Product Designer 2
Posted on Oct 1, 2024 by Garmin International, Inc.
Olathe, KS
Manufacturing
Immediate Start
Annual Salary
Full-Time
Overview:
Garmin is seeking a full-time Product Designer 2 to join our Outdoor and Fitness group at our Olathe, KS location. You will be a part of a team designing user experiences for a highly diverse range of Garmin’s product interfaces including wearables, satellite communicators, golf, scuba diving, cycling, backcountry navigation, tactical tools and more. Your designs will help users explore the great outdoors, stay connected and enable rescues in remote locations, dive amongst coral reefs, enable performance athletes to train more effectively, and bring new levels of analysis to golfers around the world.
In this UX-focused role, you will be paired with a design mentor and be responsible for understanding, ideating, and creating compelling, well-crafted designs for new features and functions for many of our products. Success involves understanding and applying fundamental usability and user-centered design principles, working amongst many groups and stakeholders to hone your design, and guiding software user interface development, working closely with design leadership, software engineers, graphic artists, product managers, and other stakeholders of your assigned projects.
Responsibilities:
Essential Functions
Research, design and prototype user experiences for new features and products in a timely and organized manner
Communicate research and designs using mockups, story boarding, visual presentations and writing behavioral documentation
Produce creative, simple and highly usable solutions for how products interact in response to human behavior
Document clear, organized solutions that are highly understandable in flow, function and status by stakeholders, engineers, and unfamiliar eyes
Work closely with design leadership, software engineers, graphic artists, product managers and other stakeholders of the assigned project in determining design direction
Assist with new user interface testing and conduct usability tests to get feedback on new designs where applicable
Collaborate with and communicate to teams within product design, software engineering and management to produce superior solutions
Adapt designs as needed, expecting some ambiguity and change during a project
Maintain and ensure user interface design and behavioral consistency across product types
May contribute to advanced design research or concepting for new products or markets through research, prototyping, testing and open internal collaboration
Remain current on user interface design trends and competitors’ designs
Stay abreast with new prototyping, presentation or computer graphics techniques and software
Communicate status of work clearly and provide visibility to supervisor
May serve as mentor to designers with less experience (Product Designers 1)
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Interactive Design, Human Factors, Visual Design or a degree with an equivalent curriculum that teaches user centered design principles AND a minimum of 1 year relevant work experience OR a minimum of 5 years equivalent combination of education and relevant experience performing the essential functions of the Garmin Product Designer role
Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
Proficiency and exceptional skills in creating research, flows and prototypes using tools such as Figma
Demonstrates understanding and knowledge of good user interface design (consistency, simplicity, and usability).
Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skill
Desired Qualifications
Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)
Technical knowledge to bridge gaps between engineering and design environments
Deep curiosity for learning and an excitement for solving challenging problems
Passion for Garmin products or the experiences they seek to enhance
Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.
This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here:
Garmin is seeking a full-time Product Designer 2 to join our Outdoor and Fitness group at our Olathe, KS location. You will be a part of a team designing user experiences for a highly diverse range of Garmin’s product interfaces including wearables, satellite communicators, golf, scuba diving, cycling, backcountry navigation, tactical tools and more. Your designs will help users explore the great outdoors, stay connected and enable rescues in remote locations, dive amongst coral reefs, enable performance athletes to train more effectively, and bring new levels of analysis to golfers around the world.
In this UX-focused role, you will be paired with a design mentor and be responsible for understanding, ideating, and creating compelling, well-crafted designs for new features and functions for many of our products. Success involves understanding and applying fundamental usability and user-centered design principles, working amongst many groups and stakeholders to hone your design, and guiding software user interface development, working closely with design leadership, software engineers, graphic artists, product managers, and other stakeholders of your assigned projects.
Responsibilities:
Essential Functions
Research, design and prototype user experiences for new features and products in a timely and organized manner
Communicate research and designs using mockups, story boarding, visual presentations and writing behavioral documentation
Produce creative, simple and highly usable solutions for how products interact in response to human behavior
Document clear, organized solutions that are highly understandable in flow, function and status by stakeholders, engineers, and unfamiliar eyes
Work closely with design leadership, software engineers, graphic artists, product managers and other stakeholders of the assigned project in determining design direction
Assist with new user interface testing and conduct usability tests to get feedback on new designs where applicable
Collaborate with and communicate to teams within product design, software engineering and management to produce superior solutions
Adapt designs as needed, expecting some ambiguity and change during a project
Maintain and ensure user interface design and behavioral consistency across product types
May contribute to advanced design research or concepting for new products or markets through research, prototyping, testing and open internal collaboration
Remain current on user interface design trends and competitors’ designs
Stay abreast with new prototyping, presentation or computer graphics techniques and software
Communicate status of work clearly and provide visibility to supervisor
May serve as mentor to designers with less experience (Product Designers 1)
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Interactive Design, Human Factors, Visual Design or a degree with an equivalent curriculum that teaches user centered design principles AND a minimum of 1 year relevant work experience OR a minimum of 5 years equivalent combination of education and relevant experience performing the essential functions of the Garmin Product Designer role
Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
Proficiency and exceptional skills in creating research, flows and prototypes using tools such as Figma
Demonstrates understanding and knowledge of good user interface design (consistency, simplicity, and usability).
Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skill
Desired Qualifications
Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)
Technical knowledge to bridge gaps between engineering and design environments
Deep curiosity for learning and an excitement for solving challenging problems
Passion for Garmin products or the experiences they seek to enhance
Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.
