Careers at Apple: Join our Apple Retail community. (original) (raw)
Welcome to a career built on community.
In Apple Retail, we help each other grow within our roles — and beyond them.
With that foundation, your passion and values will drive you forward.
That’s what happens when you bring who you are to what you do.
What’s in store for you?
Explore some of our roles to see which match your interests.
Specialist
Discover customers’ needs, then follow up with the right solutions. You guide and advise the customer, and help set up their new products.
Business Expert
Connect business professionals and entrepreneurs with the products they need to help them build success.
Technical Specialist
Help new owners get started and help current owners troubleshoot their mobile devices.
Creative
Use your own creative talents to inspire customers. You’ll help them bring their interests and imagination to life with Apple products and services.
Manager
Lead teams, provide supportive feedback and ensure both your team members and your customers have a valued experience.
Genius
Provide insightful advice and friendly, hands-on technical support. You also spend time behind the scenes, solving problems and repairing products.
Get to know our roles — so you can choose yours.
Sales
Introduce people to the Apple products that help them do what they love in new ways.
Support
Use your creativity or technical skills to help others bring their interests to life.
Leadership
Develop and inspire diverse teams that deliver amazing customer experiences.
Sales
Introduce people to the Apple products that help them do what they love in new ways.
Up front or behind the scenes, wherever you work in the Apple Store, you’ll have the chance to make a big difference — for your customers, your team and yourself. You may even work with local business communities, connecting entrepreneurs and professionals with the tools they need to build success.
Roles include Specialist, Expert, Pro, Operations Expert, Business Expert and Business Pro.
Featured Roles:
Who you are
You’re energised by interactions with other people and you thrive in a collaborative, team-centric environment.
What you’ll do
Discover customers’ needs, then follow up with the right solutions. You guide and advise the customer, and help set up their new products.
Find available Specialist roles
Who you are
You’re skilled at nurturing and evolving relationships, and passionate about Apple products and services. You keep your finger on the pulse of innovation in business technology.
What you’ll do
Connect business professionals and entrepreneurs with the products they need to help them build success.
Find available Business Expert roles
Support
Use your creativity or technical skills to help others bring their interests to life.
Bring your people skills and we’ll help you with the technical skills. Some roles focus on repairs and technical issues, so if you have a talent for hands-on problem solving, you’ll address customers’ needs by reconnecting them with the Apple experience they love. In other roles, you’ll help customers bring their projects to life: You might troubleshoot with one person, show another how to retouch their photos or even teach a child to code.
Roles include Technical Specialist, Genius, Creative and Creative Pro.
Featured Roles:
Who you are
You’re a natural problem solver with a passion for technology and a knack for connecting with others. Adaptable and quick-thinking, you’re able to explain complex information in terms that anyone can understand.
What you’ll do
Help new owners get started and help current owners troubleshoot their mobile devices.
Find available Technical Specialist roles
Who you are
You thrive in a fast-paced environment, but always make time for meaningful connections. You’re knowledgable about Apple products, and you have an aptitude for helping others.
What you’ll do
Provide insightful advice and friendly, hands-on technical support. You also spend time behind the scenes, solving problems and repairing products.
Find available Genius roles
Who you are
You’re a natural teacher, who loves to instruct and inspire others in a hands-on environment. Sharing what you love directly with others is how you connect with the world.
What you’ll do
Use your own creative talents to inspire customers and show them how to bring their interests and imagination to life with Apple products and services.
Find available Creative roles
Leadership
Develop and inspire diverse teams that deliver amazing customer experiences.
You’ll lead through inspiration, using our culture of open, honest feedback to help each team member grow and deliver exceptional customer experiences. You’ll also build relationships with the local community and its businesses, creating an atmosphere where all are welcome.
Roles include Manager, Senior Manager, Store Leader, and Market Leader.
Find available Leadership roles
Featured Roles:
Who you are
You are hands-on, enjoy a challenge, and are naturally focused on planning and prioritisation.
What you’ll do
Lead teams, provide supportive feedback, and ensure both your team members and your customers have a valued experience.
Find available Manager roles
Who you are
You’re a communicator first and foremost. You’re also a quick, decisive thinker who enjoys solving complex problems.
What you’ll do
Help drive your store’s vision and purpose, develop other managers, and support the Store Leader with business strategies and critical decision-making.
Find available Senior Manager roles
One Apple, many paths.
