Rug Sales Specialist

Overview

Our family atelier is eager to welcome new members of our sales team at the most exciting time in our company’s history. As one of our teammates, you will have access to the most prominent designers, architects, and luxury home specialists seeking high-end rugs for their projects. Our showroom is expansive, and our team is made of smart, capable professionals with a great energy—eager to teach you our craft hands-on.

Rug Sales Specialist

Company:
Rug & Kilim

Duration:
Full-time

Date Posted: 12/08/25

Category:
Sales & Marketing

Location:

Long Island City

Salary: 50-100k

Our family atelier is eager to welcome new members of our sales team at the most exciting time in our company’s history. As one of our teammates, you will have access to the most prominent designers, architects, and luxury home specialists seeking high-end rugs for their projects. Our showroom is expansive, and our team is made of smart, capable professionals with a great energy—eager to teach you our craft hands-on.

Candidates with strong trade relationships are exciting, as are those with a passion for home furnishings, design, and the high-end market.

• Becoming familiar with our new and existing collections and samples, along with an awareness of major high-end brands in the art, design, fashion and furniture industry
• Managing accounts personally and servicing them professionally
• Bringing in new accounts through any traditional and creative new methods
• Present on social media and passionate to explore its potential as a networking resource and educational tool
• Excited to be hands on in our creative den, while constantly encouraging its energy and offering ideas to keep an organized, engaging look and feel to our home
• Working with other sales specialists, and our Phenom, on collaborative projects
• Maintain regular contact with designers to keep them updated of new additions to the collections for potential projects
• Expand connections with design professionals and network at design events/exhibitions to nurture strong relationships

• 3-5 years of sales experience in our field or a relevant discipline(s)
• A skilled researcher and avid reader of trade publications, able to stay current with our competitors and trends in design, home furnishings, fashion, art, social media etc.
• Fluent in written and spoken English, with clear and concise communication skills
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and a kind demeanor with all colleagues, both teammates and clients alike
• Passionate for home furnishings, design, color, art and craft
• Multitasking and keeping track of long-term custom projects
• Hardworking, patient, and service-oriented during projects with many moving parts
• Excited to collaborate, and encouraging teamwork in group projects
• Social media enthusiasts, able to maintain a presence on the best platforms
• Familiarity with basic systems like Mac OS and Google Suite, and a willingness to learn new systems as we grow

Rug & Kilim is a family-owned New York atelier, renowned for their vast, well-curated inventory and strong archive of custom designs.

For over four decades, Rug & Kilim — led by Jahanshah Nazmiyal — has pioneered the design and development industry, innovating with an encyclopedia of textures, colors, pile heights, yarns, and natural fibers, culminating into a haute couture-inspired custom collection. Alongside his sons, Cyrus and Sina Nazmiyal, and their growing team of dedicated avant-garde creators, the trio has established an exciting and reliable resource for luxury handmade rugs, tapestries and textiles for designers, architects, hospitality professionals, high-end collectors, and all admirers of the craft who share their passion.

The Nazmiyals' emphasis on loyalty, warm hospitality, and a relentless pursuit of knowledge, growth, and reinvention has shaped the venerable house they proudly call home.

The Rug & Kilim archive spans from the 17th Century to contemporary designs benefit ting from a rich collection of antique, vintage, and modern designs in Scandinavian, Art Deco, Mid-Century Modern, Moroccan, and European rugs and Kilims. Their…