This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here:
Reference: 202882911
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Product Designer 2
Posted on Oct 1, 2024 by Garmin International, Inc.
Olathe, KS
Manufacturing
Immediate Start
Annual Salary
Full-Time
Overview:
Garmin is seeking a full-time Product Designer 2 to join our Outdoor and Fitness group at our Olathe, KS location. You will be a part of a team designing user experiences for a highly diverse range of Garmin’s product interfaces including wearables, satellite communicators, golf, scuba diving, cycling, backcountry navigation, tactical tools and more. Your designs will help users explore the great outdoors, stay connected and enable rescues in remote locations, dive amongst coral reefs, enable performance athletes to train more effectively, and bring new levels of analysis to golfers around the world.
In this UX-focused role, you will be paired with a design mentor and be responsible for understanding, ideating, and creating compelling, well-crafted designs for new features and functions for many of our products. Success involves understanding and applying fundamental usability and user-centered design principles, working amongst many groups and stakeholders to hone your design, and guiding software user interface development, working closely with design leadership, software engineers, graphic artists, product managers, and other stakeholders of your assigned projects.
Responsibilities:
Essential Functions
Research, design and prototype user experiences for new features and products in a timely and organized manner
Communicate research and designs using mockups, story boarding, visual presentations and writing behavioral documentation
Produce creative, simple and highly usable solutions for how products interact in response to human behavior
Document clear, organized solutions that are highly understandable in flow, function and status by stakeholders, engineers, and unfamiliar eyes
Work closely with design leadership, software engineers, graphic artists, product managers and other stakeholders of the assigned project in determining design direction
Assist with new user interface testing and conduct usability tests to get feedback on new designs where applicable
Collaborate with and communicate to teams within product design, software engineering and management to produce superior solutions
Adapt designs as needed, expecting some ambiguity and change during a project
Maintain and ensure user interface design and behavioral consistency across product types
May contribute to advanced design research or concepting for new products or markets through research, prototyping, testing and open internal collaboration
Remain current on user interface design trends and competitors’ designs
Stay abreast with new prototyping, presentation or computer graphics techniques and software
Communicate status of work clearly and provide visibility to supervisor
May serve as mentor to designers with less experience (Product Designers 1)
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Interactive Design, Human Factors, Visual Design or a degree with an equivalent curriculum that teaches user centered design principles AND a minimum of 1 year relevant work experience OR a minimum of 5 years equivalent combination of education and relevant experience performing the essential functions of the Garmin Product Designer role
Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
Proficiency and exceptional skills in creating research, flows and prototypes using tools such as Figma
Demonstrates understanding and knowledge of good user interface design (consistency, simplicity, and usability).
Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skill
Desired Qualifications
Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)
Technical knowledge to bridge gaps between engineering and design environments
Deep curiosity for learning and an excitement for solving challenging problems
Passion for Garmin products or the experiences they seek to enhance
Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.
This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here:
Garmin is seeking a full-time Product Designer 2 to join our Outdoor and Fitness group at our Olathe, KS location. You will be a part of a team designing user experiences for a highly diverse range of Garmin’s product interfaces including wearables, satellite communicators, golf, scuba diving, cycling, backcountry navigation, tactical tools and more. Your designs will help users explore the great outdoors, stay connected and enable rescues in remote locations, dive amongst coral reefs, enable performance athletes to train more effectively, and bring new levels of analysis to golfers around the world.
In this UX-focused role, you will be paired with a design mentor and be responsible for understanding, ideating, and creating compelling, well-crafted designs for new features and functions for many of our products. Success involves understanding and applying fundamental usability and user-centered design principles, working amongst many groups and stakeholders to hone your design, and guiding software user interface development, working closely with design leadership, software engineers, graphic artists, product managers, and other stakeholders of your assigned projects.
Responsibilities:
Essential Functions
Research, design and prototype user experiences for new features and products in a timely and organized manner
Communicate research and designs using mockups, story boarding, visual presentations and writing behavioral documentation
Produce creative, simple and highly usable solutions for how products interact in response to human behavior
Document clear, organized solutions that are highly understandable in flow, function and status by stakeholders, engineers, and unfamiliar eyes
Work closely with design leadership, software engineers, graphic artists, product managers and other stakeholders of the assigned project in determining design direction
Assist with new user interface testing and conduct usability tests to get feedback on new designs where applicable
Collaborate with and communicate to teams within product design, software engineering and management to produce superior solutions
Adapt designs as needed, expecting some ambiguity and change during a project
Maintain and ensure user interface design and behavioral consistency across product types
May contribute to advanced design research or concepting for new products or markets through research, prototyping, testing and open internal collaboration
Remain current on user interface design trends and competitors’ designs
Stay abreast with new prototyping, presentation or computer graphics techniques and software
Communicate status of work clearly and provide visibility to supervisor
May serve as mentor to designers with less experience (Product Designers 1)
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Interactive Design, Human Factors, Visual Design or a degree with an equivalent curriculum that teaches user centered design principles AND a minimum of 1 year relevant work experience OR a minimum of 5 years equivalent combination of education and relevant experience performing the essential functions of the Garmin Product Designer role
Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
Proficiency and exceptional skills in creating research, flows and prototypes using tools such as Figma
Demonstrates understanding and knowledge of good user interface design (consistency, simplicity, and usability).
Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skill
Desired Qualifications
Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)
Technical knowledge to bridge gaps between engineering and design environments
Deep curiosity for learning and an excitement for solving challenging problems
Passion for Garmin products or the experiences they seek to enhance
Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.
This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here:
Reference: 202882911
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