HI Production Designer Systems Design Apple Media Services

The Product u0026 Design team for Apple Media Services is seeking an experienced Human Interface Designer to own visual specification and design-to-engineering hand-off across multiple products including all Apple platforms and additional 3rd-party platforms as needed. Familiarity building components and working within design system architecture is strongly desired. As part of a small high-impact team supporting some of Apples most actively evolving consumer apps your ability to bring order and clarity to fast-moving ambiguous work will directly shape the experience used by millions of people every day.

The ideal candidate is an independent technically proficient designer who can own a broad fast-moving workspace with minimal oversight determining how to approach ambiguous problems and driving them to resolution across closely with product designers producers and engineering leads youll catch changes early and keep implementation documented and intentional rather than ad hoc while translating design intent including custom and one-off requests into precise engineering-ready is a role focused on being the source of truth for visual specifications as our apps evolve: producing detailed design deliverables for engineering covering spacing sizing type tokens materials assets variants and more while maintaining and expanding our design systems libraries and upholding consistency across platforms with rigor and discernment. Youll also manage your own queue of competing priorities negotiating scope and timeline tradeoffs as needed. Keen attention to detail and strong organizational skills are a must along with the ability to navigate rapid change and are a clear direct communicator who proactively surfaces problems and drives solutions across teams. As our scope grows youll also help set the bar for quality across the team coaching less experienced designers where its useful.

Several years of professional experience in production design UX design or a closely related design-operations role with experience working across multiple platforms simultaneouslynDemonstrated ability to independently solve complex ambiguous problems and drive solutions across teams with minimal guidancenFluent in Figma including component libraries design tokens and variables; comfortable working within and extending an existing design systemnExceptional written and verbal communication skills with a strong ability toncollaborate effectively across designers engineers and other cross-functional partnersnStrong organizational skills combined with a proven ability to juggle multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced design studionExperience translating fast-changing sometimes non-standard design intent into clear implementation-ready specsnPortfolio demonstrating spec and documentation work on shipped products not just visual design

Established expertise in production design with the range to expand into adjacent design and production disciplinesnExperience mentoring or guiding less experienced designersnDesire to keep up with emerging technology including AI tools (e.g. Claude GPT or similar) to enhance design and production workflowsnPrior experience supporting a media/entertainment or content-heavy appnNative app development experience (e.g. Swift SwiftUI) is a plus helping bridge design intent and implementationnDegree in related field of study or equivalent experience