Interior Designer

About the role

Design Beautiful Spaces. Live Modern. Earn Without Limits.

Now Hiring: Interior Designer – La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries
Location: Appleton, WI
Compensation: Base + Unlimited Commission + Monthly Bonus Opportunity

What You’ll Be Doing

• Partnering with our Sales Associates and clients to understand their style, lifestyle, and vision for their home.
• Designing inspiring spaces using premium furniture, fabrics, and décor.
• Providing professional design consultations, including layout planning and product recommendations.
• Creating cohesive looks that bring comfort, style, and functionality together.

Who You Are

• Passionate about home furnishings, design trends, and creating beautiful spaces.
• Detail-oriented with a strong eye for color, texture, and layout.
• Confident working directly with clients to bring their design vision to life.
• Experience in design, home furnishings, or client-focused retail is a plus.

Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (other duties as assigned):
Process Promote the La-Z-Boy In-Home Design program to draft potential design solutions, present customized portfolio presentations tailored to the client’s requirements and preferences to achieve or surpass store and individual design sales goals.
Achieve annual operating benchmarks, and personal objectives.
Schedule and conduct in-home consultations to understand client's unique needs, preferences, and vision for their space.
People Partner with Store and Sales Managers to provide coaching, training, and support to sales teams to improve design culture, product knowledge, sales techniques, strategies, and overall in-home design performance.
Collaborate with the team to ensure execution of operational excellence.
Brand Advocacy Create design concepts and digital presentation with finish selections, furnishings, and decor.
Translate the client’s lifestyle, taste, and budget into actionable design recommendations.
Operations Ensure proper execution of all existing and new systems and administrative procedures.
Support store management with weekly, monthly and quarterly meetings.
Support store management with the execution of special projects and promotions.
Adhere to legal and efficient accounting practices.
Uphold brand visual standards in the store by ensuring cleanliness in employee and customer areas.

Scope & Impact

This position holds significant influence over the store's financial health, team morale and development, operational efficiency, and the overall customer experience and reputation in the community. This position reports to the Store Manager of the assigned location with indirect influence of sales team.

Minimum Requirements

• Education: bachelor’s degree; or equivalent experience.
• Experience: 2-3 years in sales or interior design, with a residential emphasis.

Preferred Requirements

• Design Certification
• Advanced interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills, business acumen, entrepreneurial spirit & experience in building effective relationships.

Physical Demands/Work Environment

• Ability to lift and/or carry up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to operate motor vehicle.
• Ability to stand for long periods of time.
• Nearly continuous use of repetitive hand motions, hearing and listening.
• Often required to sit, walk, bend and stoop.
• Subject to inside environmental conditions.
• Ability to pass background and drug screen.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the incumbent for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Pay

Training Pay: $20 per hour for 2-6 weeks (no commission)
Average Earning Potential After Training: $70,000 - $100,000+ (inclusive of base, commission and bonus)

The company will not pay less than state/local minimum wage requirements post-training. Base Pay: $26,000 per year
Commission & Bonus: Earn more with UNCAPPED commission on written sales – 3.5% on La-Z-Boy Design Sales and 2% on other sales, other than La-Z-Boy Design Sales. Monthly bonus opportunity of up to $2,000 based on your ability to meet specific individual sales goals

Individual pay is based on various factors, including geographic location, personal performance and relevant qualifications, experience, and skills.

By providing our salary ranges and compensation range details, we aim to foster understanding and confidence in our pay practices.

If this role requires travel / driving in order to perform the key responsibilities outlined above, candidates must be able to meet the qualifications noted in the company’s Driver Management Program to be considered for the role.

Benefits

For Employees In The US
Benefit offerings to employees and their families include:
Medical, Vision, Dental and Basic Life Insurance, available 401k retirement plan with company match of up to 6%.

Paid time off includes:
9-11 paid holidays each year,
two weeks’ prorated vacation as a new hire and either personal time (non-exempt only) or state mandated sick time.

More information can be found via: https://learn.bswift.com/la-z-boy