Art Director, Design

Art Director, Design for Apple (Marcom LA), onsite in Los Angeles, leads identity-driven campaigns for services, products, and events, translating concepts into production-ready design while guiding external partners to ensure brand consistency.

Responsibilities

• Create and lead brand identities and identity-led campaigns from concept through final production.
• Design scalable identity systems that support multiple campaigns while ensuring consistency, clarity, and high creative quality across applications.
• Convert strategic briefs into clear, compelling design concepts grounded in strong ideas and systematic design processes.
• Direct external partners including vendors, illustrators, photographers, and graphic designers, providing precise guidance and actionable feedback.
• Contribute to presentations and reviews, synthesize feedback, and refine work to align with creative and strategic goals.
• Collaborate across teams and manage workloads across concurrent projects to deliver high-quality work on schedule.
• Maintain excellence in craft across typography, color, composition, imagery, and visual systems.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building brand identities and campaigns with design as a core discipline.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong design principles, art direction, typography, color, and visual communication across identity or campaign work.
• Proven experience as both designer and art director, contributing to the creative development process from concept to final production.
• Advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
• Deep understanding of how identity systems scale across multiple applications, formats, and contexts.
• Bachelor's degree in design or equivalent industry experience.

Technologies

• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe InDesign

Compensation

• Base pay range: USD 142,600 – 215,000 per year

Benefits

• Discretionary employee stock programs (RSUs)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with stock at a discount
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Discounted products and free services
• Tuition reimbursement or reimbursement for educational expenses including tuition
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
• Relocation assistance