Product Designer

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock programs

Relocation

Tuition reimbursement

Benefits including medical/dental

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Product Designer for the Ads team to shape advertiser experiences from exploration through launch and refinement.

You will partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, content designers, and other designers to understand customer needs and develop cohesive solutions across a connected platform. You will design end-to-end workflows, prototypes, and detailed designs, ensuring accessibility and high-quality shipped experiences while evolving design system patterns

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design experience with strong interaction and visual design.
• Experience designing complex workflows for web-based products or professional tools.
• Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear concepts and carry a design through execution.
• Strong prototyping skills and ability to communicate ideas.
• Experience collaborating with product and engineering teams.
• Understanding accessibility and inclusive design principles.
• Strong communication and openness to feedback.

Responsibilities

• Design clear workflows for advertisers, including campaign creation and management.
• Translate requirements into intuitive flows, interactions, and assets.
• Prototype early to evaluate ideas and align partners before implementation.
• Collaborate with engineering to address constraints and deliver high-quality experiences.
• Apply and evolve shared design system patterns across Apple’s advertising tools.
• Use research, data, and feedback to refine solutions.
• Explain design decisions clearly and surface tradeoffs.

Skills

Interaction design

Visual design

Problem solving

Tools

Sketch

Keynote

Job description

At Apple, we create experiences that help people do more with technology. The Ads & BusinessDesign team brings that same care to the tools businesses use to connect with customersacross Apple.We’re looking for a Product Designer to help shape Apple Ads. You’ll make sophisticatedadvertising workflows feel clear and approachable, from creating campaigns and managingcreative to understanding performance and deciding what to do next. You’ll work onexperiences used by businesses of different sizes, helping them grow while giving themconfidence and control.Our team is also exploring how intelligence can make these tools more useful: turning insightinto action, simplifying complex work, and helping advertisers make informed decisions. We’relooking for someone who can deliver excellent product experiences today and help us explorewhat comes next.

Description

As a Product Designer on the Ads team, you’ll own meaningful parts of the advertiserexperience from early exploration through launch and refinement. You’ll partner closely withproduct managers, engineers, researchers, content designers, and other designers tounderstand customer needs, define the right problems, and develop solutions that work acrossa connected platform.You’ll use flows, prototypes, and detailed designs to make ideas tangible and testable. You’llbring care to interaction, visual design, accessibility, and the quality of the shipped experience.You’ll also help evolve shared patterns so that the platform becomes more coherent as it grows.This role is well suited to a designer who enjoys untangling complexity, has strong craft, and iscomfortable moving between near-term product needs and longer-term possibilities.

Responsibilities

• Design clear, effective workflows for advertisers, including areas such as campaign creation
• and management, creative, reporting, insights, and account experiences.
• Translate complex requirements and customer needs into intuitive flows, interactions,
• prototypes, and detailed designs.
• Explore how recommendations, automation, and conversational or agentic experiences could
• help advertisers understand performance and take action while maintaining clarity, control,
• and trust.
• Prototype early and often to evaluate ideas, align partners, and resolve interaction questions
• before implementation.
• Partner with engineering throughout development to address constraints, define behavior
• and states, and deliver a high-quality experience.
• Apply and help improve shared design system patterns across Apple’s advertising tools.
• Use research, customer feedback, product data, and critique to challenge assumptions and
• refine solutions.
• Communicate design rationale clearly, surface tradeoffs early, and contribute constructively

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design experience and a portfolio demonstrating strong interaction and
• visual design, clear problem solving, and shipped work.
• Experience designing complex workflows for web-based products, professional tools, or
• comparable software.
• Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear concepts and carry a design through detailed
• execution.
• Strong prototyping skills and the ability to choose the right fidelity to explore and
• communicate an idea.
• Experience collaborating closely with product and engineering partners through
• implementation.
• Understanding of accessibility and inclusive design principles.
• Strong communication skills, openness to feedback, and the ability to explain design
• decisions to varied audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with advertising, analytics, commerce, business tools, or other data-rich
• products.
• Experience designing across multiple connected workflows or a growing product platform.
• Experience working with and contributing to a design system.
• Interest or experience in designing useful applications of AI, recommendations, automation,
• or conversational interfaces.
• Ability to balance immediate product delivery with exploration of future experiences.
• Familiarity with Apple’s design tools and presentation practices, including Sketch and
• Keynote.

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 $150,400 and $225,300, 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

At Apple, we believe accessibility is a fundamental human right. You’ll find that idea reflected in everything here — in our culture, our benefits and our digital tools. By welcoming as many perspectives as possible, we help you build a career where you feel like you belong. Learn about accessibility in Apple’s workplace Learn about reasonable accommodations for job applicants

Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.