Residential Designer, Laminate & Resilient Flooring

Position Overview

Job Title Designer, Residential Flooring Hard Surfaces

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. Headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, Shaw is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. with more than $5 billion in annual sales and approximately 18,000 associates worldwide. The Residential Designer for Laminate & Resilient Flooring (supporting our Product Portfolio & Market Strategy) identifies consumer needs, interprets market and design trends, and translates insights into commercially successful hard-surface flooring products and collections for Shaw Residential.

• Gather the voice of the customer through specialty retailer visits, market travel, Sales partnerships, and discussions about new launches, displays, portfolio gaps, and emerging needs.
• Translate customer feedback, consumer insights, competitive activity, and design trends into product recommendations, color palettes, collection strategies, product assortments, and design direction.
• Develop and deliver compelling design, trend, portfolio, and product presentations for customers, Sales teams, internal partners, and senior leaders.
• Partner with Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing, Sourcing, Category, and other brands to align product recommendations with customer needs, brand positioning, and business priorities.
• Evaluate portfolio performance, competitive activity, emerging trends, and gaps within existing product lines to identify current and future commercial opportunities.
• Lead and support portfolio reviews, line reviews, customer presentations, strategic planning sessions, and go-to-market discussions.
• Build trusted relationships with customers and internal partners, gather meaningful feedback, and create alignment around product direction and priorities.
• Develop a working knowledge of hard-surface flooring products, construction, manufacturing, and technical considerations to effectively support customers, Sales partners, and product development.

• Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design, Product Design, Textile Design, Industrial Design, Marketing, Consumer Insights, or a related field.
• Two to five years of professional experience in product design, interior design, trend research, portfolio strategy, merchandising, or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of color, design trends, consumer preferences, and brand positioning.
• Ability to translate research, customer feedback, market observations, and consumer insights into actionable design and product recommendations.
• Confidence presenting ideas and recommendations to customers, Sales teams, internal partners, senior leaders, and groups of varying sizes.
• Ability and willingness to travel frequently for customer meetings, market visits, product reviews, and industry events and work in the office 4 days per week.

• Professional experience in residential interior design or the design of laminate, resilient, wood, or other hard-surface flooring products.
• Experience in flooring, home furnishings, building products, interior products, or a related residential design industry.
• Experience presenting design concepts, trends, product strategies,…