Designer, Google Service
About The Position
The Designer is responsible for designing, planning, and implementing furniture layouts and configurations that support organizational needs during client transition periods. The role ensures workspaces are functional, aesthetically pleasing, and efficient while meeting evolving business requirements. The Designer works with clients, project managers, installation teams, vendors, and facilities teams to execute furniture-related changes in offices and other environments. The Designer manages client relationships and project follow-up, develops and adapts furniture layouts for moves, adds, and changes (MAC), and ensures designs address ergonomic standards, workflow efficiency, client requirements, space constraints, and applicable codes. The role also includes field measurements, inventory and programming activities, product and specification research, live digital design, project documentation, and maintaining knowledge of industry products and design concepts. The position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university, architectural or interior design school; three to five years of related experience and/or training may substitute for some experience or formal education requirements.
- Working knowledge of furniture systems and electrical and cabling issues.
- General understanding of building systems and building codes.
- Demonstrated ability to use AutoCAD, CAP, rendering software, and Microsoft Office Suite to plan all phases of the project cycle.
- Ability to perform live digital design with customers as needed for project development.
- Customer-focused approach and ability to adjust strategy to meet customer expectations.
- Ability to manage multiple and competing projects successfully.
- Relevant product knowledge, attention to detail, organization skills, proficient verbal and written communication, and technology proficiency.
- Ability to respond to complex customer or business-community inquiries or complaints and present information effectively to client-organization top management, public groups, and other outside entities.
- Ability to calculate discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, interpret technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form, and work with abstract and concrete variables.
- Ability to sit, concentrate, talk, hear, stand, walk, use hands to handle items and operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and telephone keypad; occasionally reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Ability to regularly lift or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds with assistance and/or equipment.
- Required vision abilities include close, distance, color, peripheral, and depth vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
Nice To Haves
- Ability to apply algebraic and geometric concepts involved in project design is desirable.
Responsibilities
- Create and manage strong relationships with clients on assigned accounts and provide prompt, effective project follow-up.
- Develop creative and functional furniture layouts for moves, adds, and changes (MAC) projects.
- Ensure furniture designs meet ergonomic standards, workflow efficiency, and client-specific requirements.
- Adapt existing furniture designs to new spaces and reconfigure layouts based on organizational needs, space constraints, and employee preferences.
- Collaborate with project managers to plan and execute furniture moves, adds, and changes in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Assess current furniture setups and recommend necessary modifications or improvements.
- Coordinate with vendors, installers, and facilities teams to manage furniture move and installation logistics.
- Track and document changes to maintain accurate records of furniture layouts, inventories, and configurations.
- Assume responsibility for completing design and design-related tasks for assigned projects.
- Generate accurate project scopes based on customer expectations and requirements.
- Develop furniture block plans, space plans, fabric and finish palettes, final furniture specifications, and installation drawings; ensure plans comply with codes.
- Provide customer-facing live design as needed to visualize solutions using design software, and obtain client sign-off on final plans, 3D renderings, finishes, and specifications.
- Perform field measurements, product inventory, programming, specification verification, and ancillary product research; participate in project meetings with sales staff and/or clients.
- Enter project design time into the internal database daily.
- As needed, conduct post-occupancy evaluations or punch-list walkthroughs with the project manager to support timely resolution of identified issues.
- Maintain current knowledge of industry developments, related products, applications, and design concepts; inform assigned clients about new products and trends.
- Devote time to personal and professional development.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
