Senior Designer

Interaction Architecture (IA) is a design and prototyping team within the larger Apple Design Team. We are a diverse team of designers hardware engineers software engineers and makers who explore future experiences for Apples existing and speculative products. We apply technical expertise and product thinking to early-stage concepts most often doing work that incorporates multiple modalities in both hardware and software.

IA is looking for a Senior Designer with excellent interaction design sensibilities and strong technical and interpersonal skills. nnYou will help us learn by doing working rapidly and cross-functionally to understand and express key capabilities of future products and technologies by creating interactive prototypes to guide decision-making and build intuition across the company. nnThe work balances craft and perspective - shaping direction in ambiguous spaces connecting ideas across disciplines and designing experiences that feel effortless and grounded. You will collaborate with peers in a design-led environment where critique is constructive and frequent briefs are intentionally open-ended and the end goal is the human experience rather than technical work will be instrumental in helping Apple to understand the promises and pitfalls of technologies that may not even exist yet and will help guide the incubation of those technologies towards ideal candidate builds alignment across teams with different priorities and personalities is self-motivated and proactive works both independently and collaboratively and can effectively engage on ambiguous briefs as well as on specific directed work. A Senior Designer would be expected to both produce their own work and to direct the work of others.

Considerable experience designing interactions for a broad range of product types nCapable of highly independent work originating briefs and proactively building coalitions across ApplenA wide range of prototyping skills ranging from scrappy to polishednTechnical fluency in hardware software or both and the ability to independently build worknStrong product sensibility and ability to advocate for the end user experiencenA mentor to others and dedicated to raising the overall quality of design across the groupnCross-disciplinary exploratory and collaborative with an ego-less working style that brings colleagues and their contributions togethernA clear communicator able to deliver coherent stories and documentation that frames the work in the appropriate contextnAble to connect people to ideas in a way that generates excitement nAdept at sharing work and rationale with senior leadershipnComfortable with ambiguity open-ended exploration and receiving design critiquenMinimum 2 years working at Apple in CupertinonWillingness to travel to Cupertino 3 times per year or as requirednWillingness to meet on Cupertino hours as requirednPortfolio or link to portfolio required to apply

Deep technical expertise in software AI/ML or audionSignificant expertise designing for AI/ML interactionsnExperience organizing directing and motivating project teamsnA deep and broad network within ApplenExperience working with Apple design teams