CMF Designer

Responsibilities:

Work directly with industrial design, engineering, marketing and leadership to create compelling color, material, and finish solutions for consumer products sold worldwide. A Garmin CMF Designer leads and supports the selection of colors and materials for consumer products collaborating with Industrial Design, Engineering, Marketing, and Leadership teams to explore, innovate, and execute world-class designs. You will utilize your knowledge of category-specific consumer trends to improve product appearance. Develop CMF strategies, color and materials development, and push through to production implementation with the design team across all Garmin products. Apply color palette and CMF strategies into CMF programs through renderings and trays for Garmin’s consumer products across business segments. Forecast global macro trend themes and resulting color, material, finish, and texture innovations for our business segments. Curate compelling global segment trend forecasts from cross-industry trend research and CMF strategies for distribution to cross-functional teams. Provide thought leadership for material development for a broad range of materials and push those developments into production. Understanding, articulating, and developing against a color strategy, synthesizing elements from the global, cross-industry trends, curated to category-specific implementation toward niche business segments. Maintain color and material library . Communicate concepts and ideas through verbal, visual, and written means. Work with a team of prototype specialists to create color and material targets. Collaborate and strategize with Industrial Design, Engineering, Marketing and Leadership teams to translate project goals into CMF design solutions. Collaborate with the global CMF design and engineering team in Taiwan and Kansas City for CMF production and opportunities for materials innovation . Demonstrates proficient knowledge of a wide variety of materials and manufacturing methods including, but not limited to: plastic, silicone, metals, coatings, and more. Demonstrates proficient presentation skills.