These are all full-time jobs at Apple! Please apply by February 7!
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iTunes Store – Production Designer
Apple is looking for an exceptional Production Designer to join their Apple Media Content design team. In this role, you will be creating a variety of digital assets used to engage and attract consumers on Apple Media platforms. You will be working along side a global team of Designers, Editors, and Production teams. The ideal candidate for the role relishes in the details of the production design process.
Role Responsibilities:
Applicant will be responsible for creating consumer facing graphics featuring content like music, movies, TV shows, Apps, and podcasts within Apple Media interfaces. The graphics can be large and small graphic teasers, featured artist pages, or special events features. These graphics may also need localization so sensitivity to typography and composition is key. All design at Apple is considered very closely by many teams. The applicant must have experience working in an iterative process.
The ideal candidate will have:
• a deep understanding of typography for the web. Experience with typesetting in a variety of languages is a plus.
• expert level photo retouching skills
• understanding of actions and batch processing image assets
• experience naming files according to production specifications
• the ability to work independently to troubleshoot technical and process related issues.
• a deep understanding of the Apple aesthetic, UI, and history
Required Experience:
• Expert Knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, and/or other image optimizing applications
• Candidates should possess exceptional graphic design skills Prior experience in a time sensitive production environment
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Degree in BSc/BA Graphic Design or Visual Communication
All resumes must be accompanied by portfolio and/or website link.
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Visual Designer
Apple Media Products Design is a team of UX designers, visual designers, copywriters and prototypers who create Music, Movie, TV, Book, and App experiences across all devices and platforms that are used by hundreds of millions of people daily. We are currently looking for someone with a background in designing global user experiences and conducting field research and ethnography for new product concepts. Ideally, the person filling this role would have previous experience designing products for markets like China, Japan, and India.
Key Qualifications
• 5+ years experience creating and shipping world-class products with a portfolio showing interaction design work and illustrating problem solving across a variety of projects.
• Passionate consumer of music and/or movies with a deep knowledge of current products and experiences on the market.
• You think big and strive to solve complex problems that extend outside of your immediate responsibilities.
• A natural diplomat and strong collaborator who can thrive in a cross-functional team environment to present and iterate on your designs.
• Self-starter, self-motivated, able to work independently, and can manage multiple projects under minimal supervision.
• Patient, understanding, ego-free and is eager to give and receive constructive feedback.
• Comfortable working in Illustrator or Indesign.
Description
• Create simple and seamless experiences across a variety of apps and platforms by distilling product requirements and user goals into sketches, wireframes and prototypes.
• Collaborate with brilliant and passionate design, engineering, QA, copywriting and product teams to take ideas from conception to release.
• Advocate for simplicity at every moment, constantly reevaluate existing products and suggest ways to fix and enhance the experience.
Education
Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design, Media Arts or similar.
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Product Designer, Consumer Apps
Apple’s Applications Group is seeking a Sr. Product Designer to work on consumer software applications for the Mac and iOS. The ideal candidate is a brilliant problem solver, quick study, self starter, and excellent communicator with a passion for great design and the ability to achieve it. The candidate possesses that rare blend of interaction design, visual design, and prototyping skills.
Key Qualifications
* Degree in human interaction sociology, psychology, interaction design, visual design, or equivalent
* 4+ years experience designing desktop applications
* Expert knowledge of user-centered design principles
* Demonstrable fluency with Photoshop, Illustrator, or other design tools
* Ability to do rapid prototyping in Flash and HTML5
* Complete mastery of OS X and iOS. Experience with iLife and iWork a big plus.
* Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
* Excellent collaborative skills
* Comfortable working in a loosely structured organization
* Highly professional, with the ability to deliver solid work on tight schedules
Description
From brainstorming through implementation, the Sr. Product Designer will work with members of the Applications design team, as well as our engineering, marketing, and QA groups. The candidate has the ability to quickly grasp and distill highly complex matters into clean, understandable solutions. He or she is an effective diplomat with strong communication and organizational skills who is willing to prove him/herself within a company of talented individuals.
The Sr. Product Designer is a key player in determining the future design direction of Apple’s consumer apps. We are looking for a visionary designer who is ready to and capable of taking software design to the next level.
Education
* Degree in human interaction sociology, psychology, interaction design, visual design, or equivalent
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