Product Designer, Cloud Infrastructure

Apple’s Internal Tools HI design team is seeking a Senior Product Designer to help reimagine how engineers build, ship, and scale infrastructure. This role blends research, ideation, design, and prototyping to create technically sophisticated, user-centric tools for Apple teams.

Role Focus

In this position, you will work on internal product experiences that support engineers across complex infrastructure workflows. The work emphasizes interaction design at scale, design direction, and creating interfaces that help thousands of engineers become more effective in their day-to-day work.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to research, ideate, design, and prototype intuitive, user-centric solutions for Apple engineers.
• Integrate feedback from design leadership and a broad set of stakeholders while working against tight deadlines.
• Contribute to overall design direction, while supporting process improvements and team growth.
• Use AI-powered tools to accelerate research synthesis, generate and evaluate design directions, build prototypes, and reduce gaps between design intent and shipped products.
• Tackle complex interaction challenges at scale by setting design direction and creating experiences that increase engineers’ capability every day.
• Demonstrate strong collaboration skills, composure under pressure, and adaptability to rapid change.

Requirements

• 7+ years of design experience with a focus on web.
• Expertise designing large-scale enterprise, B2B, or data-rich internal tools.
• Proven experience solving complex interaction problems across multiple platforms.
• Portfolio demonstrating excellence in interaction design, visual design, and problem-solving.
• Ability to communicate design thinking to engineers, product managers, and leadership using storytelling, visuals, and presentations.
• Experience translating technical data structures into clear, user-centered experiences.
• Proficiency with industry-standard design tools including Sketch, Figma, and Keynote, with comfort adopting new tools as the landscape evolves.
• Capability to document interaction details and visual design specifications, and to quality-check implementation against design intent.
• Experience managing multiple complex projects at the same time.
• Thrives in collaborative critique environments and applies feedback to improve design outcomes.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a track record of adapting to rapid change.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing developer-facing portals or tools for professionals working with big data, complex infrastructure, or related technical domains.
• Ability to use AI-assisted prototyping or development tools to produce functional, testable design artifacts beyond static mockups.
• Confidence presenting a design-first vision that connects complex technical data structures with demanding user requirements.
• Experience planning and conducting research studies, including study design, participant recruiting, and synthesis.

Location and Employment Details

Location: Seattle, WA (onsite)

Salary: USD 175,000 - 263,300 per year

Experience: Minimum 7 years

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

Additional Compensation and Stock Plan Information

Base Pay Range: The base pay range for this role is between $175,000 and $263,300, and base pay will depend on skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple Stock Opportunities: Employees may be eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards and can purchase Apple stock at a discount through the voluntary Apple Employee Stock Purchase Plan.