Product Designer 1

Garmin; Olathe (KS); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Garmin Benefits

Job summary

Garmin is seeking a Product Designer 1 for its U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. You will design user-centered interfaces, prototype features, and collaborate with engineering and product teams to deliver usable products.

The role emphasizes strong communication, presentation skills, and a solid understanding of UI design principles, supported by a bachelor’s degree in a related field and top academic performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Interactive Design, Human Factors, Visual Design or equivalent.
• Excellent academics (GPA ≥ 3.0) as a general rule.
• Proficiency creating prototypes with tools such as Figma.
• Excellent presentation, communication, and organizational skills.
• Understanding of good UI design: consistency, simplicity, usability.

Responsibilities

• Researches, designs and prototypes new user experiences for features and products.
• Communicates research and designs via mockups, storyboards and behavioral docs.
• Produces usable solutions for product interactions in response to user behavior.
• Assists with UI testing and usability studies to gather feedback.
• Collaborates with engineering and product managers to deliver solutions.
• Maintains UI consistency across product types and trends.

Skills

Prototype creation

UI/UX design

Presentation

Communication

Figma

Education

Bachelor's in Interactive Design or related

Tools

Figma

Adobe After Effects

Adobe InDesign

3D Studio Max

Adobe Flash

Job description

We are seeking a full-time Product Designer 1 at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. In this role, you will be responsible for understanding fundamental usability and user centred design principals to guide software user interface development for various products with different specifications.

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 centred 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

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