Sr. Hospitality Designer

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.