

Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their best work. Our community is made up of every kind of individual: artists and designers, engineers and scientists, thinkers and doers. Together, we create things and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined — and now can’t imagine living without.
We rely on our employees’ diverse backgrounds and perspectives to spark innovation. That’s why we hire inclusively, and why we do more than simply believe in pay equity — we’ve actually achieved 100 percent pay equity for women and underrepresented minorities in every country where we operate. And today, 45 percent of our leaders under 30 are women. We also choose partners who make diversity a priority, creating opportunities for the next generation. Some of our STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) partners include AnitaB.org (Grace Hopper Celebration), Girls Who Code, National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), TECHNOLOchicas, Rewriting the Code, and Society of Women Engineers, just to name a few.
We also want to encourage employees to share their insights, knowledge, and cultures with each other. Diversity Network Associations (DNAs) do just that. Today more than 25,000 Apple employees belong to these employee groups, which represent different ethnicities, religions, orientations, and genders, as well as Veterans. For instance, the Women@Apple DNA is committed to fostering a community that attracts, empowers, and develops women at Apple. By engaging with others and learning from one another, we’re better positioned to do our life’s best work.
Deirdre O’Brien is Apple’s senior vice president of Retail + People, reporting to CEO Tim Cook.
As the leader of Apple’s retail and online teams, Deirdre supports their work to enrich the lives of millions of Apple customers every year. With a laser focus on the connection between customers and the people and processes that serve them, Deirdre and her team create retail experiences that educate and inspire.
In her role leading the People team, Deirdre works to help Apple connect, develop, and care for its employees — and to help those employees do the best work of their lives. Her teams oversee a broad range of functions, including talent development and Apple University, recruiting, employee relations and experience, business partnership, benefits, compensation, and inclusion and diversity.
A 30-year Apple veteran, Deirdre holds a bachelor’s degree in Operations Management from Michigan State University and an MBA from San Jose State University.
We’re a diverse collective of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including Apple TV, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.
Every new product we invent, service we create, or store we open is the result of people working together to make each other’s ideas stronger. That happens here because every one of us strives toward a common goal — creating the best customer experiences. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it. This is where your work can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own.
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