Apple

Senior Art Director, Motion Design

Apple$130K — $155K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in motion design and brand campaigns.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing design foundations and principles across 2D and 3D.
  • Previous role as lead animator or art director managing projects from concept to production.
  • Advanced skills in Adobe Creative Suite and Cinema 4D.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

  • Create innovative motion design solutions for marketing campaigns.
  • Convey Apple's messaging through graphic design, motion, and editorial elements.
  • Develop thoughtfully crafted brand identity systems for global marketing.
  • Collaborate with teams to define visual strategies for projects.
  • Guide and mentor junior designers throughout the creative process.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on high-impact projects with a global brand.
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies and creative tools.
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment.
  • Potential for career advancement within a leading design team.
Full Job Description
Description

The Senior Art Director, Motion Design, creates innovative and inspiring motion design solutions for marketing Apple's products, events, and consumer experiences. They convey Apple's message through a blend of graphic design, motion, music, and editorial elements that effectively addresses creative briefs. They create thoughtfully crafted systems for brand identities and worldwide marketing campaigns.

Minimum Qualifications

10+ years of experience building brand identities and campaigns with motion design as a core discipline.

Portfolio demonstrating expertise in design foundations, animation principles, motion theory, typography, and visual communication, across 2D and 3D work.

Industry experience as a lead animator or art director, overseeing the creative development process from concept to final production.

Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Media Encoder) as well as Cinema 4D with Redshift for camera work, texturing, and lighting.

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Proven ability to develop original motion concepts and prototype them hands-on, balancing strategic thinking and high-level craft.

Excellent design and conceptual skills accompanied by the ability to guide and evaluate, and if necessary, redirect creative development.

Experience defining scaleable motion behaviors and visual systems for complex, multi-channel campaigns.

Familiarity with advanced production tools such as Maya, Houdini, Nuke and Resolve, and how design translates into deep CG production environments.

Curiosity with utilizing emerging technologies in the design process, such as AR/VR, spatial computing, or generative design tools.

Proven ability to pitch and articulate complex motion concepts to stakeholders to align creative vision with strategy.

Able to learn and adapt quickly, capable of flexible creative problem solving in a rapidly changing environment.

Demonstrated ability to mentor designers, collaborate across disciplines, and contribute to an innovative design culture.

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.

Apple Careers

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Learn more about Apple
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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