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Position: PART TIME - Home Staging/Design Assistant - MUST BE HUDSON VALLEY BASED (Ulster or Dutchess County) 

HUDSON VALLEY HEADQUARTERED (HIGHLAND, NY) - Award winning NYC-based interior design firm owned by Celebrity Interior Designer Cathy Hobbs, an Emmy Award Winning Television Host and Finalist on Season 6 of HGTV Design Star, is looking for the ideal talent to join our team for our opening for a PART-TIME Home Staging/Design Assistant for our brand new state-of-the-art Home Staging and Design Center.

To provide further clarity, we are an interior design firm, exclusively specializing in real estate staging and styling in addition to short term rental and vacation home design. We do not do traditional interior design at all. As such the best fit for our team are people who understand and appreciate visual merchandising as we exclusively stage and style vacant luxury real estate in Manhattan and immediate surrounding areas and from our Hudson Valley showroom/design center later this Fall, the curation and design of short term rentals and vacation homes.

The IDEAL CANDIDATE MUST be able to hit the ground running, assisting with the research, set up and implementation of our new showroom which will be a HOME STAGING + DESIGN CENTER - the first, in The Hudson Valley. As such visual merchandising, design skills with the ability to create mood boards, and proficiency in platforms such as CANVA is a must. We also especially value those with strong social media skills. SOME SATURDAY WORK WILL BE REQUIRED. 

Who We Are:

Cathy Hobbs Design Recipes is an interior design/home staging firm specializing in a unique hybrid model that blends luxury real estate staging and styling plus extensive video production. With its own in-house production company, CHDR offers brokers (included in its staging packages) the option of hosted property tours, broadcast quality virtual property tours in addition to interactive virtual 360 tours, all professionally shot and edited and provided to brokers for their own self-promotion and usage.

 

Founded in 2004 by Emmy Award Winning Television Host and Finalist on Season 6 of HGTV Design Star, Cathy Hobbs Design Recipes is one of the premiere staging companies serving the Tri-State Area. CHDR maintains an expansive warehouse, which includes a curated collection of furniture, artwork, chandeliers, accessories, and drapery. To meet the needs of its expanding business, the company's new, expansive 12,500 square foot state-of-the art building/warehouse (to be completed in Fall 2024), will serve as the first Passive House Certified Warehouse in North America.

 

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THE POSITION:

A Hudson Valley based member of our design team who will organize, maintain all aspects of our Hudson Valley based warehouse in addition to assisting/spearheading the establishment and growth of a short-term rental/vacation home division in The Hudson Valley. You will ensure the maintenance and organization of our warehouse and accessories, working with our Head of Logistics, Design Team and CEO. In addition, you will be responsible of maintaining adequate inventory levels, suggesting of inventory and shopping for inventory as needed at local stores. In addition you’ll travel to Hudson Valley real estate offices and networking meetings/events to promote our staging services. Additionally, you will be the primary Home Staging Stylist for Hudson Valley executing staging jobs and short term rental installations with our in-house logistics team. 

Warehouse Duties:

• Solely responsible for maintaining the warehouse organization of accessories, bedding, and artwork including repainting and repairs.
• Putting away accessories that return from staging jobs in a prompt manner.
• Kitting (placing accessories in groupings in bins) and bagging of accessories and bedding.
• Printing of artwork and basic framing.
• Shopping as needed for accessories and home decor items at local stores.
• Washing, folding, steaming, and ironing of linens.
• Assisting Manhattan design teams with accessories as needed.
• Overall impeccable organization and tidiness of our new state-of-the-art warehouse/showroom.

Design Duties:

• Working with our Hudson Valley clients relating to short-term rental and vacation home design needs.
• Creation of Mood Boards and Procurement packages under direction of Senior Design Team and CEO.
• Maintain client relationships with Hudson Valley Clients.
• Stage Hudson Valley projects. 

Outreach/Marketing Duties:

• On-going creation of marketing materials to help promote the Design Center -- using basic programs such as CANVA.
• Travel to Hudson Valley real estate offices and networking meetings/events to promote the Design Center and our staging services. 

WHO YOU ARE:

You are a smart, energetic, self-starter with excellent communication skills and an established professional and personal connection to the Hudson Valley. A Hudson Valley real estate network is helpful but not required. You are a natural networker, outgoing and personable, and love talking with people and helping them to reach their goals. You have a strong interest in real estate and interior design and savvy both with social media but also computer skills. You keep up on the latest trends in the world of interior design and home staging. You are not shy when it comes to physical work, as home staging is very physical and requires long hours. 

Job Details:

• This (PART-TIME) position blends the worlds of professional organizing, home staging, and interior design. 
• This is a PART TIME POSITION 2-3 DAYS PER WEEK. Work location will be our brand new HUDSON VALLEY HEADQUARTERS/WAREHOUSE/DESIGN CENTER located on 4 acres surrounded by orchards in bucolic New Paltz.

Ideal candidates:

• Visual merchandising experience specifically in the home decor (NOT FASHION) field is a PLUS (but not required).
• Impeccable organization skills.
• Interest in home staging and interior design (a PLUS but not required).
• Basic ability to assemble furniture.
• Basic visual merchandising, styling, and or prop styling skills.

MUST BE HUDSON VALLEY BASED (Ulster or Dutchess County) or live within 15-45 minutes of HIGHLAND, NEW YORK.

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About Cathy Hobbs Design Recipes:

Cathy Hobbs Design Recipes (CHDR), is an interior design/home staging firm specializing in a unique hybrid model that blends luxury real estate staging and styling plus extensive video production. With its own in-house production company, CHDR offers brokers (included in its staging packages) the option of hosted property tours, broadcast quality virtual property tours in addition to interactive virtual 360 tours, all professionally shot and edited and provided to brokers for their own self-promotion and usage. Founded in 2004 by New York City based news anchor/reporter turned interior designer Cathy Hobbs, CHDR is one of the premiere staging companies serving the Tri-State Area. CHDR maintains an expansive warehouse, which includes a curated collection of furniture, artwork, chandeliers, accessories and drapery. In order to meet the needs of its expanding business, the company's proposed, new, expansive 12,000 square foot state-of-the art building/warehouse, will serve as the first Passive House Certified Warehouse in North America.

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Temporary work, Local area, Immediate start, Remote job, Work from home, Saturday, 2 days per week, 3 days per week,

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