Associate Creative Director, Art

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200684260-2605

Summary

Marcom LA is Apple’s Global Marketing Communications group creating and overseeing the world-class marketing and advertising driving Apple's rapidly-growing Services sector including Apple TV, Apple Sports, Apple Music, App Store, Apple Pay, Apple Arcade, Apple News, Apple Books, Apple Podcasts, Apple Maps, iCloud and more. Whether we’re launching the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show, F1 on Apple TV, sharing the next generation of games in the App Store, or celebrating the seamless joy of using Apple Pay, Marcom LA’s mission is to build brand love for Apple every day. We do that with inspiring creative, a culture-first mindset, and the belief that our Services make our incredible Apple devices even better.

We are looking for an Associate Creative Director, Art to join our Marcom LA team. In this role, you will collaborate with a group of strategists, brand managers, project managers, producers, as well as cross functional and external partners to lead campaigns, programs, and executions that can expand across a variety of media with a focus on culturally relevant ideas.

Description

In this role you will lead creative efforts and campaigns for Apple’s Services such as Apple Music, Apple Music Halftime Show, iCloud+, Podcasts, Fitness+ and more. You will ideate, collaborate, and write for conceptual development and creative execution. You craft, review, and empower campaigns for our brands and products. You will present work to senior creative staff, product marketing managers, and Apple executives, and articulate concepts with energy and enthusiasm. You will collaborate with the ACD/Copywriter to concept ideas and co-direct teams to produce quality creative. You will work across subject areas to integrate strategies and messaging for brand campaigns, digital performance efforts, social, owned channels, and new mediums of communication. You will work with project managers and creative directors to ensure that schedules are accurate, realistic and that deadlines are met. You will also guide creatives to do their best work and to support each other's strengths.

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years experience concepting and producing major marketing, communication, or music campaigns.


• Deep industry experience developing integrated campaigns, earned media initiatives, and social-first creative platforms.

• A portfolio that demonstrates highly crafted, highly art directed work, breakthrough earned media, and programmatic executions.


• Lives and breathes culture and has a strong awareness of the evolving cultural landscape and emerging trends

Preferred Qualifications

• Passionate about exceptional storytelling, art direction, design, and creative that is thoughtful, meaningful, and at times, provocative.


• Strong proclivity for culture-first thinking that leads to meaningful earned impact.


• You dream of working in a creative and dynamic environment and embrace the opportunity to continuously enhance the Apple brand.


• Have an incredible talent for developing elevated aesthetics, visually cohesive campaigns, and the ability to tell a powerful story through the work.


• Ability to create key visuals for A-list artists and a deep understanding of what makes for an iconic image in today’s media landscape.


• Passionate about exceptional storytelling, art direction and creative that is thoughtful, meaningful, and at times, provocative.

• World-class communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills


Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.