Product Designer, Apple Weather
Job Description
Apple is looking for a senior product designer to help shape Apple Weather with experiences that feel simple, beautiful, and genuinely useful. In this onsite role in Culver City, CA, you’ll partner across design, engineering, and QA to take ideas from early concepts through to a polished product release.
You’ll help define how people understand weather information through thoughtful information architecture, navigation models, and interface design. The work will blend clarity with detail, translating complex and sometimes ambiguous problem spaces into clear stories, proposals, and interactions.
Responsibilities
- Design for delight: create clear, high-impact experiences that feel welcoming and intuitive.
- Develop information architecture, navigation models, and interfaces that influence how people perceive and understand Apple products.
- Advocate for the human experience while crafting new, innovative interaction patterns.
- Map user flows, use cases, and systems so new features feel immediately recognizable, inclusive, and fun.
- Simplify complexity by turning complicated, ambiguous spaces into clear narratives and actionable proposals.
- Balance execution details with a big-picture view to protect a seamless end-to-end experience.
- Collaborate with teammates to strengthen concepts and amplify your unique design voice.
- Communicate decisions and reasoning to a broad audience and navigate review cycles diplomatically to build consensus.
- Work with engineers and QA to shepherd a strong final product to customers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of design experience in a design studio or as a product designer.
- A solid portfolio that shows range and enables you to confidently discuss your work.
- A critical thinker who is imaginative, creative, and inventive, with strong collaboration skills.
- Ability to apply visual design principles such as hierarchy, balance, and contrast to new interfaces.
- Strong capability for visualizing, simplifying, and representing data in a way that is intuitive and communicative.
- Understanding of design systems and patterns.
- Proficiency with design tools, including Sketch, Illustrator, or other equivalent tools.
Technologies
- Sketch
- Illustrator
Benefits
- 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 (as eligible)
- Opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs
- Eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
- Ability to purchase Apple stock at a discount with voluntary participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Preferred Qualifications
- Passion for details while keeping sight of the bigger picture.
- Strong presentation, communication, and storytelling skills, with the ability to navigate competing interests with nuance and diplomacy.
- Comfort working with loose structure and ambiguity.
- Interest in and excitement about weather and science.
Pay & Benefits
Apple base pay is one part of total compensation and is determined within a range based on skills, qualifications, experience, and location. The base pay range for this role is USD 184,700 - 277,600 per year. Note that benefits, compensation, and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.