Product Designer, Apple Weather

Apple • Culver City, CA

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About The Position

Apple’s Applications group is seeking a senior product designer who brings simple and beautiful experiences to life. This seasoned designer has a blend of visual and interaction design skills and will work on some of the most beloved apps on our platforms. You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of designers to craft experiences that shape industries and inform people’s lives everyday. In this role, you will design for delight — creating clear, high-impact experiences that are welcoming and intuitive. You’ll work on information architectures, navigation models, and interfaces that shape the very way people perceive and understand our products. You’ll advocate for the human experience as you craft innovative, new interactions. Leading with empathy, you’ll map out user flows, use cases, and systems that make even our newest products immediately recognizable, inclusive, and fun. You be able to take complex and sometimes ambiguous problem spaces and simplify them into clear stories and actionable proposals. The product designer will be entrusted to dial into the details while also seeing the bigger picture — safeguarding a seamless experience from end to end. You’ll collaborate with your teammates to push concepts further, and your unique voice will make the final output stronger. You’ll also convey all the thought and decisions that went into your work to a broad audience as you diplomatically navigate it through various review cycles, building consensus along the way. Finally, you will work alongside engineers and QA to shepherd a great final product to our customers hands.

Requirements

• 5+ years of design experience in a design studio or as a product designer.
• Solid portfolio and breadth of work that demonstrates skill and ability to confidently speak to work.
• Critical thinker who is imaginative, creative, and inventive.
• Great collaborator who inspires their teammates.
• Ability to apply principles of visual design (hierarchy, balance, contrast) to new interfaces.
• Adept at visualizing, simplifying and representing data in a beautiful, intuitive and communicative way to tell a story.
• Good understanding of design systems and patterns.
• Proficient with design tools such as Sketch, Illustrator, or otherwise.
• Passionate about making every detail count, but can see the bigger picture at the same time.
• Strong presenter, clear communicator, compelling storyteller.
• Ability to navigate competing interests and requests with nuance, grace and diplomacy.
• Comfortable with loose structure and ambiguity.

Nice To Haves

• Interested in and excited about weather and science!

Responsibilities

• Design for delight — creating clear, high-impact experiences that are welcoming and intuitive.
• Work on information architectures, navigation models, and interfaces that shape the very way people perceive and understand our products.
• Advocate for the human experience as you craft innovative, new interactions.
• Map out user flows, use cases, and systems that make even our newest products immediately recognizable, inclusive, and fun.
• Take complex and sometimes ambiguous problem spaces and simplify them into clear stories and actionable proposals.
• Dial into the details while also seeing the bigger picture — safeguarding a seamless experience from end to end.
• Collaborate with teammates to push concepts further.
• Convey all the thought and decisions that went into your work to a broad audience as you diplomatically navigate it through various review cycles, building consensus along the way.
• Work alongside engineers and QA to shepherd a great final product to our customers hands.

What This Job Offers

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