Visual Designer

American Furniture Warehouse•Conroe, TX

2d•$18 - $33•Onsite

About The Position

The Show Floor Visual Designer creates imaginative, eye-catching merchandise displays designed to attract customers and drive sales using design concepts, color schemes, lighting, and display props. The role works with AFW management and the Staging team to create an inviting customer show floor and collaborates with store management, buying teams, staging, and warehouse teams on visual merchandising decisions and execution. The designer researches display needs and develops design ideas, prepares and processes merchandise for display, and styles new products in compelling, shoppable presentations aligned with seasonal themes and store standards. The role maintains clean, complete, customer-ready vignettes, carries out floor moves and product refreshes, interprets AFW visual merchandising tools and direction, and helps address store-specific visual merchandising challenges. AFW provides training.

Requirements

Interior design degree or education in a related field, or visual merchandising or similar experience.
Coordinate and work effectively with multiple departments to improve processes, maximize efficiency, and exceed customer service expectations.
Work independently under direct supervision.
Communicate and interact cooperatively and constructively with fellow associates as a team member.
Learn, understand, and apply new technologies, including Storis, iPads, Excel, and Word.
Work a flexible schedule that meets business needs, including evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Nice To Haves

Interior design degree or related education, or at least 2 years of visual merchandising or similar experience.

Responsibilities

Follow AFW safety policies and procedures and promote safety awareness.
Partner with the Staging Manager to prepare for and implement seasonal merchandising presentations and new visual merchandising initiatives.
Process warehouse product to prepare it for merchandising.
Partner with store management on visual merchandising decisions that affect workload and sales.
Research display needs and develop design ideas.
Perform visual design and staging, partnering with buying teams to develop effective display themes and color schemes.
Pull, unpack, and style new products to create compelling, shoppable displays aligned with seasonal themes and store standards.
Maintain brand presentation standards by updating vignettes and ensuring displays are clean, complete, and customer ready.
Collaborate with staging, warehouse, and buying teams to plan and execute floor moves, product refreshes, and featured displays.
Use basic design concepts to enhance showroom presentation and interpret AFW visual merchandising tools and direction.
Offer solutions to store-specific visual and merchandising challenges using brand standards.
Participate in annual show floor inventory scans.
Display new merchandise as soon as it is received.
Identify and read reports, tickets, and UPC labels.
Work independently under direct supervision and maintain a clean and safe work environment.
Perform other duties as assigned by management.