Managing Art Buyer Illustration & Animation (Fixed-term Contract)

The International Content Design team conceptualises designs and creates the content experiences for some of Apples most visible products. Your ideas can impact the way people consume media products what they look and feel like and how theyre used by millions of people across the globe.

Our Art Buying team commissions world-class illustration and animation across the App Store Books Music and Podcasts partnering with extraordinary artists to create work that reaches hundreds of millions of people around the world. Were looking for a creative leader to join us on a 12-month fixed-term contract to guide this talented globally distributed team through a defining and exciting is a role for a confident visible leader someone who advocates fiercely for their team sets a high creative bar and brings the clarity and energy a distributed team needs to thrive. If youre the kind of leader people want to follow and youre energised by championing brilliant people doing brilliant work wed love to hear from you.

Lead and champion a distributed team of Senior Art Buyers a Co-ordinator and a Resource Specialist across London Tokyo and clear direction keeping the team motivated focused and delivering to a high for the team upward and cross-functionally. Securing resource protecting priorities and representing their work to senior the operational rhythm: workflow prioritisation quality and delivery across all our across timezones with the structure and empathy a global team individual growth development and performance through genuine coaching budgets artist and vendor relationships and commissioning standards. Always championing fair rates and respectful collaboration with creative forward initiatives including onboarding knowledge-sharing and internal education resources to continue supporting our Art the team adopt and embed new workflow tooling (Airtable) into their day-to-day complex cross-functional collaborations internally protecting the teams creative standards and artist relationships while being mindful of conflicting cross-functional timing creative briefs into clear digestible objectives for internal and external partners.

Significant experience managing and developing creative or design operational teams. Experience managing an art buying team is ideal. nExperience managing distributed or remote teams across multiple track record of strong stakeholder management balancing competing needs across lines of business and communicating persuasively at senior ability to advocate for a teams priorities resource and with navigating ambiguity and frequently changing conditions with a bias toward setting a clear with complex budget handling and emotional intelligence. The ability to read a room manage sensitive dynamics politics and keep morale high under in delegation and in identifying where to balance a teams independence with shared support.

Background in art buying commissioning creative production or a related creative-operations understanding of the commercial art world: Agencies artists rates licensing and the complexity of creative with Airtable or similar project management collaborating across cultures and working in AI ethics as they relate to artists rights and commissioning genuine interest in illustration animation and of artwork licensing and contracts.