Design Manager, Content - Health
Apple· Design
Cupertino, CA$237.6k - $356.4kFull-timePosted 7mo ago
About the role
Apple's Health team seeks an experienced design leader to oversee content across media formats, guiding creative direction, coordinating a small design team, and collaborating with editorial, video, engineers, clinicians, and data scientists to produce health content that informs and engages users.
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
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
- 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
Skills
Required:Creative leadershipCross-functional collaboration
Benefits
- Apple benefits including Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and education-related reimbursement including tuition
- Discretionary employee stock programs and eligibility for Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation may be available
Last updated Jul 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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