Apple
Senior Design Manager, Design Studio - Employee Experience & Engineering
$268K–$402K
Sunnyvale, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted May 27, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years in product design, including at least 7 years managing design teams.
About the job
Leads Apple’s Design Studio, managing designers and guiding the design quality and delivery of employee-facing products across Apple.
What you'll do
- Manage, hire, and develop product designers, providing day-to-day direction and performance support.
- Set design quality and standards across the portfolio, and lead product design from discovery through delivery.
- Partner with engineering and product leaders to define direction, prioritize work, and represent design in leadership decisions.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of product design experience, including at least 7 years managing design teams.
- Experience designing for Apple platforms (iOS, macOS, iPadOS), including HIG, platform conventions, and native interaction patterns.
- Strong portfolio of shipped enterprise and consumer products demonstrating design quality at scale.
- Experience managing design across multiple concurrent product workstreams.
Nice to have
- Strong collaboration with engineering and product management; comfortable balancing quality with delivery timelines in ambiguous settings.
- Executive-level communication and presentation skills; enterprise product experience is a plus.
Pay
USD $267,800 to $401,700 base salary
Tools
iOS, macOS, iPadOS, HIG
AI focus
Requires responsible use of data and AI as part of ethical design practices; no specific AI product work is stated.
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