Apple’s vice president of product marketing for Apple Watch, AirPods, Health, and Home, has retired after 31 years at the company. Stan Ng publicly announced his departure on LinkedIn on Thursday, sharing an image of the sunrise at Apple Park, reports Bloomberg.
After 31 years at Apple, today was my last day,” he wrote. “It was a joy to work at Apple and I truly loved what I did.” Apple’s latest stock vesting date took place on Wednesday, and many employees who retire or leave tend to do so around that time. Apple’s head of machine learning and AI, John Giannandrea’s time at Apple also officially came to an end this week.
Ng first joined Apple in 1995 as a senior systems engineer, while Steve Jobs was still in the wilderness before he returned to head Apple. Ng later moved into Mac-related roles, before becoming one of the key marketing executives to push the OG iPod. He later appeared in product launch videos, including the 2007 iPod unveiling. He went on to supervise marketing for the iPhone and Apple Watch, before leading Apple’s Home initiatives.
Ng reported to Bob Borchers, who oversees product marketing under senior vice president Greg Joswiak. Erik Treski, Apple’s worldwide product marketing executive for AirPods and Home will assume a portion of Ng’s responsibilities. It hasn’t yet been announced as to how the rest of his responsibilities will be divided up.
Ng’s exit is just the latest in a wave of senior executive exits in recent months. In addition to Ng and the previously mentioned John Giannandrea, former COO Jeff Williams retired last year, design chief Alan Dye jumped over to Meta Platforms at the end of 2025, environment and government affairs head Lisa Jackson retired earlier this year, and it has been announced that general counsel Katherine Adams is set to leave later this year.
Ng’s departure makes him the third executive connected to Apple’s health and fitness push to leave the company. Jay Blahnik, head of Fitness+, is departing due to an investigation and lawsuit related to allegations about his behavior.