Product Designer, Marcom

About the position

Marcom is the creatively-led global team that oversees Apple's consumer facing marketing. We ensure the flawless development and execution of world-class communications across all medias and platforms. Every day, hundreds of millions of Apple customers around the world interact with our products. We drive the strategy and creative work that provide both new and existing customers with simple, engaging and inspiring marketing experiences. Marcom's Special Projects Group is a research and development studio, prototyping forward-thinking experiences that leverage emerging technologies to advance Apple's global marketing communications. This nimble, multi-disciplinary team of creative technologists, artists and designers works together to drive innovation in rapidly evolving fields such as spatial and generative computing. We partner with teams across the company to evolve how we work with emerging technologies to improve our internal workflows and customer facing experiences.

Responsibilities

• Craft stunning visual designs and prototype world-class product experiences leveraging spatial and generative computing, user interface principles, materials, inputs, and physics.
• Quickly grasp and distill highly complex, ambiguous concepts and turn them into simple, useful and delightful product experiences.
• Present and solicit feedback on designs, prototypes and concepts with our cross functional partners, stakeholders and executives.
• Proactively create and maintain best practices and processes that collectively raise quality and productivity of team output.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in product or experience design
• A portfolio that demonstrates projects across a variety of platforms such as mobile, spatial, web or others
• Ability to clearly communicate concepts and designs through prototypes, sketches, high-fidelity comps, and presentations. Highly skilled and fast in any tools you need to visualize your ideas and deliver the work
• Excellent visual design and conceptual skills accompanied by the ability to guide, evaluate, and redirect creative development of a multidisciplinary team
• Bachelor's degree

Nice-to-haves

• Experience designing products for virtual, augmented, or mixed reality using tools like Blender, Unity or equivalent software
• Experience designing with generative AI technologies like LLMs, and Visual AI prototyping tools like ComfyUI
• Ability to rapidly adapt and implement new technologies in service of project goals. Comfortable in a design space where experience goals can be both enabled and constrained by new technologies.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to build trust and influence while advocating for your ideas.
• Ability to cut through ambiguity and find an elegant path forward, despite uncertainty or challenges.
• Intrinsic ability to share knowledge and inspire others, driving adoption of new technologies and workflows.
• Degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• A range of discounted products and free services
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
• Relocation assistance
• Opportunity to participate in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs
• Eligibility for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
• Ability to purchase Apple stock at a discount through Employee Stock Purchase Plan