What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Hospitality Custom Designer position at Signature Flooring?
Job Description
The Sr. Hospitality Custom Designer helps bring inspiration, brand stories, and creative briefs to life through distinctive flooring solutions for hospitality environments. This role partners closely with Sales, Project Management, Planning & Estimating, Technical, Manufacturing, and the broader Design team to create custom designs that are visually compelling, brand-right, and grounded in manufacturing reality.
Job Details
• Create custom hospitality flooring designs that translate inspiration, customer vision, and creative briefs through thoughtful, innovative, and production-ready solutions.
• Bring a strong design point of view to each project through pattern development, color direction, scale, and construction awareness while maintaining alignment with the intent of the brief.
• Partner across Sales, Project Management, Planning & Estimating, Technical, Manufacturing, and Design to move projects from concept through technical execution with creativity, accuracy, and responsiveness.
• Use artistic talent, design principles, and machine parameters to develop original artwork and custom concepts for a variety of machine types and product constructions.
• Create technically accurate and aesthetically compelling designs using industry-standard software and tools.
• Participate in design reviews, team collaboration, and creative dialogue to elevate concepts, strengthen execution, and support continuous growth within the studio.
• Stay current in hospitality, interior, fashion, and textile trends, bringing fresh inspiration and relevant ideas into the custom design process.
Candidate Requirements
• Four-year college degree in Textile/ Graphic Design or Fine Art and/or flooring design experience is preferred; relevant flooring or hospitality design experience strongly valued.
• Proven artistic ability and a strong design portfolio showcasing creative thinking, color, pattern, and technical understanding.
• Strong understanding of design and color principles, with the ability to create designs that are both visually inspiring and technically sound.
• Familiarity with Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) and industry design software (Photoshop, Illustrator, Texcelle, etc.)
Additional Skills
• Highly collaborative with the ability to build strong working relationships across design, operations, and customer-facing teams.
• Ability to work independently, set and manage priorities, and handle multiple tasks with concentration and accuracy to meet multiple deadlines and shifting priorities to meet company specifications and production schedules/requirements.
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills necessary to effectively interact with team members, management, and other internal and external customers and to build positive interpersonal relationships with various business partners in a cross–functional environment.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to concept development and support projects from idea through execution.
• Comfortable approaching new challenges with curiosity, imagination, and a solutions-oriented mindset.