Design Manager, Content - Health
Summary
Apple's Health team is looking for an experienced design leader who loves being close to the work. You'll join a growing creative team — working alongside clinical experts and world-class technologists — and bring the kind of collaborative, design-obsessed leadership that makes a team thrive. Together, you'll shape content and technology that helps Apple customers live healthier, more informed lives.
Description
The Design Manager will own the creative direction of content across all media formats — setting the bar for quality, overseeing design work in digital and video, and commissioning illustration and photography. You will be a strategic thinker and skilled communicator with a proven track record of planning and executing within a highly collaborative team. This is a player-coach role: you'll stay close to the work and the people making it, while also serving as a trusted creative voice for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Set and maintain a strong creative vision for Health content across all formats and platforms
- Manage a small team of designers and art directors — coordinating assignments, ensuring consistency, and nurturing individual growth
- Collaborate with the greater editorial team, including video, in the development and execution of many content types; work closely with engineers, clinicians, and data scientists to understand needs, constraints, and goals
- Guide the commissioning and art direction of illustration and still photography
- Iterate on and critique your own work and the work of others to ensure the best solutions for every problem
- Work within a schedule to deliver high-quality work on time, managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Extend existing design patterns across new ideas and platforms with confidence and consistency
- Champion a collaborative, iterative design process inspired by open critique and creative generosity
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum of 10–12 years of experience crafting extraordinary digital content designs for iOS, desktop, or web platforms, including at least 3–5 years in a design management or creative leadership role
- Background in media, editorial, publishing, or content-forward digital environments — a deep understanding of how stories are told across formats is strongly preferred
- Proficient in Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Keynote, After Effects, Illustrator, and other design tools
- Strong communication and presentation skills with a talent for working closely with cross-functional teams including video, data, design, category experts, engineering, and program management
- Established network of designers, illustrators, photographers, and photo production teams
- Proven ability to oversee the workflow for many projects at once without losing quality or momentum
- Passion for Apple, its products, and its customers
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading creative at a media company, editorial brand, or content-forward digital platform
- Experience with health apps, programs, or data is not necessary but valuable; a genuine passion for health is a must
- Self-motivated and able to efficiently lead a project and a team with appropriate autonomy
- Prototyping and/or animation experience is a plus
- Budget management experience and creative thinking around resource allocation
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and change — able to adapt fluidly while keeping the team steady and focused