Responsibilities

• Partner with senior stakeholders within PD&M to shape and uphold the visual language across TV and Sports.
• Contribute to concept development and creative direction that elevates Apple storytelling through Photography and Innovative visual formats.
• Serve as a steward of Apple’s creative bar—ensuring consistency, emotional impact, and excellence across all consumer-facing imagery.
• Build and maintain scalable, photography-led visual systems that integrate seamlessly with video and motion assets.
• Ensure creative continuity across campaigns, leagues, seasons, and platforms while remaining adaptable to evolving formats and product needs.
• Lead end-to-end workflows across photography, including sourcing strategy, licensing approach, rights clearance, fee negotiation, contract execution, and final delivery.
• Maintain deep familiarity with agencies, photographers, filmmakers, specialty archives, and league-owned libraries.
• Partner closely with Legal, Business Affairs, Production, and external rights holders to ensure compliant, efficient, and scalable solutions.
• Demonstrate deep proficiency in Keynote as a core creative and strategic tool.
• Develop clear, compelling creative briefs, pitches, and visual narratives that articulate proposed creative strategies to senior stakeholders.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in creative leadership, photography, video, or multimedia roles within sports, entertainment, media, or technology.
• Demonstrated expertise in photography with strong fluency in video and motion storytelling.
• Portfolio reflecting world-class visual taste, consistency, and execution across still and motion formats.
• Significant experience managing large-scale, multi-platform creative and licensing workflows.
• Advanced understanding of image and footage rights, licensing structures, contract negotiation, and clearance processes.
• Proven ability to communicate creative strategy clearly through written, verbal, and visual presentations.
• Exceptional organizational and collaboration skills.

Preferred

• Experience operating at an Associate Creative Director level within a product-driven organization.
• Strong track record of presenting creative strategy to senior leadership.
• Interest in future people leadership as the team and scope evolve.
• Comfort operating in high-visibility, fast-paced TV and sports environments.