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Apple

Designs phones, computers and their operating systems

Product Designer

Full-TimeUpdated
No salary listed
Senior
Cupertino, CA, USA
In Person
Product & Experience DesignProduct Design

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 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.
Responsibilities
  • Design clear, effective advertiser workflows, including 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 to decisions across disciplines.
Desired 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 artificial intelligence, 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.

About the company

Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, from iPhone smartphones and Mac computers to tablets and wearable devices. Its operating systems manage apps and built-in functions for communication and work, while iCloud stores files and synchronizes data across devices. Customers buy additional digital services through subscriptions such as Apple Music and Apple TV, and developers distribute software through the App Store. Apple earns money from hardware sales, subscriptions and digital transactions, selling directly to customers and through retailers and mobile carriers around the world. It was founded in 1976 and has its headquarters in Cupertino, California.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Cupertino, California

Founded

1976

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What believers are saying

  • Business demand is growing: Apple reported $109.4 billion revenue in the June 2026 quarter, up 16% year over year.
  • Eligible US employees get learning support: Apple reimburses career-related tuition and runs Apple University classes.
  • Services earn richer margins: Apple reported 75.6% services gross margin in the June 2026 quarter, versus 40.1% for products.

What critics are saying

  • Assembly depends on Asian partners: Apple outsources substantially all final hardware assembly, reducing direct control over production.
  • iPhone concentrates demand risk: the product generated 49.6% of Apple revenue in the June 2026 quarter.
  • Student support shifts take evenings: Apple College Advisors typically work three evening shifts and one weekend shift weekly.

What makes Apple unique

  • Its chips link hardware and software: Apple designs M-series processors and developer frameworks tuned to their unified memory.
  • Stores double as service hubs: Apple combines device sales, Genius Bar technical help and in-person learning sessions.
  • It owns a spatial operating system: Apple Vision Pro runs visionOS, controlled through eyes, hands and voice.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Performance Bonus
  • Relocation Assistance
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

-3%
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