Location: Olathe, KS
URL: http://www.garmin.com/careers
Provide supervision and leadership to the production art team. Direct and coordinate activities for art production for Garmin's consumer products. Be responsible for the overall workflow and accountability for a team of production artist. Coordinate with the user experience team leaders and project leads to set production art priorities, but yet remaining hands-on for precise job execution.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Lead and mentor Production Artists with diverse capability levels.
- Directly supervise production artist team members with daily observation, assuring appropriate attendance, and providing assistance to team members
- Work with Human Resources to address employee relations issues as needed including writing and conducting annual performance evaluations
- Be responsible for the growth and success of a production art team by overseeing training and mentoring of new associates
- Schedule jobs based on project priorities and manage a scheduling system for each project aiming for specific software development milestones Work closely with user experience design teams to give visualization ideas to new design concepts
- Report on the status of jobs in progress
- Ensure graphics are finalized and delivered on time to the software teams
- Ensure graphic designs maintain consistency across product lines
- Oversee the art production process to improve efficiency
- Evaluate positive performance within team members and address performance issues in a timely manner
- Manage the collection and maintenance of graphic assets in appropriate repository area for the software engineering department
- Partner with user experience designer and software engineers to understand complete requirements for tasks
- Keep track and estimate resources and time needed to get tasks done by negotiating deadlines when necessary
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist with the creation of the digital artwork
- Stay abreast of graphic trends being used in other consumer products
- Participate in interviewing and other recruiting activities for the production artist position
- Maintain up to date knowledge with new graphic productions technologies, software and tools
- Direct, design/create concept ideas for the entire team
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned
Please note: this position reports into the Engineering department.
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:
- Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communications or a related field / equivalent education
- 4 years of related production art or graphics design experience
- 4 years leadership experience production design environment
- Strong graphics design background
- Experience with Adobe design software (Photoshop, Illustrator)
- Must be flexible and able to work in a fast paced, demanding environment
- Must be able to communicate ideas and directions clearly both verbally and written
- Ability to assign work and responsibilities effectively to ensure efficient workload for each team member.
- Must be able to interact positively with other teams
- Must be organized and have the ability to prioritize and delegate tasks efficiently to ensure proper workload for each team member
- Excellent art directing skills
- Strong portfolio which demonstrates successful and a high quality body of work in design/art
- Have the ability to increase team members ownership and accountability to encourage high quality work
- Must be team-oriented, possess a positive attitude and work well with others
- Must be flexible and able to work accurately in a fast paced environment
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS:
- 8+ years leadership experience in a production design environmentExperience in Visual Communications or Graphic Design
EEO/AA/M/F/D/V
To apply: Please apply online at http://www.garmin.com/careers
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