Senior Visual Communication Designer

Summary

At Apple, innovation starts with our people, and our commitment to excellence is reflected in the clear, effective communication and exceptional creativity of our teams. We are currently seeking a Senior Visual Communication Designer to join us in developing compelling, high-quality designs for a variety of internal audiences within Apple Services Engineering, the organization that powers the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Books, and iCloud, among other services.

Description

In this role, you will drive creative initiatives including executive event branding, keynotes, and experiential design, web experiences, program branding, and design support for our many sites across the globe. You'll partner closely with other designers, comms strategists, engineering leaders, program managers, and cross-functional teams to craft materials that make technical information intuitive and impactful.

The ideal candidate blends their strong design craft with a technical mindset, narrative and editorial instincts, and the ability to focus and execute in high-stakes environments.

Responsibilities

Keynote Storytelling & Design - Partner with others to craft highly engaging, story-driven, Apple-class presentations for engineering leaders and senior executives, from boardrooms to highly-produced theater settings, and for highly technical audiences.
Executive-level Collaboration - Present to and collaborate with senior executives in the highest level of the organization. Navigate feedback with grace, working with ambiguity, and iterating quickly.
Data Visualization - Translate complex data and ideas into clean, compelling slides that help others to quickly understand architecture, workflows, and program status.
Event & Experiential Design - Create a cohesive brand experience across all touchpoints for executive events, summits, and offsites, including event branding, emails, web pages, signage, badges, and other experiential elements that meet Apple’s high standards for design and communication.
Web & Usability Design - Design, maintain, and produce assets for team websites and digital portals. Understand and champion brand, usability, and accessibility standards for web and beyond.
Design Operations - Establish and drive project milestones from concept to delivery and maintenance. Produce design roadmaps and assess bandwidth to determine project scheduling and intake.
AI-Familiar - Be curious and proactive about using AI for design work: prompting, efficiency, learning on the fly as tools and technologies evolve while always maintaining high quality standards.
Brand Standards - Evolve and maintain organization and Apple-wide brand guidelines, templates and common systems that empower non-design partners to create on-brand materials independently.

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years of professional experience in Visual Design in a fast-paced, large-scale company.
Experience providing design support for an engineering organization.
A portfolio demonstrating Apple-class design aesthetic—typography, layout, color sensibility, design fundamentals—and broad design experience: Conceptual to granular, across digital, print, presentation, and environmental media - and the ability to articulate your design process rationale.
Exceptional proficiency in creative Apple Keynote presentation design. Mastery of Sketch and/or Figma. Proficiency in Photoshop and Illustrator.
Experience presenting creative proposals and rationale to senior executives, and comfort navigating stakeholder feedback and ambiguity.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Excellent time management and project management skills: Ablity to triage competing and changing priorities in a fast-paced environment, and manage high volumes of work without sacrificing quality.
Strong understanding of Apple’s aesthetic and brand standards, and the drive to champion the brand across every touchpoint.
Familiarity with web development and UI/UX principles: user-friendly and visually appealing interfaces, asset production, responsiveness, and accessibility.
Ability to grasp unfamiliar technical content and distill into meaningful and consumable visuals.
Familiarity with AI principals for design: prompting, efficiency, responsibility/avoidance.
Discretion with sensitive and confidential information.

Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrated use of AI tools beyond image generation - accessibility checks, generating design variations or color palettes, creating efficiency tools, etc.
Proficiency in video or motion graphics tools, such as Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro
Experience with design systems: production and maintenance of asset libraries & documentation
Familiarity with CMS (web management) tools
Design Ops/project management experience
Executive coaching for presentations - tone, pace, delivery, scripting, stage presence, etc
Enthusiasm for working with technical subject matter, ideally with some familiarity with AI and software development concepts
Strong editorial instinct: ability to write or refine headlines, statements, captions, labels, and short-form copy that strengthen the visual narrative

Pay & Benefits — Cupertino, California, United States

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 $149,700 and $225,600, 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.

Application Deadline

Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.