
Instructional Designer - Instructional Products
Required skills
- instructional design
- education
- complex features
- clear steps
- data-informed decisions
- project management
- writing craft
- content design
- style
- grammar
Nice to have
- AI tools
- information design
- UX
- prototyping
- layout
- interaction
Role summary
Apple's Instructional Products team is seeking an Instructional Designer to create customer-facing materials for software, hardware, and services. This role involves understanding user needs, designing effective information presentation, and executing with precision at the intersection of writing and content design. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineers, designers, editors, and legal reviewers. The position requires strong language skills, the ability to simplify complex information, experience using data for content decisions, and managing multiple projects. Familiarity with AI tools and experience in information design, UX, or prototyping are preferred.
Description
Instructional Products is seeking an Instructional Designer to develop customer-facing materials for software, hardware, and services products. At the core of the work, our Instructional Designers figure out what users need to know, decide the best way to present that information, then execute their plan with precision. That means working at the intersection of writing craft and content design, moving between big-picture decisions about structure and organization and the close work of getting sentences exactly right. The role spans a wide range of products, formats, and release cycles, which requires frequent context-switching and shifting priorities. You'll work closely with engineers, designers, and product managers to understand what you're writing about, and with editors, graphic designers, legal reviewers, and other writers to make sure what ships is excellent. AI is part of how this team works — not as a shortcut, but as a tool that's actively changing what's possible in content work. We're looking for people who will keep pushing on what’s possible.
Minimum Qualifications
A love for words and language, with strong opinions about style, grammar, tone, and voice. Background in technical writing, instructional design, education, or a related field. Ability to break down complex features or procedures into clear, sequenced steps. Experience using data to make informed content decisions. Able to manage work across multiple concurrent projects with overlapping timelines.
Preferred Qualifications
Curiosity about AI tools and how they're changing content work. Comfortable working across disciplines to create shared deliverables. Experience in information design, UX, or prototyping — thinking about layout, interaction, or format as part of the solution, not just the content.
Sample Apple interview questions
- 1
Architect a big data ingestion system focusing entirely on reliability and backpressure management during unpredictable traffic events.
system designmedium - 2
Break down the system design for a global digital learning environment including video hosting and user progress tracking.
system designmedium - 3
How do you architect a risk system that dynamically shifts its strictness based on the merchants tolerance for fraud?
system designmedium - 4
Break down the data pipeline required to serve live ad performance statistics to a client dashboard.
system designmedium - 5
Let us build the backend for a smart parking garage. How do you manage inventory and process payments in real time?
system designmedium
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