Overview
We are seeking a full-time Product Designer 1 to join the Outdoor and Fitness Device Experience team at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. 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.
Essential Functions
- Researches, designs and prototypes new user experiences for new features and products
- Communicates research and designs using mockups, story boarding, visual presentations and writing behavioral documentation
- Produces creative, simple, and highly usable solutions for how products interact in response to human behavior
- Assists with new user interface testing and conduct usability tests to get feedback on new designs
- Collaborates with and communicate to teams in engineering and product managers to produce superior solutions
- Maintains and ensure user interface design and behavioral consistency across product types
- Remains current on user interface design trends and competitors’ design
- Stays abreast with new prototyping, presentation or computer graphics techniques and software
- Applies design standards and procedures to implement basic designs and applies engineering tools when needed
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
- Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
- Proficiency and exceptional skills in creating different types of prototypes or mock-ups using tools such as Figma
- Excellent presentation, communication, and organizational skills
- Demonstrates understanding and knowledge of good user interface design (consistency, simplicity, usability)
Desired Qualifications
- Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)
- Experience in graphics production, graphics editing technology, motion graphics, interactive design works and/or videography.
- Software skills using Adobe Flash or After Affects, Adobe InDesign, and/or 3D Studio Max
- 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 Benefits
