experience with forecasting, budgeting, and cross-functional planning. From there, taking ownership of a planning process end-to-end, presenting recommendations to senior leadership, and demonstrating that your analysis shaped decisions are the steps that lead to a manager-level role.
Can you get a business planning manager job with limited experience?
Yes, but you need to show ownership, not just participation. Candidates with limited experience break in by pointing to a specific planning process they led, a model they built from scratch, or a recommendation they made that was acted on. Roles at smaller companies or in associate business planning manager titles are the most accessible entry points.
What does the business planning manager interview process look like?
The process typically runs three to four stages: an initial recruiter screen focused on background and fit, a hiring manager conversation covering your planning experience and how you partner with stakeholders, a case or take-home exercise asking you to build a model or frame a strategic recommendation, and a final panel with cross-functional leaders from finance, strategy, or operations.
Where can I find and apply to business planning manager jobs?
You can find and apply to business planning manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the United States. Search the available roles, find the ones that match your background and target industry, and apply directly to each listing.
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