Motion Design Director

7 days ago


Sunnyvale, California, United States Apple Full time

**Job Title:** Motion Design Director

**Company Overview:**

At Apple, we're pushing the boundaries of innovation and creativity. Our Marcom team is responsible for developing world-class communications across all media platforms, ensuring that hundreds of millions of customers around the world interact with our products in an engaging and inspiring way.

**Estimated Salary:** $180,000 - $220,000 per year

**Job Description:**

As a Senior Art Director on our Marcom team, you will be instrumental in designing and directing identities for Apple's products, events, and future consumer experiences. You will contribute to all projects from initial blue-sky ideation through final delivery of production, working closely with multiple groups across Apple and within Marcom to create engagement through visuals, introducing products and services to a global audience.

**Key Responsibilities:**

  • • Craft innovative and inspiring campaigns that align with creative briefings while collaborating with partners and mentoring junior creatives.• Animation, design, and illustration experience are core to the role, with experience both pitching creative and leading production from concept through delivery.• Provide direction, oversight, and leadership to project teams, responding swiftly to new information and pivoting strategically when needed.• Convey a strong point of view on design solutions through innovative thinking.• Drive workflows across multiple team members, including Human Interface Design, Interactive Design, Brand, and Production teams.• Collaborate closely with vendors by providing art direction, guidance, and feedback.• Possess an eye for aesthetic and create a powerful story through the work.• Work as part of a dedicated team focused on excellent design in accordance with project constraints and parameters.

**Requirements and Qualifications:**

  • • 10+ years of experience building brand identities and campaigns, with motion design at the core of your skillset.• A portfolio exhibiting a thorough grasp of design principles, animation principles, motion theory, typography, and visual communication.• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator), After Effects, Cinema 4D, or equivalent 3D tools.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

  • • BA/BFA degree in Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, or other related discipline.• Strong eye for art direction, presenting as capable defining motion behaviors and developing a systematic and scalable approach to deliverables.• Experience with 3D Animation Software, such as Maya, Houdini, and/or Nuke.• Knowledge of AR/VR and generative tools, and how they connect to design implementation and production.• Ability to drive workflows, communicating creative ideas and schedules across teams.• Resourceful and proactive in finding solutions with excellent communication skills.• Aptness to see around corners to ensure awareness of bigger problems and opportunities ahead.• Ability to cut through ambiguity and find the path forward, despite uncertainty or challenges.• Dynamic communication style, capable of real-time creative problem-solving in conversation and conveying a strong point of view for motion design solutions.• Outstanding conceptual design and design problem-solving skills.

**Why Apple?**

Apple is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure 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.



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