Product Designer 2 - Cycling

Summary

Garmin is a leading company in outdoor and fitness device experiences, and they are seeking a Product Designer 2 to join their team. The role involves designing user experiences for cycling products and collaborating with various stakeholders to create effective and user-centered designs.

Responsibilities

• 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)

Skills

• 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, usability)
• Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• 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

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 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, usability)
• 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

• Garmin's benefit program