Creative Lead, Brand & Interactive Apple Music

Culver City, CA (Unknown)

$199K/yr – $299K/yrSenior Level12+ years exp

Posted 12 days ago

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Job Summary

Own the creative leadership and cross-functional alignment for visionary storytelling across media, digital products, and brand, guiding large, matrixed teams toward unified ideas.

  • Lead conceptual storytelling, presentation architecture, and framing of complex arguments.
  • Coordinate across highly matrixed organizations to drive consensus.
  • Elevate horizontal team output and influence final work without being the sole creator.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • 12+ years of experience as a creative director, principal conceptual lead, or interactive creative strategist across media, digital products, and brand
  • A visionary approach to problem-solving, characterized by the ability to look past immediate roadblocks and align disparate cross-functional teams around a unified, ambitious idea
  • A deep foundation in conceptual storytelling, presentation architecture, and framing complex arguments
  • Extensive experience navigating, collaborating, and driving consensus within complex, highly matrixed organizations
  • A demonstrated ego-free mindset that elevates broad horizontal team output, loves great ideas regardless of source, and knows how to influence final work without needing to be sole creator

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience as a creative director, principal conceptual lead, or interactive creative strategist across media, digital products, and brand
  • A visionary approach to problem-solving, characterized by the ability to look past immediate roadblocks and align disparate cross-functional teams around a unified, ambitious idea
  • A deep foundation in conceptual storytelling, presentation architecture, and framing complex arguments
  • Extensive experience navigating, collaborating, and driving consensus within complex, highly matrixed organizations
  • A demonstrated ego-free mindset that elevates broad horizontal team output, loves great ideas regardless of source, and knows how to influence final work without needing to be sole creator

Preferred

  • Worked within the music / streaming space and familiar with digital products and services.
  • Passionate for Apple, its products, and its customers.
  • Have an advanced understanding of what makes content engaging and successful across platforms and audiences

Benefits

  • 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
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