Floral Designer / Retail Florist
Prado Flowers — San Francisco, CA
Prado Flowers is seeking a creative, experienced, and customer-focused Floral Designer to join our retail team. This role combines floral design, luxury customer service, and day-to-day shop operations. The ideal candidate has a strong eye for color and composition, enjoys working directly with customers, and can perform calmly and efficiently in a fast-paced floral environment.
Responsibilities
- Create fresh floral arrangements, bouquets, and custom designs that reflect Prado Flowers’ signature style and quality standards.
- Assist customers in selecting flowers for gifts, homes, celebrations, events, and other special occasions.
- Manage in-store, telephone, and online orders accurately and professionally.
- Prepare, condition, organize, and care for flowers to maintain freshness and minimize waste.
- Monitor floral and shop inventory and communicate supply needs.
- Package arrangements carefully for customer pickup and delivery.
- Process payments and support daily retail operations.
- Maintain an organized, welcoming, and visually appealing shop environment.
- Help create seasonal displays and merchandising.
- Support holiday production, workshops, events, and other special projects.
- Provide warm, attentive, and personalized service to every customer.
Qualifications
- Three to Five years of Floral Design experience.
- Retail experience preferred.
- Experience in luxury retail, boutique hospitality, or another design-focused environment is highly valued.
- Strong customer service, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent attention to detail, organization, and time management.
- Dependable, punctual, professional, and comfortable working as part of a team.
- Able to manage multiple orders and priorities during busy periods.
- Comfortable standing for extended periods and lifting floral supplies, buckets, and arrangements.
- Available to work weekends, holidays, and peak floral periods as needed.