Creative Director, Design

Apple’s Apple TV Marketing team is looking for a Creative Director, Design to lead the creative development behind Apple TV originals and sports design and artwork for global, multi-platform campaigns. This onsite role in Culver City, CA helps shape key art and marketing materials across show and league promotions, with the chance to extend entertainment creative throughout the Apple Ecosystem.

The position plays a central role in guiding creative direction, managing production timelines, and partnering with agencies and vendors to deliver work that meets deadlines and quality standards. You’ll also contribute to brainstorming across a wide range of marketing campaigns and align creative plans across cross-functional teams and senior leadership.

What you’ll do

• Guide creative development for design marketing materials and overall campaign direction
• Manage development of key art and visual representation for shows and leagues, including building and organizing key art presentations for upper management
• Set creative direction for promotional materials, from concept development through tactical execution
• Oversee relationships with outside creative agencies, providing direction and revisions on comp explorations, reviewing proofs, and approving mechanicals
• Manage production calendars, flag potential issues, and direct projects to help the team meet deadlines
• Lead fulfillment of print and outdoor or transit media buys as needed
• Develop multimedia extensions that extend shows across the Apple Ecosystem
• Articulate creative plans across cross-functional teams and senior leadership
• Build and strengthen relationships with new and current creative and production vendors to conceive and execute campaigns
• Oversee creative budgets and timelines, including monitoring team budget and signing off on vendor invoices
• Supervise organization and distribution of show and network creative assets with internal and external partners

What you bring

• Proven ability to create and direct high-quality entertainment creative and design
• Minimum 8 years of creative design and direction experience, with emphasis in sports and entertainment, and ideally at least 5 years leading a team
• Strong skills with Mac plus fluency and expertise in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and Apple Keynote
• Fluency in digital, social, AV, and print advertising formats and design best practices

Tools you’ll use

• Mac
• Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)
• Apple Keynote

Compensation and benefits

The estimated salary range is USD 177,000 - 266,000 per year.

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Discounted products and free services
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments, as well as relocation
• Apple shareholder opportunities through Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs, including discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and eligibility to purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Preferred qualifications

• Ability to develop creative solutions when pivoting is required
• Experience managing a high volume of creative and campaign types in parallel
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working directly with talent, athletes, and creators to collaborate on campaigns
• Collaborative, team-oriented approach
• Experience working with global teams is a plus
• Familiarity with AI tools