Textile Management Associates

Job Description

Signature is looking to grow its existing studio design team with the addition of a Sr. Hospitality Custom Designer in their corporate office in Dalton, GA. The Sr. Hospitality Custom Designer will be a full-time, on-site role that helps bring inspiration, brand stories, and creative briefs to life through distinctive flooring solutions for hospitality environments. This role partners closely with Sales, Project Management, Planning & Estimating, Technical, Manufacturing, and the broader Design team to create custom designs that are visually compelling, brand-right, and grounded in manufacturing reality.

This opportunity is ideal for experienced hospitality, textile, flooring, carpet, interior, or product designers looking to grow their career in a collaborative manufacturing and design environment. Candidates with experience in hospitality interiors, custom flooring design, soft surface design, textile design, or commercial interiors are encouraged to apply.

Job Details

• Create custom hospitality flooring designs that translate inspiration, customer vision, and creative briefs through thoughtful, innovative, and production-ready solutions.
• Bring a strong design point of view to each project through pattern development, color direction, scale, and construction awareness while maintaining alignment with the intent of the brief.
• Partner across Sales, Project Management, Planning & Estimating, Technical, Manufacturing, and Design to move projects from concept through technical execution with creativity, accuracy, and responsiveness.
• Use artistic talent, design principles, and machine parameters to develop original artwork and custom concepts for a variety of machine types and product constructions.
• Create technically accurate and aesthetically compelling designs using industry-standard software and tools.
• Participate in design reviews, team collaboration, and creative dialogue to elevate concepts, strengthen execution, and support continuous growth within the studio.
• Stay current in hospitality, interior, fashion, and textile trends, bringing fresh inspiration and relevant ideas into the custom design process.
• Use artistic skills, design principles, and machine parameters to develop technically accurate artwork in response to design requests, specific instructions, or generic briefs while maintaining acceptable lead times.
• Work within & maintain Signature’s Copyright policies.
• Use Industry standard software to create technically accurate and aesthetically innovative designs for specific machine types
• Engage in artwork reviews, mentoring sessions, and team discussions for continuous development and increased knowledge of practical design skills, company and industry standards, and internal/external design expectations.

Candidate Requirements

• Four-year college degree in a related field, Textile/ Graphic Design or Fine Art and/or flooring design experience is preferred. An understanding of design / color principles and concepts is required. 
• Proven artistic achievement & a broad-based design portfolio is a requirement.
• Experience with NedGraphics/Texcel is required.
• Familiarity with Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) is desired (Photoshop, Illustrator, Texcelle, etc.)
• Must show an understanding of fashion, interior and textile trends.

Additional Skills

• Collaborate effectively with a team.
• Ability to work independently, set priorities, and handle multiple tasks with concentration and accuracy to meet multiple deadlines and shifting priorities to meet company specifications and production schedules/requirements.
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills necessary to effectively interact with team members, management, and other internal and external customers and to build positive interpersonal relationships with various business partners in a cross–functional environment.
• Consistent, proven ability to manage and implement projects and contribute to concept development.
• Ability to approach unfamiliar situations and conceptualize a range of creative and imaginative solutions with ease, using creativity skills to develop accurate design results.