Senior Production Designer - International Content Design

Summary
At Apple, extraordinary ideas become products, services, and experiences that shape culture. Bring passion and precision to your craft, and there's no limit to what you can build. The Content Design team supports Apple Services and defines the content experience across some of the most visible Apple products. We focus on how people consume, create, and connect across all our applications. We're looking for a detail-oriented Senior Designer focused on production design for Apple Music and Apple Music Classical. You have exceptional design skills, a knack for technical and creative problem solving, and a proven history of graphic design solutions that make user experiences clear and compelling.

Description
The ideal candidate combines exceptional design craft with strong production design instincts and genuine curiosity about how technology can expand creative possibility. You will have a highly refined eye for visual design, a deep understanding of typography, and a proven history of supporting design systems at global scale. The Senior Production Designer will also work closely with Art Directors, the Creative Director, Creative Producers, cross-functional partners and external agencies to build and scale these systems, explore new ideas, and push the possibilities of design.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day production design for Apple Music and Apple Music Classical across global touchpoints.
• Partner with Development teams to translate visual systems into production-ready frameworks and creative assets.
• Build, scale, and maintain visual systems and supporting assets.
• Oversee localisation and asset adaptation, ensuring typography and layout integrity across languages and regions.
• Establish and enforce technical specs, including file hygiene, asset pipelines, and delivery standards.
• Execute hands-on design production, including complex image compositing, retouching, and motion assets.
• Research and streamline production workflows, identifying efficiencies and exploring modern tooling or automation.
• Represent Design in cross-functional reviews alongside Art Directors, Producers, and technical partners.

Minimum Qualifications

• A portfolio demonstrating strong creative ideas across digital, social, motion and static formats.
• Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite.
• Hands-on experience with motion design.
• Deep knowledge of AI tools, creative code and future looking technology.
• Experience in Figma and/or Sketch.
• Experience with photo retouching and compositing.
• Experience working with global teams across timezones and schedules.
• Working knowledge of UI/UX and Human Interface principles.
• Demonstrable experience solving complex problems with simple solutions alongside creatives, producers, and cross-functional partners.
• Strong command of visual and communication design principles
• A clear, concise communicator with strong organisation and teamwork skills
• The ability to create work under minimal supervision, and packages and presents solutions to the wider creative and management team clearly
• A passion for graphic design, typography, photography, and illustration
• Skilled in delivering highly resolved work at the intersection of culture and design

Preferred Qualifications

• High taste level and sensitivity to visual design trends.
• Thrives in an iterative process.
• Full of ideas, able to think and execute quickly.
• Meticulous about naming files to production spec.
• Troubleshoots technical and process issues independently.
• Fluency in Apple products and services (Music, TV app, App Store, Podcasts, Apple Books, and more).
• A passion for music culture and the Apple brand.

At Apple, we're not all the same. And that's our greatest strength. We draw on the differences in who we are, what we've experienced and how we think. Because to create products that serve everyone, we believe in including everyone. Therefore, we are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally. As a registered Disability Confident employer, we will work with applicants to make any reasonable accommodations. Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal backgrounds in a manner consistent with applicable law. Learn more

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Role Number: 200692188-2114