Kathy Kuo Home is a luxury online home furnishings destination on a mission to help everyone #lovewhereyoulive. Kathy Kuo Home carries a highly curated collection of home furnishings while offering clients premium interior design services and easy-to-shop look books. Kathy Kuo Home believes that shopping for great design should be fun, easy, and inspiring, so it provides everything from design inspiration to flawless execution in one vertically integrated platform, allowing customers to create a space they will cherish for years to come.
Curated Collection and Ecommerce
Under the direction of celebrated designer Kathy Kuo, the company serves as the premier online boutique for luxury furniture, lighting, and home decor. The assortment is curated with a design-first approach that offers exclusive access to impeccably-crafted designer pieces from top manufacturers and artisans around the world.
Full Service Interior Design Studio
In addition to its aspirational collection, Kathy Kuo Home is also a full-service interior design studio with a robust menu of Design Services. Kathy Kuo Home’s roster of professional interior designers combine a high-touch, personalized approach with the latest in design technology to help customers with all of their design needs—from small updates and refreshes, to gut renovations and building entirely new homes.
Trade Business
Kathy Kuo Home is proud to offer a top-tier Trade business that provides the interior design and architecture communities with an inspiring selection of luxe homewares and furnishings at competitive trade prices. Additionally, Kathy Kuo Home provides its Trade customers with a dedicated concierge team to ensure a best-in-class customer service experience throughout the entire design process. Combining service, commerce, and technology, Kathy Kuo Home is the ultimate one-stop home and design destination.
Culture and Values
The Kathy Kuo Home team members are design-obsessed, entrepreneurial-minded and empathy-oriented individuals that seek to create more impact and beauty in the world of interiors. As one of the fastest growing online companies in the home and garden space, it is a fantastic time to join Kathy Kuo Home’s fast-paced, nimble, and creative team.
Core Values
We Employ Design Thinking #DesignWins | Design is how one approaches everything. Employing design thinking is employing first principles thinking. This applies not only to product or space design, but how we design our day, our work processes, and our organization
We are Limitless Learners | We are curious by nature and aim to be 1?tter every day by learning 1 new thing a day.
We Strive To Be Self-Aware | We are self-reflective and deeply curious about ourselves. We believe with a deep awareness of oneself, can one develop awareness for others.
We Play the Long Game | We have an infinite horizon for growth and lean into business decisions that have a long-lasting impact on brand growth
Core Principles
We have Deep Kindness and Respect for All | Our business model is supported by the relationships that we have with our customers, vendors, and shippers. We treat our team members, shippers, and vendors with the same spirit of kindness, willingness to collaborate, and respect for their needs.
We Lead with Empathy | When faced with hard choices, we lean into empathy and compassion first as our primary decision drivers. We proactively reach out to celebrate each other’s success and buoy those that need us.
We Require Feedback | Giving and receiving feedback promotes a culture of self-awareness, growth, and humility, the foundations of strong inter-department connection.
We are Humble and Hungry | We operate with a startup mentality, scrappy and intentional with how we use our human and financial resources no matter what scale of business we are in.
We Audit the Details – Design and Service | We deeply audit all details and have hyper-awareness of process, cause, and effect and how this relates to our design and service quality output.
We Keep Calm / Grace Under Fire | We solve problems by being self-aware, open-minded, and accepting of different ideas and opinions and strive to be calm, reflective, and not defensive.
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This individual will work closely with Kathy Kuo and the interior design team on all residential and hospitality projects ranging from local projects to those further out of state. The ideal candidate will have experience in high-end residential and commercial design.
Powered by the strength of the success of the retail brand, Kathy Kuo Home (), all projects are designed, detailed, and ultimately procured in-house providing an unparalleled service experience. Our strength in furniture, decor, construction and manufacturing coupled with solution-driven design create spaces that reflect the spirit and lifestyle of our clients in a timeless luxurious way.
Applicants should have excellent communication and organizational skills, in addition to sales experience and outstanding people skills. Your role is to combine creativity and technical knowledge with business skills and understanding to create functional and beautiful spaces for our clients – drawing from our exceptionally curated product line at Kathy Kuo Home.
Responsibilities :
•Serving as the main point of contact for all high-value clients and leading design projects from conception to completion. •This includes programming client needs, conceptual design, schematic design, design development, furnishing selection, and space planning.
•Strong ability to develop floor plans, presentation boards, and renderings.
•Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, as well as presentation skills.
•Strong ability to nurture a sales cycle through consistent and responsible client follow-up.
•Documenting FF&E and finishes for full-service design clients
•Working cross-functionally with the Project Management team to assist in purchasing furniture items based on client requests and coordinate send out of fabric and finish samples to clients as needed.
•Work with external consultants and manufacturers to gather product information as needed.
Requirements:
•Open to graduates of BS Interior Design (licensed and unlicensed)
•Previous design firm experience is a plus
•Required skills: AutoCAD, Sketchup & Adobe Photoshop. Knowledge in Adobe InDesign is a plus
•Must be passionate about Interior Design, furniture, decor & architecture
•Must be able to work New York hours.
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