Description

Summary
Posted: Nov 21, 2023
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200517983

We are looking for an experienced Product Designer to craft usable, valuable, and delightful user experiences for key applications and tools applications that enable the manufacturing of every Apple product you know and love.
You should have a passion for product design, UI, and UX; have a knack for digging deep into user problems to understand and empathize with an active and opinionated user base; and drive a team to simple and elegant solutions to hard, complex design problems.
You value working cross-functionally, and want to collaborate closely with your team of product managers, UI/UX designers, and software developers, as well as vendors, stakeholders, and other roles across Apple.
We believe software product development is a team sport and we engage in thoughtful and respectful debate to drive the best outcomes. We believe in going deep on user research and data analysis to decide where we would should go next with our products, we believe in delivering iterative features quickly and continuously improving our products and processes, and we are a strong design- and product-led organization. We love talking to and working with our users every day to enable them to do their best work.

This role will require some travel within China and annually to the US.

Key Qualifications

Key Qualifications
• 5+ years UI/UX experience leading design in a software team: prototyping, designing, and shipping full-stack software products
• 8+ years experience working with product managers, designers, and software developers in a cross-functional team
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Mandarin Chinese
• Demonstrated ability of taking a user-centric approach in everything you do to define, test, and iterate on UI/UX (e.g. user research, usability studies, A/B testing)
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain design systems and frontend component systems at scale
• Excellent collaborative skills, and demonstrated ability to work cross-functionality with developers and other designers
• Expertise in UI/UX wireframing and design tools, such as Sketch or Figma
• Experience working with globally distributed teams/remotely and able to collaborate easily with tools like Webex and Miro
• Experience with manufacturing processes, consumer product design, and mechanical engineering is not required - but you must have an interest in learning about these areas and becoming deeply familiar with this domain

Description

Description
- Conceive, design, and deliver user experiences and user flows, taking complex user actions and distilling them into usable interfaces
- Collaborate with product managers to balance prioritization and break down features into iterative user stories
- Collaborate with software developers to understand technical limitations and constraints and be able to iterate on solutions and craft viable and usable MVP-style features
- Present and communicate lo-fi mockups, interaction design, hi-fi user flows, prototypes, and other design docs to the product team, stakeholder groups, and organizational leadership
- Be able to clearly articulate design rationale and prioritize feedback to iterate rapidly as we learn more through the design exploration process
- Be able to influence and gain alignment from others while being accountable for bringing critical thinking and product design strategy into all product design work
- Ship experiences that are delightful to our users
- Deeply understand and empathize with our users’ needs and painpoints

Education & Experience

Education & Experience
All education backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Additional Requirements

Additional Requirements
• About Us
• The Manufacturing Design team enables the mass production of Apple’s entire product line from iPhones, iPads and MacBooks to the Mac Pro, AppleTV and Apple Watch. Part of the magic that makes all of this possible is a robust set of applications and systems designed and developed by Apple that support the production of a product from prototype to announcement and beyond.