Garmin International - Olathe, KS

posted 4 months ago

Full-time - Senior
Olathe, KS
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

As a Senior Product Designer at Garmin, you will play a pivotal role in shaping user experiences for new features and products. Your primary responsibilities will include researching, designing, and prototyping user experiences in a timely and organized manner. You will communicate your research and designs through various mediums such as mockups, storyboarding, visual presentations, and behavioral documentation. Your goal will be to produce creative, simple, and highly usable solutions that respond effectively to human behavior. You will document clear and organized solutions that are easily understandable by stakeholders, engineers, and those unfamiliar with the project. Collaboration is key in this role; you will work closely with design leadership, software engineers, graphic artists, product managers, and other stakeholders to determine the design direction for assigned projects. Additionally, you will assist with new user interface testing and conduct usability tests to gather feedback on new designs where applicable. Your role will also involve adapting designs as needed, as you can expect some ambiguity and change during projects. You will maintain and ensure user interface design and behavioral consistency across product types. There may be opportunities for you to contribute to advanced design research or concepting for new products or markets through research, prototyping, testing, and open internal collaboration. Staying current on user interface design trends and competitors' designs will be essential, as will keeping abreast of new prototyping, presentation, or computer graphics techniques and software. You will communicate the status of your work clearly and provide visibility to your supervisor. Additionally, you may serve as a mentor to less experienced designers (Product Designers 1 & 2).

Responsibilities

  • Research, design and prototype user experiences for new features and products in a timely and organized manner
  • Communicate research and designs using mockups, storyboarding, 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
  • 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
  • Serve as mentor to designers with less experience (Product Designers 1 & 2)

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in User Experience Design, Interactive Design, Human Factors, Visual Design or a degree with an equivalent curriculum that teaches user centered design principles
  • Minimum of 5 years relevant work experience OR a minimum of 9 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)
  • Proven track record with leading design direction for multiple projects, and ensuring effective project planning leads to timely completion of project goals/objectives
  • Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

Nice-to-haves

  • 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

Benefits

  • Eligible for Garmin's benefit program
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