Apple

Senior Product Designer - Apple Invites

Apple$130K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of product design experience focused on consumer-facing applications across Apple platforms
  • Strong portfolio showcasing visual craft, design thinking, and consumer experience
  • Proven track record in project leadership and cross-functional collaboration
  • Proficient in Sketch, Keynote, and various prototyping tools
  • Strong fundamentals in visual design including typography, color, and motion
  • Exceptional communication skills for articulating design decisions to stakeholders
  • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and detail-oriented environment

Responsibilities

  • Lead product design initiatives for Apple Invites, focusing on user experience and consumer delight
  • Collaborate effectively with engineering, product marketing, and senior leadership teams
  • Translate complex design challenges into elegant solutions
  • Create high-fidelity design comps, motion explorations, and interactive prototypes
  • Ensure visual quality and attention to detail in all design aspects
  • Foster an inclusive design approach that enhances accessibility for all users
  • Continuously iterate on designs based on feedback and user insights

Benefits

  • Work on a consumer-facing product impacting millions
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams
  • Opportunity to influence design at a large scale
  • Access to top-tier resources for project execution
  • Focus on crafting experiences that are joyful and meaningful
Full Job Description
Apple Invites is where meaningful moments begin. It's a product built around the human joy of gathering - helping people create, share, and experience events in a way that feels personal, beautiful, and effortless. We're looking for a talented and deeply craft-driven product designer to help shape the next generation of Apple Invites. This is a rare opportunity to work on a consumer-facing product that touches real moments in people's lives, with the resources and platform to influence how millions of people celebrate, connect, and come together.

Description

The Apple Invites team is seeking an extraordinary product designer who leads with craft and brings a deep passion for consumer experience. You understand that the best consumer products aren't just functional - they're felt. You care deeply about visual quality, motion, and the small moments of delight that make an experience memorable. You have an exceptional eye for typography, color, layout, and the subtle details that separate good design from great design.

You are a natural collaborator who communicates with clarity and confidence across Engineering, Product Marketing, and Senior Leadership. You move fluidly between big-picture thinking and pixel-level execution - able to hold the vision while sweating the details. You approach complexity with calm, translating ambiguous creative challenges into focused, elegant solutions that feel inevitable in hindsight. Your work will be experienced by millions of Apple users around the world, in some of the most personal and joyful moments of their lives.

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years of experience in product design with a strong focus on consumer-facing applications and UI across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and related platforms

A portfolio that demonstrates visual craft, design thinking, expressive UI, and a clear point of view on consumer experience

Proven track record of project leadership and cross-functional collaboration, with experience influencing product direction at the feature and system level

Highly skilled in Sketch, Keynote, and prototyping tools - able to communicate ideas through high-fidelity comps, motion explorations, and interactive prototypes

Strong visual design fundamentals: typography, color, hierarchy, motion, and compositional fluency

Exceptional communication skills - able to articulate design decisions clearly and persuasively to cross-functional partners and senior stakeholders

Comfortable working independently and iteratively in a fast-paced, high-craft environment

Preferred Qualifications

Experience designing social, sharing, or event-based consumer products

Familiarity with motion design and animation principles as part of the product design process

A genuine passion for Apple, its products, and its customers - and a deep understanding of what makes Apple experiences feel distinct

Commitment to designing inclusive and accessible products for a global audience

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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