Job Description
The International Services team is looking for a visionary creative leader to oversee our global Photo, Video, and Illustration Art Buying organization. In this role, you’ll shape how we tell stories across still and motion content—ensuring consistency, creative excellence, and cultural relevance across platforms and regions. You’ll lead a geographically diverse team and balance high-level creative direction with operational execution, while supporting the growth and development of individuals across your team.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Photography, Video Production, and Illustration Art Buying teams supporting Apple’s design work across services including the App Store, Apple Books, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple TV.
- Collaborate closely with Producers and Creatives to develop content briefs that are strategically aligned and creatively ambitious.
- Oversee photo & live-action post-production processes, including photo & video editing, color grading, photo retouching, and sound design.
- Provide clear creative direction to ensure all work reflects a cohesive brand narrative and aesthetic.
- Present ideas and creative concepts with clarity, vision, and polish.
- Participate in creative reviews to ensure output meets the brief and maintains a unified visual language.
- Direct photo & video shoots that result in elevated, aspirational visuals across a range of deliverables.
- Manage complex budgets, vendor negotiations, contracts, and policy alignment with Business Affairs and cross-functional partners.
- Foster a team culture that values originality, quality, inclusion, and growth.
- Oversee research and licensing of stock imagery for requests across all international geos.
- Manage the archiving of assets, budgets, licenses, and fee negotiations with production agencies, stock agencies, and artists.
- Manage relationships with external artists and agencies, from photographers to illustrators to video directors.
- Guide our design team in selecting the most appropriate illustrators for any given project.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in photo art direction and/or video production
- Portfolio demonstrating high-level photography and video work, plus illustration curation
- Extensive knowledge of production workflows across still and motion
- Established network of global production companies and freelance talent
- Proven leadership experience in creative team environments
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
- Deep passion for photography, video, and illustration, with a broad knowledge of styles, artists, and trends
- Working knowledge of video editing process and tools (Final Cut, Premiere, After Effects)
- Experience through a wide variety of productions: Editorial, documentary, social
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in Asia or with Asia-based creative partners
- Strong track record of identifying and partnering with diverse creative talent, including photographers, stylists, and directors
- Comfortable working across time zones and cultures in a fast-paced global organization
About the Company
Apple is a detail-obsessed company that always puts customer experience first. It shows in the products we make, and also in the experience we create to help people understand and get the most out of those products. Like the team who designs the products, we share the goal of making everything we touch feel beautiful and elegantly simple.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity, and thus we treat all applicants fairly and equally. Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.