Apple

Creative Lead, Brand & Interactive Apple Music

Apple$130K — $180K *
Media
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years as a creative director or similar role in media and digital products
  • Visionary problem-solver skilled at aligning cross-functional teams
  • Strong foundation in conceptual storytelling and presentation architecture
  • Experience collaborating in complex, matrixed organizations
  • Ego-free mindset, valuing all ideas and influencing without sole authorship

Responsibilities

  • Champion high-impact opportunities and align teams around strategic creative visions
  • Frame conceptual arguments to drive creative discourse within and beyond the team
  • Collaborate with strategy leads to influence key decision-making
  • Orchestrate efforts of the creative team to convert ideas into compelling experiences
  • Advocate for transformative work alongside UI and Product colleagues

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with diverse teams
  • Opportunities for influencing high-impact creative outcomes
  • Engagement with innovative and significant projects
  • Chance to work alongside industry leaders and visionaries
  • Access to a rich array of resources across the company
Full Job Description
Description

We're looking for a brilliant "accomplish-through-others" creative. As a highly senior individual contributor, your impact isn't measured by what you physically produce, but by the scale and quality of the ideas you champion. You operate with strong opinions, loosely held.

You possess exceptional external and internal partnership skills. You are comfortable intaking complex problems, collaborating across myriad organizations, and recognizing great ideas no matter where they originate. You will identify and champion the opportunities with the greatest potential impact, aligning teams around a shared strategic and creative point of view.

Your role is to frame the conceptual argument and orchestrate the execution. You don't need to craft the final work yourself; instead, you know how to bring the right minds and perspectives together so that the most productive creative discourse happens-both inside the team and out.

You will partner directly with a strategy lead to drive upstream thinking, influence decision-making, and serve as a trusted collaborator to leaders across the organization. Working across disciplines, you will orchestrate the efforts of the broader creative team to translate ambitious ideas into compelling, high-impact experiences that advance both business and brand objectives.

You understand the mechanics of complex corporate ecosystems. Driven by a vision that supersedes immediate obstacles, you use that institutional knowledge to push ambitious, transformative work forward alongside your UI and Product peers.

Minimum Qualifications

12+ years of experience as a creative director, principal conceptual lead, or interactive creative strategist across media, digital products, and brand

A visionary approach to problem-solving, characterized by the ability to look past immediate roadblocks and align disparate cross-functional teams around a unified, ambitious idea

A deep foundation in conceptual storytelling, presentation architecture, and framing complex arguments

Extensive experience navigating, collaborating, and driving consensus within complex, highly matrixed organizations

A demonstrated ego-free mindset that elevates broad horizontal team output, loves great ideas regardless of source, and knows how to influence final work without needing to be sole creator

Preferred Qualifications

Worked within the music / streaming space and familiar with digital products and services.

Passionate for Apple, its products, and its customers.

Have an advanced understanding of what makes content engaging and successful across platforms and audiences

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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