Senior Designer - Furniture Dealer

Description

• Conduct furniture needs analyses to define requirements for implementing designs.
• Generate and manage custom products/specials, COM testing, shop, and submittal drawings.
• Use the EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) methodology to provide tools to help individuals and teams achieve goals, growth, and improvement.
• Partner with the sales team as a primary point of contact for customers, ensuring clear communication and satisfaction throughout the process.
• Coordinate and advise with AV, plumbing, data, and electrical vendors to ensure seamless integration with furniture layouts.
• Leads site visits and field verifications to ensure accurate on-site assessments.
• Prepare information for labor quotes, providing insights for project planning.
• Ensures accuracy by performing thorough spec checks and cross-verifying work with team members to maintain high-quality standards.
• Create final furniture specifications (specs) and pricing.
• Effectively prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects efficiently.
• Create comprehensive installation drawing packages.
• Develop innovative and effective solutions that add value and enhance product application techniques to design solutions.
• Quarterly All Company Meetings
• Mentors and supports other designers, providing guidance and fostering their professional growth and development.
• Maintains organized and up-to-date email communications, file structures, and drawings, ensuring easy access and efficient retrieval of information.
• Builds and maintains client design standards programs, ensuring consistency and quality across all projects.
• Prepare and independently runs design meetings with industry partners and end users.
• Conveys ideas effectively through well-crafted detailed drawings, and comprehensive spec books, presenting them in a thoughtful manner.
• Efficiently manage workload, making decisions independently and advocating for personal priorities.

Requirements

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient product knowledge and application, including experience with Herman Miller and Knoll products.
• Extensive experience in the furniture dealership environment, with a strong understanding of industry practices and standards.
• Ability to use your talents and strengths to make a positive impact
• Advanced skill in translating complex design concepts into precise drawings and specifications, with a strong attention to detail.
• 6+ years of industry experience, preferably at a commercial furniture dealer.
• Initiative in self-guided learning to continuously enhance product and industry knowledge and share with others.
• Proven experience presenting to clients, demonstrating a collaborative approach to securing business.
• Confident and self-reliant in navigating the entire design process, with a proven ability to progress projects with minimal oversight, serving as a mentor and leader to less experienced team members.
• Customer Experience
• Successfully work both independently and as a leader within a collaborative team, guiding and mentoring others to success.
• Strong ability to build and maintain strategic relationships with vendors and industry partners, leveraging these connections for mutual success.
• Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop. The employee may occasionally lift and /or move up to 20 pounds. This position may require travel between offices, jobsites, and/or client locations, which may involve extended periods of sitting or standing, lifting light luggage, and adapting to different time zones.
• Expertise in assessing architectural field conditions and understanding building system interfaces with furniture.
• Proficient in AutoCAD, CET, CAP, Bluebeam, Microsoft Office Suite, and commercial furniture industry software; willingness to learn new systems.
• Requires local travel to job sites for on-site assessments and in-person customer meetings
• Bachelor’s degree in interior design or equivalent
• Demonstrate skill in selling design solutions, effectively integrating sales and design to meet client needs.
• Extensive knowledge of interior commercial construction, architecture, design, real estate, and contract furnishings, acquired through years of experience.

Benefits

• Company paid Short Term and Long Term Disability insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• A State-of-the-Art Facility with incredible technology throughout and a multitude of workspaces at your disposal
• Community Service opportunities
• Paid time off and holidays
• HSA, DCA and FSA options available
• Critical Illness and Accident Insurance
• Company social hours
• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• 401k Match (50% of every 1% up to 4%)

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance