Event Experience Designer

Summary

Worldwide Events and Experiences brings the best of Apple to life, showcasing our products, services and the values that drive our company. From global product launches and tailored creator experiences to impactful partner engagements and inspiring internal events, this team is charged with managing the end-to-end planning, production, in person experiences and all the unique details that make these events special.

The team includes professionals with backgrounds in event design, management, operations, broadcast, and production. We’re looking for inventive and collaborative people from a variety of creative fields. If that’s you, then your next home may be here!

The Worldwide Events Team is seeking a well-rounded and highly creative Event Experiential Designer to support our Design & Fabrication team. This Team works with several teams across the company to bring Apple’s iconic brand and products to life for audiences around the world. From new product launches and keynotes to live productions and hands on experiences, the Design & Fabrication team is responsible for fostering design throughout the entire guest journey.

About the role

As an Experiential Designer, you’ll collaborate with the team to lead conceptualization and development of bespoke experiential activations that resonate with our core brand while being engaging and tell a compelling story. You’ll think through spatial layouts and experiential activations from conception to completion. You’re a highly creative, energetic, driven, and passionate individual.

Responsibilities

• Gathering inspiration, creating mood boards, and defining experiential concepts tailored for our content creator audience for output on platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.
• Staying ahead of emerging trends in events, social media, and brand activations in order lead brainstorms and define how we should up in social-first experiences.
• Creating compelling layouts and floor plans that consider the entire guest journey from start to finish to create the best possible experience.
• Conceptualizing and creating to-scale elevations and 3D renders based on event briefs.
• Communicating your ideas visually and verbally to our internal and external partners in a way that threads the needle on the overall event brief and brand goals.
• Conducting research and specifying new furniture and materials for both long-term and immediate event needs.
• Collaborating with multiple internal partners and vendors, from design-to-build fabrication and scenic implementation for events.
• Contributing to ongoing meetings with key vendor partners and cross-functional partners, and following up with action items.
• Creating presentation decks for leadership that convey concepts and have a strong point of view.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years experience within a top creative agency environment and/ or high-end fabrication and production company.
• Experience in SketchUp, Rhino and/or other 3D modeling & rendering tools, and proficient in the Adobe Suite and can edit and enhance your renders using tools like photoshop.
• Proficiency in Mac, Keynote, Numbers and other collaboration tools.
• Ability to travel both domestic & international and be on-site event and load-in/out over weekends, as needed.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end spatial design, CAD documentation, and photorealistic 3D visualization for live events, exhibitions, or brand activations.

Preferred Qualifications

• You are highly creative, with a background in design, and a deep understanding of space planning.
• You understand the content creator audience and what makes a space compelling and engaging for content capture.
• You have experience building out 2D & 3D spaces in CAD and can create realistic renders for visualization. You understand scale & space.

• You are a strong collaborator and clear communicator.
• You pay attention to the small details.
• You are highly organized, handling ambiguity with grace.

• You understand fixture and scenic fabrication and can create designs that come to life.
• You are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines and can communicate timelines across various deliverables, both internally and externally.