Creative Developer

Summary

Posted:Apr 18, 2025

Weekly Hours:40

Role Number:200600218

People come to Apple to do the best work of their lives. At Apple Services, we provide amazing content to Apple customers, like the amazing Apps and Games from the App Store, blockbuster Movies & TV Shows in Apple’s TV App, and providing the soundtrack to our customers’ lives via Apple Music. The Apple Services Media Technology & Tools Design Team is looking for a Creative Developer with a solid understanding of both web and native app development, with a keen aesthetic eye, a strong interest in Design and a proven track record. This role is focused on empowering creatives with amazing tools to automate repetitive tasks at international scale, and to create new deliverables never thought possible from different image and video sources for Apple Media Products (Apple TV App, Apple Music, App Store, Podcasts and Apple Books).

Description

As a Creative Developer, you will focus on many core areas. Among them, you will work between Human Interface Design, Content Design, and Engineering to drive design automation progress forward using prototyping and quick iteration through homemade tools or utilities needed to cross-functionally visualize the deliverables, gather feedback from stakeholders, iterate, and ultimately ship to customers. Additionally, you will build web and native macOS Apps to create efficiencies in production design processes, and automate artwork at a large scale. You’ll develop Photoshop and After Effects scripts, Sketch plugins and macOS services to cut down on repetitive work, and boost productivity of Editorial and Production Design Teams, and prototype solutions for artwork systems in the context of Apple Media Products Services UI. In addition to this you will maintain new and existing software, and distribute new releases as new versions of macOS, Photoshop, Sketch and other tools are released. You’ll work to find solutions to automate interactions between different web and native applications, and use internal content APIs to download, process and upload art to different systems. You’ll collaborate to create and maintain documentation for new and existing apps and tools, and be available to support questions from team members, and take feedback on bugs and enhancements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Some college-level education, or higher
• Experience in at least one server side technology, such as NodeJS or Python.
• Experience using modern web frameworks, such as React.
• Experience using REST APIs with JSON, and a high-level understanding of how HTTP works.
• Experience with Git and using GitHub to maintain well organized code repositories and releases.
• Experience and proficiency working and automating art with Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch and After Effects.
• Comfort working together with many Design teams as well as Engineering team disciplines, often being the creative development glue between them.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in designing iOS app experiences from start to finish as a product designer with familiarity of iOS development
• UI and visual design work for desktop, TV, web, or Apple Vision is a plus
• Previous experience working in e-commerce environment is a plus
• Highly skilled in Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, Keynote and other design tools
• Ability to prototype in HTML/CSS/JavaScript, AfterEffects, or other tools
• A deep understanding of the Apple design aesthetic, UI, and history

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $175,800 and $312,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.