Senior Visual Communication Designer
At Apple, innovation starts with our people, and our commitment to excellence is reflected in the clear, effective communication and exceptional creativity of our teams. We are currently seeking a Senior Visual Communication Designer to join us in developing compelling, high-quality designs for a variety of internal audiences within Apple Services Engineering, the organization that powers the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Books, and iCloud, among other services.
In this role, you will drive creative initiatives including executive event branding, keynotes, and experiential design, web experiences, program branding, and design support for our many sites across the globe. You'll partner closely with other designers, comms strategists, engineering leaders, program managers, and cross-functional teams to craft materials that make technical information intuitive and impactful.
The ideal candidate blends their strong design craft with a technical mindset, narrative and editorial instincts, and the ability to focus and execute in high-stakes environments.
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional experience in Visual Design in a fast-paced, large-scale company.
- Experience providing design support for an engineering organization.
- A portfolio demonstrating Apple-class design aesthetic—typography, layout, color sensibility, design fundamentals—and broad design experience: Conceptual to granular, across digital, print, presentation, and environmental media - and the ability to articulate your design process rationale.
- Exceptional proficiency in creative Apple Keynote presentation design. Mastery of Sketch and/or Figma. Proficiency in Photoshop and Illustrator.
- Experience presenting creative proposals and rationale to senior executives, and comfort navigating stakeholder feedback and ambiguity.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Excellent time management and project management skills: Ablity to triage competing and changing priorities in a fast-paced environment, and manage high volumes of work without sacrificing quality.
- Strong understanding of Apple’s aesthetic and brand standards, and the drive to champion the brand across every touchpoint.
- Familiarity with web development and UI/UX principles: user-friendly and visually appealing interfaces, asset production, responsiveness, and accessibility.
- Ability to grasp unfamiliar technical content and distill into meaningful and consumable visuals.
- Familiarity with AI principals for design: prompting, efficiency, responsibility/avoidance.
- Discretion with sensitive and confidential information.
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated use of AI tools beyond image generation - accessibility checks, generating design variations or color palettes, creating efficiency tools, etc.
- Proficiency in video or motion graphics tools, such as Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro
- Experience with design systems: production and maintenance of asset libraries & documentation
- Familiarity with CMS (web management) tools
- Design Ops/project management experience
- Executive coaching for presentations - tone, pace, delivery, scripting, stage presence, etc
- Enthusiasm for working with technical subject matter, ideally with some familiarity with AI and software development concepts
- Strong editorial instinct: ability to write or refine headlines, statements, captions, labels, and short-form copy that strengthen the visual narrative