Product Designer - Hard Surface Flooring

Shaw Plant 19, 1010 VD Parrot Parkway, Dalton, GA 30720 USA

Full time

R-156068

Product Designer - Hard Surface Flooring

Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is a leader in flooring and other surface solutions designed for residential housing, commercial spaces and outdoor environments. Leveraging strengths in design, innovation and operational excellence, the company takes a people-centered, customer-focused, and growth-minded approach to meet diverse market needs. It creates differentiated customer experiences through its expansive portfolio of brands:
Anderson Tuftex, COREtec, Shaw Floors, Patcraft, Philadelphia Commercial, Shaw Contract, Shaw Sports Turf, Shawgrass, Southwest Greens, Watershed Geo and more.

• Create original product visuals, colorways, patterns, surface designs, layouts, and concept collections for residential hard-surface flooring.

• Use Adobe Photoshop to edit product imagery, develop repeatable layouts, scale patterns, and create design assets that support product development.

• Translate consumer insights, trend research, competitive intelligence, and market opportunities into commercially relevant design solutions.

• Partner with Product Development, Manufacturing, Sourcing, and global supplier teams to refine concepts based on materials, product construction, manufacturing capabilities, and technical requirements.

• Develop coordinated design stories, palettes, and visual platforms that support differentiation across multiple residential brands, product categories, and retail channels.

• Generate a high volume of design concepts supporting active product-development priorities and future opportunity exploration.

• Explore emerging trends, materials, technologies, manufacturing capabilities, and consumer preferences to identify future product opportunities and market whitespace.

• Create, organize, and document physical and digital product, material, and design libraries to support accessibility, collaboration, and long-term value.

• Collaborate across regions and time zones, including with Asia-Pacific sourcing and manufacturing partners, to support product design and development activities.

• Bachelor’s degree in Product Design, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Textile Design, Surface Design, or a related field.

• Two to five years of professional design experience.

• Advanced proficiency in Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite especially Adobe Photoshop, including photo editing, image manipulation, pattern or layout development, and color adjustment.

• Strong understanding of color, pattern, scale, design principles, trend forecasting, and product development.

• Ability to translate creative concepts into clear visual assets that can be used by product-development and manufacturing partners.

• Ability to work in the office at least four days per week.

• Ability to travel approximately 20% for trade shows, customer and partner visits, market research, and other business needs.

• Ability to collaborate across global time zones, including occasional evening calls with Asia-Pacific partners.

• Experience designing hard-surface flooring, ceramic tile, wallcovering, decorative surfaces, packaging, retail displays, or other manufactured products involving pattern, layers, materials, or construction.
• Experience with resilient flooring, laminate, hardwood, tile, wood visuals, stone visuals, repeat patterns, or surface design.
• Experience translating consumer insights, design trends, and market research into manufactured product solutions.
• Understanding of manufacturing processes, materials, product construction, sampling, sourcing, and commercialization.
• Experience partnering with technical teams, manufacturers,…