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Creative Director - Experience Design (XD)

Apple· Marketing
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Hybrid (Shanghai)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Lead the strategy and design for all interactive and omnichannel experiences in China, collaborating with cross-functional teams to connect digital platforms with in-store experiences for Apple and partners.

Responsibilities

  • Define the experience strategy for China, conceptualizing how customers interact with Apple’s brand and products across digital campaigns, social platforms, apple.com, and physical in-store environments.
  • Collaborate with Worldwide, Geo, and local China teams—as well as Interactive Creative Directors, Design teams, retail experts, writers, and creative technologists—to bring strategic concepts to life and produce exceptional work.
  • Guide teams through strategic concept development, providing expertise in experience strategy, system design, usability, analytics, user testing, and omnichannel marketing.
  • Listen to perspectives, provide thoughtful feedback, and resolve challenges within your team and across Marcom, ensuring all voices are heard and considered.
  • Articulate the strategic thinking behind your design decisions, presenting work clearly to senior creative staff, product marketing managers, and Apple executives.
  • Connect high-level strategies across online, retail, channel, events, and advertising to ensure a unified customer journey—whether on a screen or in a physical space.
  • Work with project managers and creative leads to ensure schedules are realistic and deadlines are met.
  • Discover and nurture new talent, build your team for an ongoing calendar of projects, and manage outside agencies and vendors when needed.

Qualifications

  • A portfolio or work samples demonstrating applied knowledge of experience strategy, usability, user-centered design, and content strategy. Your XD documents should include strategic frameworks, sitemaps, user flows, wireframes, and spatial or physical journey maps.
  • 12+ years of overall experience, including 3 years of management experience as a leader driving experience strategy in a creative-focused digital agency or in-house at a leading brand.
  • Strong written and spoken Chinese and English skills to effectively communicate and collaborate with international team members.
  • A global perspective with an awareness of the latest digital trends and strategic methodologies.
  • Deep exposure to local culture in China and its unique interactive and retail landscape.
  • Proven ability to map and orchestrate cohesive, strategically driven user journeys that span digital platforms and physical in-store experiences.
  • Fluent in analytics, usability tests, and other forms of qualitative and quantitative feedback to inform and validate your strategies.
  • Your work is grounded in clear strategic thinking and original ideas, executed with structural logic, usability, and meticulous attention to detail.
  • You use a range of tools to express your experience strategies and concepts, from hand sketches and wireframes to user flows and rapid prototypes.
  • Excellent management, mentorship, and interpersonal skills. You can present, collaborate, and respectfully debate with senior partners in a clear and articulate manner.
  • A Bachelor’s degree with a multidisciplinary educational background such as human-computer interaction, psychology, computer science, information sciences, commerce, or a related discipline.

Skills

Required:Experience strategyUser journey mappingUsability testing and analyticsStakeholder managementChinese and English communication
Last updated Sep 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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