Art Director, Design

Apple • Los Angeles, CA

2d

About The Position

Marcom LA is Apple’s Global Marketing Communications group creating and overseeing the world-class marketing and advertising driving Apple's rapidly-growing Services sector including Apple Sports, Apple Music, App Store, Apple Pay, Apple Arcade, Apple News, Apple Books, Apple Podcasts, Apple Maps, iCloud, Creator Studio and more. Whether we’re launching the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show, launching F1 on Apple TV, sharing the next generation of games in the App Store, or celebrating the seamless joy of using Apple Pay, Marcom LA’s mission is to build brand love for Apple every day. We do that with inspiring creative, a culture-first mindset, and the belief our Services make our incredible Apple devices even better. The Marcom LA Design team is a creative team of designers, art directors and motion art directors—thinkers and makers who focus on ideas as much craft. We create identities that are unmistakably Apple, rooted in the DNA of its products and experiences, and expressed with simplicity, elegance, and purpose.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building brand identities and campaigns, with design as a core discipline.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong design principles, art direction, typography, color, and visual communication across identity or campaign work.
• Industry experience as a designer and art director, contributing to the creative development process from concept to final production.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign).
• Strong understanding of how identity systems scale and translate across multiple applications, formats, and contexts.
• Bachelor's degree in design or equivalent industry experience.

Nice To Haves

• Outstanding conceptual design and problem-solving skills.
• Experience pitching and executing original design concepts from ideation through final delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to develop cohesive visual languages and extend them across multi-channel campaigns and applications.
• Experience designing within established brand systems, with strong instincts for where to push and where to stay consistent.
• Strong visual storytelling instinct—able to use imagery, typography, and composition to communicate ideas with clarity and purpose.
• Skilled collaborator—earns trust quickly, engages confidently with competing creative perspectives, and builds alignment without diluting the work.
• Clear communicator, able to articulate a strong rationale for creative decisions in presentations and reviews.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and working toward a clear direction without a fully defined brief.
• Versatility across brand identity and campaign design, combining systematic thinking with high-level craft.

Responsibilities

• Crafts identities and identity-led campaigns for Apple’s services, products, and events—bringing ideas to life through through conceptual rigor, hands-on ideation, and systems thinking.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior