Brand Creative Lead, Product & Design - Apple Music, TV, Podcasts

Apple • Culver City, CA

6h

About The Position

Imagine what you could create at Apple. At Apple, extraordinary ideas become products, services, and experiences that shape culture. Bring passion and precision to your craft, and there’s no limit to what you can build. The Product and Design team defines the brands and interactive experience across some of Apple’s most visible products influencing how millions of people discover and experience entertainment, music and more. We’re looking for a modern creative leader — a communicator and problem-solver with a multidisciplinary mindset. Someone who thrives working across media types, screens, formats, and technologies. As a creative you should bring deep experience in building brands from the product out, paired with a strong design sensibility and fluency in product thinking. As a team leader you can build a practice that consistently yields best in class creative. As a manager you grow, mentor and inspire those around you.

We’re looking for a visionary Brand Creative leader who combines expansive thinking with rigorous craft. This person operates at both altitude and detail. They define the narrative, build the system, and ensure the execution meets the standard. They believe brand is a strategic lever — not just an aesthetic layer — and they use it to shape culture internally and externally. From ideation through delivery, this role spans the full creative lifecycle. They will set the bar for quality, define the brand practice, and build a high-performing creative team aligned to clear principles.

Requirements

• 12+ years of work experience with a focus on brand building and brand design across a variety of categories.
• Strong team builder and manager of best in class talent.
• Understands how to work in a matrixed organization, partnering with other functional teams like photography, video and production design.
• Experience in crafting cohesive brand visuals, films and guidelines.
• Experience partnering with UI, product and marketing teams to build holistic brands from the product out.
• Experience working on brands in the context of digital product and services.
• Enthusiasm and history working in an iterative design process, motivated by group critique.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and ability to present work to large groups and executives.
• Experience hiring, managing and growing talent.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building brands for sports brand, music or other cultural categories.
• Worked within the entertainment / streaming space and familiar with digital products and services.
• Passionate for Apple, its products, and its customers.
• Able to deliver highly-resolved work at the intersection of culture and design.
• Have an advanced understanding of what makes content engaging and successful across platforms and audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define the narrative, build the system, and ensure the execution meets the standard.
• Use brand as a strategic lever to shape culture internally and externally.
• Operate across the full creative lifecycle from ideation through delivery.
• Set the bar for quality.
• Define the brand practice.
• Build a high-performing creative team aligned to clear principles.
• Grow, mentor and inspire those around you.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed