Art Director: Relationship-Driven Creative Leader

Energy Innovation Corp; Oxnard (CA); On-site; USD 181,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple is seeking an Art Director in Oxnard to blend Relationship Building with sharp design instincts. With 12 years in the field, you’ll translate a founder’s gut into scalable systems, localize creative for Oxnard audiences, and push teams toward compelling storytelling and quantified outcomes.

You’ll mentor others as you shape written communication and product narratives. This full-time role rewards a leader who can pair Design Thinking with hands-on QA, while ensuring all creative work

Qualifications

• 10+ years steering creative projects end to end
• Fluency in relationship building and visual storytelling
• Strong communication across email, calls, and in-person meetings

Responsibilities

• Translate a founder's gut feeling into a system someone else can extend
• Interrogate a brief until the real ask underneath surfaces
• Localize creative for Oxnard audiences without flattening the original idea
• Pair Relationship Building craft with Design Thinking to solve fuzzy creative problems
• Recast dry compliance copy as something a human might willingly read
• Reframe a tired product story until director stakeholders lean forward again
• Frame each design decision in terms the Oxnard, CA sales floor can repeat

Skills

Relationship Building

Adobe Photoshop

Storytelling

Communication

Design Thinking

Tools

Zeplin

Maze

Job description

Apple is seeking an Art Director in Oxnard to blend Relationship Building with sharp design instincts. With 12 years in the field, you’ll translate a founder’s gut into scalable systems, localize creative for Oxnard audiences, and push teams toward compelling storytelling and quantified outcomes.

You’ll mentor others as you shape written communication and product narratives. This full-time role rewards a leader who can pair Design Thinking with hands-on QA, while ensuring all creative work