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Apple is seeking a Partner Technology Strategy Lead to build and scale the technical capability of Apple's partner ecosystem across Southeast Asia. This is a player-coach role combining partner strategy, technical leadership, team development, and hands-on delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Help strategic partners build and scale credible Apple practices with clear capability plans, technical specializations, skilled resources, and executive technical sponsorship
- Establish governance with partner CxOs, CTOs, and technical leaders; align on investments, certifications, customer priorities, capability gaps, and success measures
- Own the partner technical enablement agenda across Southeast Asia, including training, coaching, workshops, technical assessments, and certification readiness
- Increase partner capability across enterprise platforms: identity, security, device management, networking, cloud, application development, AI, and integration
- Work with partners in strategic customer engagements from discovery and architecture through demonstrations, proofs of concept, and executive conversations
- Own technical execution of large Apple deployments across enterprise, education, and government—from architecture and readiness through onboarding, deployment, adoption, and operational handover
- Identify delivery risks early, establish clear ownership and escalation paths, and remain engaged until customer success at scale
- Lead and develop the regional Partner and Technical Success team, connecting expertise to partners, markets, and customer opportunities
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in partner engineering, field engineering, enterprise architecture, technical enablement, professional services, or technology delivery
- 3+ years leading technical teams or complex virtual teams across multiple markets
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline (or equivalent practical experience)
- Experience building partner capability through enablement, coaching, technical standards, assessments, or certification programs
- Strong knowledge of enterprise platforms: identity, security, device management, networking, cloud services, applications, APIs, and integration
- Experience designing or leading large-scale device deployments across enrollment, identity, security, MDM/UEM, networking, application delivery, support, and operational handover
- Practical application-development knowledge and coding experience in at least one modern language
- Ability to understand trade-offs across native, web, and cross-platform development, APIs, security, performance, and maintainability
- Practical knowledge of AI architecture, including model selection, enterprise data, and on-device/hybrid/cloud deployment
- Hands-on technical credibility—able to lead workshops, review architectures, pressure-test designs, and demonstrate technology
- Experience engaging partner and customer executives and connecting technical capability to business outcomes
- Fluent business English required; additional Southeast Asian languages valued
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience building or scaling a technology practice within a systems integrator, service provider, reseller, or consulting partner
- Experience with partner-program competencies, technical specializations, and certification frameworks
- Knowledge of Apple platforms and deployment technologies (macOS, iOS, iPadOS, Apple Business Manager, Apple School Manager, MDM)
- Experience with Swift, Apple development frameworks, or enterprise AI development
- Experience delivering complex enterprise, education, or government deployments
- Experience leading distributed teams across countries and cultures, ideally within Southeast Asia
- Relevant Apple, enterprise architecture, cloud, identity, security, or device-management certifications
