Store Visual Merchandising & Design Associate (Home Furnishings)

Overview

Are you a strategic visual merchandiser with a passion for home furnishings and an eye for aesthetic detail? Do you work best in a vibrant environment where visual creativity meets customer interaction?

 

Join our Austin retail team as a Store Visual Merchandising & Design Associate, a highly influential role for an experienced visual professional with strong leadership, project management capabilities, and proven business acumen. This position plays a critical role in setting the visual standard, operational rhythm, and performance expectations for the showroom and team.

 

We are seeking a confident, strategic, and hands‑on leader who brings a strong visual point of view and understands how design drives business results. You will serve as a role model for execution, ownership, and consistency—directly shaping the customer experience while influencing team performance, showroom standards, and sales outcomes. In this role, you will balance creative leadership with operational accountability. You will own the showroom’s visual experience end‑to‑end, from planning through execution, while ensuring inventory processes are accurate, efficient, and aligned with broader business priorities. You will lead all aspects of visual merchandising, including floor planning, resets, assortment introductions, and presentation standards, managing projects from concept to completion with a clear focus on timelines, resources, and results.

 

Working closely with the Store Leader, you will align visual strategy with sales trends, customer behavior, and business goals. You’ll model best practices daily, maintain a consistently high standard across the showroom, and recognize how strong inventory management and operational excellence support both the customer experience and sales performance. You will also educate, coach, and inspire Design Associates on showroom presentation, product storytelling, and brand standards, leading through influence and example.

 

This hybrid role requires balancing visual responsibilities and engaging customers on the showroom floor using a consultative, solution-oriented approach throughout the week. You’ll partner with customers to create functional, inspiring spaces, applying your design expertise and product knowledge to meet their needs. Through these interactions, you will reinforce visual stories, support a collaborative, non‑commissioned selling environment, and ensure alignment between design vision, execution, and the overall customer experience.

 

Showroom location: 3200 Palm Way, Suite 170, Austin, TX 78758

 

Store hours:

Monday - Friday: 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Saturday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Sunday: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

 

Schedule:

Tuesday & Thursday: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

Wednesday & Friday: 10:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Saturday: 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. 

 

Hours may shift throughout the year, so flexibility with your schedule is necessary. To allow you to easily balance your other life priorities, we build out schedules for an entire month and release them a few weeks prior to the start of each month. 

 

What you bring to be successful as a Store Visual Merchandising & Design Associate: 

• A customer‑first, consultative mindset, with the ability to understand individual needs while maintaining professionalism and confidence on the sales floor.
• A collaborative approach to selling in a non‑commissioned environment, focused on delivering the right solution through the creative design process.
• Strong business acumen, with natural curiosity to understand sales trends, customer behavior, and operational needs—and apply that insight to drive results through visual and inventory decisions.
• Proven ability to lead by example, setting the pace for showroom standards, execution, and accountability as a key holder and visual role model.
• Confidence developing and executing initiatives independently while partnering effectively with the Store Leader and broader team.
• Clear, thoughtful communication skills that enable you to listen actively, share visual and operational insights, and influence others.
• Exceptional attention to detail, organization, and follow‑through, with comfort managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
• A passion for educating and inspiring colleagues on showroom presentation, product storytelling, and inventory flow, fostering design confidence and excitement.
• An understanding of how showroom execution, visual merchandising, and operational discipline directly impact sales performance and brand perception.

 

Additional position requirements and qualifications as a Store Visual Merchandising & Design