Associate Creative Director, Experience Design

Associate Creative Director, Experience Design

Marcom is the creatively led global team that shapes Apple’s consumer-facing marketing. We ensure the flawless development and execution of world-class communications across every touchpoint. Every day, hundreds of millions of people engage with Apple through our work — discovering, learning, and connecting with products they love. We define the strategy and creative that make those interactions simple, engaging, and distinctly Apple. The Interactive Experiences group designs the end-to-end digital experience of Apple’s marketing and product ecosystem — across web, app, in-store, and emerging platforms. We work across disciplines and organizations to craft experiences that connect customers meaningfully with Apple’s products and services.

Description

The Associate Creative Director (ACD) of Experience Design leads digital initiatives across Apple’s ecosystem — from commerce to in-store experiences. This role drives vision and guides multidisciplinary teams to craft elegant, customer‑first solutions that balance design excellence with technical and business realities. An expert on the customer, the ACD translates insights into focused experience strategies and design artifacts — from journey frameworks and opportunity maps to UX concepts and prototypes. They are the connective tissue that ensures the strategy and user intent is reflected in final deliverables. This role partners closely with Business, Product, Engineering, and Product Marketing teams to align vision, priorities, and measures of success.

Responsibilities

• Define clear problem statements and a strategic point of view across projects, rooted in customer insights, opportunity areas, and experience principles that guide meaningful, connected digital experiences across Apple’s ecosystem.
• Contribute to planning and roadmap discussions to inform prioritization, resourcing, and sequencing.
• Provide thoughtful creative direction and feedback on deliverables such as user flows, system maps, wireframes, prototypes, and presentations to ensure design intent, scalability and clarity, while championing design excellence.
• Present creative work and insights with clarity and conviction, connecting design decisions to insights, principles, strategic objectives, design intent and system thinking.
• Recommend and support research methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative, to inform and validate experience direction. Helps own facilitating research, synthesis and final read‑out.
• Mentors and directs junior team members to help them with their professional development and improve their work.
• Actively participate in studio wide initiatives for culture, process and innovation.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

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 $182,600 and $274,500, 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.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.

Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.

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