Product Designer

Canon’s in-house product design group covers consumer and professional products, from cameras, lenses, network cameras, head-mounted displays and printers to medical, industrial and commercial printing equipment. Designers shape products’ form, functions and usability based on user and workplace understanding, contributing across business areas from early concepts through product development. The remit also includes advance design studies and proposals for emerging business fields. Designers begin with observation and user research, then develop concepts through analysis, hand sketches, CG, MR and VR ideation, and prototyping. Assignments may include research into materials, prototypes and solution proposals for new businesses, product design development, and media promotion after launch. They collaborate with interface, visual, usability and research specialists, as well as research, development, planning, production and sales teams. Applicants need practical product-design experience and skills with design tools such as 3D CAD, along with the ability to visualize ideas and communicate effectively.