Furniture Showfloor Designer

Socket.dev; Englewood (CO); On-site; USD 24,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly pay

Vacation and sick pay

Benefits package

401k matching

Job summary

American Furniture Warehouse is seeking a Show Floor Visual Designer to create eye-catching displays that attract customers and boost sales. You will design with color, lighting, and props, and work with AFW’s Staging team to deliver inviting show floors.

You will partner with multiple departments to implement seasonal initiatives, prepare products for merchandising, and maintain brand standards across all displays.

Qualifications

• Interior design degree or visual merchandising experience.
• Able to work with multiple departments to improve processes and service.
• Independent worker with strong teamwork skills in a fast paced retail setting.
• Learn and apply new technologies including Storis, iPads, Excel and Word.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Staging Manager to prepare seasonal merchandising presentations.
• Prepare product in the warehouse for merchandising.
• Collaborate with store management on visual decisions impacting workload and sales.
• Develop display themes and color schemes with buying teams.
• Pull and style new products to create seasonally aligned displays.
• Maintain brand standards by updating vignettes and ready displays.
• Plan floor moves and product refreshes with staging and warehouse teams.
• Identify reports and UPC labels and read tickets for merchandising tasks.

Skills

Visual merchandising

Team player

Strong communication

Attention to detail

Education

Interior design degree

Visual merchandising experience

Tools

Storis

iPads

Excel

Word

Job description

Job Overview

The Show Floor Visual Designer willcreate imaginative, eye-catching merchandise displays to attract customers' attention and drive sales by utilizing design concepts, color schemes, lighting, and display props. In addition, the Show Floor Visual Designerwill work with AFW Management and the Staging team to create an inviting show floor for our customers.

Shift: Monday-Friday

Job Expectations & Duties

Typical duties include but are not limited to:

• Commitment to AFW’s safety policies and procedures and ability to promote safety awareness.
• Partners with the Staging Manager to prepare for and implement seasonal merchandising presentations and new visual merchandising initiatives.
• Processing product in the warehouse to get it ready to be merchandised.
• Partners with store management on key visual merchandising decisions that impact workload and sales.
• Researching to get an understanding of what is needed and coming up with design ideas.
• Tasked with visual design and staging, partnering with buying teams to develop effective display themes and color schemes.
• Regularly pulls, unpacks, and styles new products to create compelling and shoppable visual displays that align with seasonal themes and store standards.
• Maintains brand presentation standards by continuously updating vignettes and ensuring displays are clean, complete, and customer ready.
• Collaborates daily with staging, warehouse, and buying teams to plan and execute floor moves, product refreshes, and featured displays.
• Ability to utilize basic design concepts to enhance showroom presentation.
• Ability to understand and interpret AFW visual merchandising tools and direction.
• Ability to offer solutions to store-specific visual and merchandising challenges using brand standards.
• Actively participate in annual show floor inventory scans.
• Make specific new merchandise displayed as soon as it is received.
• Identifying and reading reports, tickets, and UPC labels.
• Ability to efficiently work independently under direct supervision.
• Maintain a clean and safe work environment.
• All training provided by AFW

Job Requirements

• Interior design degree or related field of education OR visual merchandising/or similar experience.
• Coordinate and work effectively with multiple departments to continuously improve processes, maximize efficiency, and exceed customer service expectations.
• Ability to efficiently work independently under direct supervision.
• Work as a team member by interacting and communicating with fellow associates in a cooperative and constructive way.
• Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies including but not limited to Storis, iPads, Excel, Word, etc.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule that meets business needs, including evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Education & Experience

Interior design degree OR at least 1 year of visual merchandising/or similar experience preferred.

Compensation

Pay: Starting at $2 and up - Dependent on experience and education!

At AFW we offer great perks: weekly pay, vacation and sick pay, benefits package (medical, dental, vision) and 401k matching!

Physical Requirements

• Requires the ability to maneuver in confined and, at times, congested areas.
• Requires the ability to stand, walk, stoop, & bend for 8 hours daily.
• Requires constant use of arms, hands, fingers, eyes, legs, and back.
• Requires lift, lower, push and pull merchandise and display props of 50 Lbs.
• The Show Floor Visual Designer position requires lifting, bending, kneeling, stooping, and moving display props and accessories.

Work Environment

• Fluorescent Lighting
• Concrete Flooring
• The climate is affected by external conditions, including extreme heat and cold.
• Considerable exterior noise
• Extreme temperature fluctuations in the warehouse

American Furniture Warehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V. Working Safely is a Condition of Employment at American Furniture Warehouse – an Affirmitive Action Employer M/F/D/V.

A pre-employment drug screen, background and fit for duty exam check must be passed upon job offer.

Pay Grade: $17.71-32.89