Freelance Surface Pattern Designer Jobs in Georgia

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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.

TheResidential Hard Surfaces Product Designercreates 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.

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

• Present product concepts, trend insights, and design recommendations to cross-functional stakeholders and incorporate feedback into future design directions.

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

Required Qualifications:

• 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.

Highly Preferred Qualifications:

• 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, vendors, global suppliers, or cross-functional product-development teams.

• Experience in product, industrial, graphic, packaging, surface, or retail-environment design with a portfolio demonstrating strong Photoshop, color, pattern, and layout capabilities.

Competencies:

• Plan & Organize

• Deliver Compelling communication

• Innovation

• Build trusting relationships

• Adapt and Change

Shaw benefits include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Life insurance and disability coverage

• Tuition reimbursement

• Employee assistance program

• Health savings account

• Paid Time Off

• Parental Leave

• 401K and Retirement Plans

• Product discounts for employees

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