Interior Designer/ Head of Product

About SQ1 Living

SQ1 Living is the furniture and interiors arm of the Square One Group. We sell turnkey, whole-apartment furniture bundles — designed, delivered, assembled and staged in seven days — to buyers (increasingly overseas investors) who would otherwise spend three to six months sourcing furniture from a dozen separate suppliers across Cyprus.

One package, one price, one week, with a single warranty and a single point of contact.

The Role

This is the founding design hire and the first of two people who start the business. It is best understood as an FF&E Design Manager with a commercial side, rather than a pure interior designer: you specify and curate what SQ1 Living sells, but you also own its cost, margin and roadmap as a product. You define what the company actually sells — a small number of curated, fully-specified apartment packages rather than an open catalogue — and you own that product end-to-end, from supplier selection through to the visual assets customers buy from, through to the eventual transition to our own manufactured designs.

What You'll Do

•Design and specify six to eight curated FF&E packages covering every room, across multiple unit sizes — furniture, lighting, rugs, textiles, art, styling and kitchenware.

•Source, shortlist and negotiate directly with suppliers and factories; agree trade terms and order and approve samples.

•Own each package as a product: cost it, price it, and manage the margin and trade-offs between design intent and commercial viability.

•Produce or direct the visual assets (renders, styling, photography direction) that let a remote buyer purchase an apartment's worth of furniture having only seen it visualised online.

•Set and hold the quality bar: sample approval and field testing in live rental units before any item enters a package.

•Own the long-term roadmap from imported packages to SQ1's own manufactured product line, including early input on sourcing and tooling as the company moves toward direct production in Asia.

•Partner closely with the Business Development Manager to keep packages priced, buildable and sellable.

Requirements

•5+ years' experience in FF&E design — specifying, sourcing and negotiating with furniture suppliers or manufacturers at a professional level.

•Experience as a Product Manager, or in a product-ownership capacity, is an advantage but not required — what matters is the ability to think about a design range as a costed, margin-aware product line, not just a creative brief.

•A strong point of view on design and curation — comfortable making the decisions a buyer doesn't want to make, rather than offering unlimited choice.

•Ability to produce or direct high-quality visual output (renders, styling, photography) that sells product sight-unseen.

•Comfort operating as a founding hire in a small team, with direct ownership of supplier relationships, product decisions and commercial outcomes. …

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