From day one, my managers supported my ambition to grow into the leader I am today.
When Carissa began her career at Apple as a part-time Specialist, her store’s leadership team had even more of an effect on her growth than she expected.
“The Apple Store culture really promotes growth — people here help set you up for success. There’s the general support we all get to help us develop our careers, but the leaders here also work with your specific interests and talents. My managers saw something in me, saw that I had the potential to contribute as a leader at some point, so they nurtured that side of me. That really motivated me.”
Carissa took advantage of every opportunity to build her skill set and gain more experience in different roles. Helping roll out the training program for Apple’s first wearable, Apple Watch, she found herself thriving in a range of new career experiences within the store, ultimately being promoted into management.
Now, as a Senior Manager, Carissa is providing support and encouragement for her team members as they pursue their own path at Apple. “It’s now my job to help them reach their career goals, here in the store or in another part of Apple. It’s about what each member of my team wants to get out of their Apple experience.”
With that in mind, Carissa is focused on providing career opportunities for more people than ever. Having joined several of Apple’s Diversity Network Associations, she’s cultivated relationships with other managers around the world and applied what she’s learnt to her work. “Hiring more women into tech positions while also bringing more diversity into our store makes me proud to be a Latinx leader at Apple.”
It feels good here, because I’m always growing. And helping others do the same.
After a 30-year career in video production, Tom joined the Creative team for his first experience working in retail. Everyone brings something different to their work, and Tom brought creativity and technical experience. By combining those skills with the core Apple Store training everyone receives, as well as additional Creative Pro training, he was able to build a foundation for a new career.
“People come in with some incredible ideas for their projects, and they feel great when I help them bring those ideas to life. Truth is, I feel great, too.”
Tom helps people discover the endless possibilities of what they can do with Apple products. Drawing on his strengths as a natural teacher, he’s found success in leading Today at Apple sessions in the store as well as virtual sessions online. He also considers it a bonus that, while he’s teaching others, he picks up new bits of knowledge along the way.
“I’ve learned so much by exploring different things with my customers. In the store, we have this wonderful approach to the customer experience called ‘Let’s find out together.’ I love how each conversation begins a shared interest in learning something new.”
Tom’s enthusiasm for connecting with others has given him a bit of a following. “Over the years, I’ve built great relationships with many of our regular customers. It’s such a joy to come to work every day, where people come in and thank me for what I love to do.”
This gives me the chance to focus on my degree and build a career at the same time.
Serene wanted to work part-time while at university, and the Apple Store offered her that and more. The flexible schedule that worked around her course load was a must-have, and the education expense benefits were a love-to-have.
“Working at Apple has actually made me rethink my academic goals. Through my experience as a Technical Specialist, I grew to realise how much I enjoy working with technology and switched my major to computer engineering. The tuition reimbursement program helped make that possible.”
Serene believes that her store’s leadership has been instrumental in her ability to envision a long-term career at Apple after graduation. “Apple really provides you with all the resources to succeed — right now and throughout your career here. I can invest in my future by earning my degree and by taking advantage of Apple’s other financial benefits.”
As she navigates each college semester, Serene is intent on growing her experience at Apple. Next up, she’s planning on becoming a Technical Expert, and looking forward to adding new certifications and training programs to her skill set.
“Believe it or not, it was kind of a childhood dream to work at the Apple Store. And now, as I focus on both my education and my career, I have new Apple dreams.”
The Apple Store is hiring now.
Many locations have immediate openings for these positions.
Part-time roles for full-time lives.
As a busy new mother, Arlinda had very specific job criteria in mind. “I was looking for stable, part-time work as I learned to balance life and parenthood. I came in with no tech experience and I’m doing great, thanks to the training and my team.”
Apple Benefits
Resources that matter. Because you do.
We know that everyone’s life experiences are different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits for all our full-time — and part-time — team members.
Locations
Find community within your community.
A career with Apple may be closer than you think.
Start at Apple and you start a career.
We offer the support you’ll need to thrive in whichever path you choose here.
Opportunity
If you love to learn and grow, there’s no limit to the possibilities you’ll find in Apple Retail.
Training
No matter where you start, you’ll receive the information and guidance you need to succeed in your first role and any that follow.
Growth
Whether it’s coaching or customised development plans, you’ll be supported by your team and leadership as you explore your potential.
Shared Values
Where personal and professional values meet.
Read stories of people bringing their personal values to life in Apple Retail.