Actalent - Senior Designer (Commercial Furniture Interiors)

Interior Designer is needed in New York, United States.

Client: Actalent

Location: New York, NY

Contract: Temporary, Temp-to-hire

Job Description

The High Level Designer plays a key role on a collaborative, design-led sales team supporting workplace, education, healthcare, and corporate clients throughout the New York metropolitan area. In this role, you partner closely with sales professionals, account managers, and clients to develop innovative, customized furniture solutions. You participate in client meetings, conduct real-time design sessions using CET Canvas, create furniture layouts and specifications, develop project budgets, and oversee quality control activities to ensure accurate, high-performing design outcomes.

Requirements

Essential Skills

• 5+ years of experience preferred, with consideration for candidates with approximately 3+ years of relevant commercial furniture or workplace interiors experience.
• Hands-on experience using CET Canvas in a commercial furniture dealership or contract furniture environment.
• Proven ability to independently produce drawings, layouts, specifications, and budgets for commercial furniture projects.
• Commercial furniture or contract furniture experience, ideally within a furniture dealer, workplace interiors organization, education, healthcare, or commercial furniture-focused design practice.
• Strong client-facing design skills, including conducting design meetings and participating in real-time design sessions while reviewing floor plans and layouts.
• Demonstrated capability in furniture specification and budgeting, including creating specifications and corresponding budgets and aligning pricing with design drawings.
• Space planning and design development experience for workplace, education, and healthcare environments.
• Quality control experience, including performing peer reviews and verifying accuracy of specifications and drawings prior to order submission.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills for effective collaboration with clients and internal teams.
• High level of detail orientation with excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining quality and deadlines.
• Comfort interacting directly with clients in a consultative, professional manner.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience working for a commercial furniture dealer is strongly preferred.
• Experience within workplace, education, or healthcare interiors is preferred.
• Haworth furniture dealership experience is highly desirable.
• Contract furniture, workplace design, educational interiors, or healthcare interiors is beneficial.
• Proficiency with CET Canvas and familiarity with tools such as AutoCAD support success in this role.
• Understanding of furniture installation processes and coordination is advantageous.
• Portfolio of completed commercial interior projects is preferred and helps demonstrate design capabilities.
• Ability to deliver customized solutions utilizing products from multiple furniture manufacturers.
• Professional demeanor that supports a high-touch, consultative client experience.
• Interest in working within a family-owned, design-led organization where designers are viewed as strategic partners.

Work Environment

This role is based within a professional, hybrid work environment serving clients in the New York metropolitan area. The typical schedule includes in-office work on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, with remote work on Wednesday and Friday, with flexibility based on experience level and individual circumstances. Office locations are in New York City and Mountainside, NJ, and the position includes client visits, showroom tours, and occasional job site visits to support design presentations and installations.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of New York, NY.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $43.00 - $60.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: medical, dental & vision; critical illness, accident, and hospital; 401(k) retirement plan – pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available; life insurance (voluntary life & AD&D for the employee and dependents); short and long-term disability; health spending account (HSA); transportation benefits; employee assistance program; time off/leave (PTO, vacation or sick leave).

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in New York, NY.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Aug 31, 2026.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.