UX Design Lead: Xcode & AI Developer Tools

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 206,000 - 356,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Employee stock programs

Tuition reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Discounted products and services

Career development resources

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino is seeking a UX Design Manager to lead a team shaping the user experience for Xcode and AI developer tools. You will define vision, mentor designers, and partner with engineering to ship high-impact experiences.

The role blends hands-on design with people leadership, requires deep collaboration across disciplines, and a passion for crafting products that empower developers to build and ship software using AI capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experienced in a highly technical domain.
• Actively engaged with AI dev tools and excited by what they make possible.
• Drives product vision that unites technical requirements with user focus.
• Ability to build strong partnerships, influence across organizations, and lead a team to deliver high quality outcomes.
• Portfolio demonstrating product design leadership, creative problem solving, and high quality visual design.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a small team of designers, providing creative direction grounded in your own expertise and mentorship that helps each person develop and deliver.
• Lead a team through a period of rapid change — building the design strategies, processes, and culture needed to navigate an industry that is shifting faster than any roadmap can predict.
• Carry your own design work on key projects while guiding direction across the broader team.
• Give substantive design feedback rooted in expertise — not just facilitation — deliver the difficult conversations when needed, and know when to draw on specialists on your team.
• Understand what motivates each designer on your team, pair people with work and partners where they can do their best, and drive their performance and career development over time.
• Build trusted partnerships with engineering managers and cross-functional leaders, navigating organizational complexity to get projects what they need to move forward.
• Communicate and influence across disciplines and levels, helping designers on your team advocate for user-focused outcomes while balancing real constraints.

Skills

Team leadership

UX design leadership

AI tools familiarity

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership portfolio

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino is seeking a UX Design Manager to lead a team shaping the user experience for Xcode and AI developer tools. You will define vision, mentor designers, and partner with engineering to ship high-impact experiences.

The role blends hands-on design with people leadership, requires deep collaboration across disciplines, and a passion for crafting products that empower developers to build and ship software using AI capabilities.