Product Designer, tvOS - Remote Work

About the Company

Apple creates technology and digital experiences across a range of industries, with a focus on innovation, design, and environmental responsibility. The company aims to create products and services that improve everyday experiences for customers worldwide.

About the Role

Apple's tvOS Design team is seeking an experienced Product Designer to create intuitive, visually refined experiences for the big screen. The role spans the full design lifecycle, from early concept exploration and UX architecture to high-fidelity visual design, motion, and interactive prototyping.

You will lead design initiatives that shape how people interact with Apple's TV platform, working closely with product and engineering partners. The position requires strong design judgment, the ability to navigate complex challenges, and a hands-on approach to delivering polished experiences from initial concepts through final release.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact design initiatives to improve and reimagine experiences across the TV platform.
• Develop concepts and strategic UX architecture for living-room and multi-device experiences.
• Translate complex technical and product challenges into clear, intuitive, and visually engaging solutions.
• Create sketches, high-fidelity designs, motion concepts, micro-interactions, and interactive prototypes.
• Guide design work from early exploration through implementation and final release.
• Contribute to and evolve scalable design systems, maintaining consistency, accessibility, and visual quality.
• Present and validate design concepts with teams and senior leadership.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and other partners throughout the design process.
• Use modern design tools, emerging methodologies, and AI-assisted workflows to support creative exploration and iteration.
• Respond effectively to changing priorities and demanding timelines while maintaining high design standards.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of digital product design experience delivering software across consumer platforms, including TV, mobile, web, or connected devices.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design skills across UX/UI, interaction design, motion, micro-interactions, and visual execution.
• Experience taking products from early concepts through final release, including leading 0-to-1 initiatives.
• Deep experience using, contributing to, and evolving scalable design systems with attention to consistency, craft, and accessibility.
• Ability to communicate and validate design concepts through sketches, high-fidelity designs, interactive prototypes, and executive-level presentations.
• High proficiency in modern design and prototyping tools, with the ability to visualize, test, and iterate on complex ideas quickly.
• Experience incorporating AI-assisted tools and emerging design methodologies into daily workflows.
• Experience working in collaborative, iterative design environments that involve constructive feedback and continuous refinement.
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including presenting design work and rationale to large teams and senior leaders.
• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing connected experiences across hardware capabilities, physical peripherals, and digital software interfaces.
• Familiarity with or interest in emerging interfaces, spatial computing, ambient displays, conversational UI, and multimodal input.
• Understanding of how machine learning and intelligent models can support contextual interfaces, dynamic discovery, and adaptive personalization.
• Experience designing living-room or non-touch 10-foot interfaces, such as tvOS, smart TVs, game console interfaces, or remote-driven hardware systems.
• Ability to build consensus and advocate for user-centered design decisions with engineering, product, and business partners.
• Passion for Apple, its design philosophy, products, and customers.

Salary & Benefits

• Base salary range: $216,200–$324,800. Actual base pay will depend on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
• Eligibility for discretionary restricted stock unit awards.
• Opportunity to purchase Apple stock at a discount through voluntary participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
• Retirement benefits.
• Discounted products and free services.
• Reimbursement for certain education expenses, including tuition, for eligible formal education related to career development at Apple.
• Potential eligibility for discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation assistance.
• Compensation, benefits, and stock programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements and plan terms.

Equal Employment Opportunity & Accessibility

Apple is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusion and diversity. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

Apple considers accessibility a fundamental human right and aims to support an inclusive workplace, culture, benefits, and digital tools. Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants.

Additional Information

Apple accepts applications for this posting on an ongoing basis.