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Sr. Designer, Packaging

Apple

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Location
Sunnyvale, CA
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Job overview

The Senior Designer on Apple’s Packaging Design team creates work from initial ideation through final production. The role explores and executes graphic design, typography, and illustration approaches while maintaining and elevating design systems across global product packaging. The team defines the look and feel of Apple product packaging and works collaboratively on core communications.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Graphic Design, requiredPackaging Design, requiredPrint Design, requiredTypography, requiredTypesetting, requiredBranding, requiredPhotography, requiredIllustration, requiredAdobe Creative Suite, requiredIllustrator, requiredInDesign, requiredPhotoshop, requiredKeynote, requiredAI Tools, nice to havePrint Mechanical Review, nice to haveLight-Room Proof Review, nice to have3D Tools, nice to haveMotion Tools, nice to haveKeyShot, nice to haveCinema 4D, nice to haveAfter Effects, nice to haveCommunication, nice to haveCollaboration, nice to haveAttention to Detail, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience, required4+ Years Graphic Design and Packaging Experience, required

Full job description

Role Number: 200694413-3956

Summary

Marcom is the creatively-led global team that oversees Apple’s consumer facing marketing. We ensure the flawless development and execution of world-class communications across all medias and platforms. Every day, hundreds of millions of Apple customers around the world interact with our products. We drive the strategy and creative work that provide both new and existing customers with simple, engaging and inspiring marketing experiences.

The Design Team is responsible for the design and art direction of core communications, including product launches and seasonal campaigns, across Retail, Channel, Packaging, Keynote, and Events. Working in a highly collaborative environment, the Design Packaging team defines the look and feel of all Apple Product Packaging.

Description

As a Senior Designer on the Packaging Design team, you will create innovative, compelling work from initial ideation through final production. In this role, you will explore and execute graphic design, typography, and illustration approaches while maintaining and elevating the quality of existing design systems across global product packaging for one of the world’s most recognizable brands.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • At least 4 years of experience in graphic design and packaging, with the ability to develop innovative creative work across print mediums.

  • A portfolio that showcases a strong command of typography, typesetting, branding, photography, and illustration.

  • Expert skills in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) and Keynote.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Comfortable using AI tools to develop and share concepts.

  • Proven experience with attention to detail in reviewing print mechanicals and light-room proofs.

  • Working experience with 3D and motion tools (e.g., KeyShot, Cinema 4D, After Effects).

  • Illustration skills.

  • Clear, confident communicator who can articulate ideas, engage in healthy debate, and take directional feedback from peers and leadership.

  • Collaborative, motivated designer who thrives in a dynamic creative environment and finds simple solutions to complex problems.

  • Genuinely curious about design, art, architecture, technology, culture, and trends across packaging, branding, retail, and social media.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

How this job compares

Set against the 633 open Graphic Designer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • California median$115–163K/yr46 salary ranges
  • US median$20–24/hr97 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 81 open Graphic Designer jobs in California and 633 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Graphic Designer postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (453 postings).
Education
155 of the 633 open Graphic Designer jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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