Marcom LA is Apple's Global Marketing Communications group creating and overseeing the world-class marketing and advertising driving Apples rapidly-growing Services sector including Apple Sports, Apple Music, App Store, Apple Pay, Apple Arcade, Apple News, Apple Books, Apple Podcasts, Apple Maps, iCloud, Creator Studio and more. Whether we're launching the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show, launching F1 on Apple TV, sharing the next generation of games in the App Store, or celebrating the seamless joy of using Apple Pay, Marcom LA's mission is to build brand love for Apple every day. We do that with inspiring creative, a culture-first mindset, and the belief our Services make our incredible Apple devices even better.
The Marcom LA Design team is a creative team of designers, art directors and motion art directors-thinkers and makers who focus on ideas as much craft. We create identities that are unmistakably Apple, rooted in the DNA of its products and experiences, and expressed with simplicity, elegance, and purpose. The Art Director crafts identities and identity-led campaigns for Apple's services, products, and events-bringing ideas to life through through conceptual rigor, hands-on ideation, and systems thinking. Develop and execute brand identities and identity-led campaigns from initial concept through final production. Build scalable identity systems that support multiple campaigns, ensuring consistency, clarity, and creative excellence across applications. Translate strategic briefs into clear, compelling design concepts grounded in strong conceptual thinking and systematic design. Art direct external partners including vendors, illustrators, photographers, and graphic designers, providing clear guidance and actionable feedback. Contribute to presentations and reviews, synthesize feedback, and refine work to align with creative and strategic goals. Collaborate across functions and manage personal workload across concurrent projects to deliver high-quality work on schedule. Ensure excellence in craft across typography, color, composition, imagery and visual systems. 7+ years of experience building brand identities and campaigns, with design as a core discipline. A portfolio demonstrating strong design principles, art direction, typography, color, and visual communication across identity or campaign work. Industry experience as a designer and art director, contributing to the creative development process from concept to final production. Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign). Strong understanding of how identity systems scale and translate across multiple applications, formats, and contexts. Bachelors degree in design or equivalent industry experience. Outstanding conceptual design and problem-solving skills. Experience pitching and executing original design concepts from ideation through final delivery. Demonstrated ability to develop cohesive visual languages and extend them across multi-channel campaigns and applications. Experience designing within established brand systems, with strong instincts for where to push and where to stay consistent. Strong visual storytelling instinct-able to use imagery, typography, and composition to communicate ideas with clarity and purpose. Skilled collaborator-earns trust quickly, engages confidently with competing creative perspectives, and builds alignment without diluting the work. Clear communicator, able to articulate a strong rationale for creative decisions in presentations and reviews. Comfortable navigating ambiguity and working toward a clear direction without a fully defined brief. Versatility across brand identity and campaign design, combining systematic thinking with high-level craft.
We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.
There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.