Visual Designer

American Furniture Warehouse•Conroe, TX

About The Position

The Show Floor Visual Designer creates imaginative, eye-catching merchandise displays intended to attract customers and drive sales. The role uses design concepts, color schemes, lighting, and display props to create an inviting showroom in collaboration with AFW management and the Staging team. The designer prepares and implements seasonal presentations and visual merchandising initiatives, processes incoming products for display, and partners with store management and buying teams on merchandising decisions, display themes, and workload. The role regularly styles new products, refreshes and maintains vignettes to brand standards, and coordinates floor moves and featured displays with staging, warehouse, and buying teams. Training is provided by AFW. The position requires work in a warehouse and showroom environment with concrete flooring, fluorescent lighting, exterior noise, and temperature fluctuations. The schedule must be flexible to meet business needs, including evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Requirements

Interior design degree or education in a related field, or visual merchandising or similar experience.
Ability to coordinate and work effectively with multiple departments to improve processes, maximize efficiency, and exceed customer service expectations.
Ability to work independently under direct supervision.
Ability to communicate and interact cooperatively and constructively with fellow associates.
Ability to learn, understand, and use technologies including Storis, iPads, Excel, and Word.
Ability to work a flexible schedule, including evenings, weekends, and holidays.
Ability to maneuver in confined and congested areas.
Ability to stand, walk, stoop, and bend for eight hours daily; constant use of arms, hands, fingers, eyes, legs, and back; and ability to lift, lower, push, and pull merchandise and display props weighing up to 50 pounds.
Ability to lift, bend, kneel, stoop, and move display props and accessories.
Successful completion of a pre-employment drug screen, background check, and fit-for-duty exam upon job offer.

Nice To Haves

At least two years of visual merchandising or similar experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Follow AFW safety policies and procedures and promote safety awareness.
Partner with the Staging Manager to prepare and implement seasonal merchandising presentations and new visual merchandising initiatives.
Process products in the warehouse to prepare them for merchandising.
Partner with store management on visual merchandising decisions that affect workload and sales.
Research merchandising needs and develop design ideas.
Create visual designs and staging, partnering with buying teams on display themes and color schemes.
Pull, unpack, and style new products to create shoppable displays aligned with seasonal themes and store standards.
Maintain brand presentation standards by updating vignettes and keeping displays clean, complete, and customer ready.
Collaborate with staging, warehouse, and buying teams to plan and execute floor moves, product refreshes, and featured displays.
Apply basic design concepts to enhance showroom presentation.
Interpret and apply 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 efficiently independently under direct supervision and as a cooperative team member.
Maintain a clean and safe work environment.
Perform other duties as assigned by management.