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About the Role
Apple Corps Ltd. and Universal Music Group UK are forming a dedicated team to shape the future of Beatles products, e-commerce, retail, and customer experience. This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of music, culture, creativity, commerce, and fan engagement, contributing to exceptional products and experiences for global Beatles fans.
Responsibilities
- Create and develop design concepts for products, graphics, packaging, and marketing materials, adhering to the brand's creative direction.
- Contribute ideas during brainstorming, range development, and design reviews.
- Manage pack-shot and product photography requirements, including preparing briefs and coordinating shoots.
- Oversee asset organization and ensure imagery meets brand standards.
- Prepare accurate artwork, layouts, and production-ready files for manufacturing, print, and digital channels.
- Ensure all files meet technical specifications for suppliers and printers.
- Adapt existing creative assets into new formats, colorways, SKU extensions, and campaign variations.
- Maintain visual accuracy and brand consistency across all design outputs.
- Collaborate with senior designers or creative leads to refine concepts and finalize ideas.
- Support the preparation of presentations, boards, mock-ups, and prototypes.
- Liaise with manufacturers, printers, or production teams to ensure design feasibility and quality.
- Communicate specifications, amends, and approval points clearly to external partners.
- Apply brand guidelines, visual identity rules, and licensing requirements consistently.
- Help maintain and evolve internal design standards and templates.
- Manage assigned design tasks efficiently to meet deadlines across multiple projects.
- Flag potential risks early and support smooth end-to-end project delivery.
Requirements
- Strong portfolio demonstrating design development, artwork accuracy, brand consistency, and cross-format adaptability.
- Sufficient experience in design within retail, consumer, lifestyle, apparel, or related creative industries.
- Experience preparing artwork, production files, and technical deliverables.
- Experience collaborating with suppliers, printers, or production partners.
- Familiarity with photography processes, including managing shoots or preparing briefs.
- Confident working within established brand guidelines.
- Experience across both product and graphic design is desirable.
- Exposure to packaging design or 3D visualization tools is desirable.
- Experience working within multi-brand or fast-paced retail environments is desirable.
- Understanding of licensing, approvals, and brand governance is desirable.
- Knowledge of sustainability considerations within design and production is desirable.
Skills
- Strong layout, typography, and visual design skills across digital and print.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign).
- Good understanding of materials, print processes, and production requirements.
- Ability to create clean, accurate artwork and technically sound production files.
- Strong organizational skills, including file structuring and asset management.
- Ability to work methodically.
- Confident in adapting and extending existing creative into new formats.
- Comfortable taking constructive feedback and iterating quickly.
Experience Level
- Mid-weight
About the Company
- Universal Music Group is the world's leading music company.
- Apple Corps Ltd. was founded in 1968 to oversee The Beatles’ creative and business interests.
- Apple Corps initially served as the new outlet for The Beatles’ own recordings and a wide-ranging roster of artists.
- Apple Corps’ mission celebrates artistry in an inclusive, creative environment.
- The company has encompassed music, publishing, merchandise, electronic, and film enterprises.
- Apple Corps has consistently brought The Beatles' music to billions of fans through pioneering and creative means for almost six decades.
- Universal Music Group UK Talent Acquisition team will manage the recruitment process in collaboration with Apple Corps and the wider UMG team.
Equal Opportunity
- Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities.
- We recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
- We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles.
- If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email UniversalMusicCareers@umusic.com.