Product Designer - Hard Surfaces, Residential
Creates visual designs for residential hard-surface flooring (laminate, hardwood, resilient) by translating trends and consumer insights into commercial-ready concepts, collaborating with product/manufacturing teams to refine designs for materials and technical feasibility.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Shaw Plant 19, 1010 VD Parrot Parkway, Dalton, GA 30720 USA
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Design
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 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 Adobe Photoshop (photo editing, image manipulation, pattern/layout development, color adjustment)
- Strong understanding of color, pattern, scale, design principles, trend forecasting, and product development
- Ability to translate creative concepts into clear visual assets for product-development/manufacturing partners
- Ability to work in-office at least four days per week
- Ability to travel ~20% for trade shows, customer visits, and market research
- Ability to collaborate across global time zones (including occasional evening calls with Asia-Pacific partners)
Nice to have
- Experience designing hard-surface flooring, ceramic tile, wallcovering, or similar manufactured products
- Experience with resilient flooring, laminate, hardwood, tile, wood/stone visuals, or repeat patterns
- Experience translating consumer insights/trends into manufactured product solutions
- Understanding of manufacturing processes, materials, product construction, sampling, and sourcing
- Experience partnering with technical teams, manufacturers, vendors, or global suppliers
Full description
Job Title
Product Designer - Hard Surfaces, Residential
Position Overview
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 Hard Surfaces Product Designer creates original product visuals, colorways, patterns, surface designs, and design assets supporting Shaw Residential’s resilient, laminate, hardwood, and future hard-surface categories. Working across multiple residential brands, this role translates consumer insights, trend research, and market opportunities into commercially relevant product concepts. The designer will partner closely with product development, manufacturing, sourcing, and global supplier teams to develop designs that reflect emerging trends while accounting for materials, product construction, manufacturing capabilities, and technical requirements. This role will work in a hybrid way approximately four days a week in the office from our Dalton, Georgia corporate campus.
Responsibilities:
- 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.