About the Role
Sr. Manager, PowerPoint Design
Job LocationsUS
Position TypeRegular
ID 2024-13532
Category Marketing
Overview
Avalara today has many freelance and vendor relationships with excellent PowerPoint design capabilities. These resources are located primarily on the West Coast of the United States. We are looking to build a PowerPoint center of excellence internally at Avalara. We expect this to be focused with a Sr. Manager of PowerPoint Design based on the east coast of the United States. This person will have oversight over our Freelance/vendor relationships primarily on the west coast of the U.S., as well as responsibility for building out a PowerPoint center of excellence in Pune, India.
We are looking for a person who has outstanding technical proficiency in PowerPoint and understands how it operates (both good and bad) in both Mac and PC environments. They should be a highly adept visual storyteller, able to synthesize complex concepts and express those ideas in the simplest visual form. They should not be adept just technically, but at understanding what is trying to be communicated and have the design acumen to visualize the information in a simple, compelling, brand-first way. This person should have excellent leadership skills and be able to mentor designers in PPT best practices, as well as our Avalara presentation design templates and norms. They should have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Responsibilities
- This person will own the Avalara Corporate Compendium or slide library and understand who to work with to keep all information up to date. They willadd, maintain, and remove slides as the business demands
- They will maintain consistency and accuracy of our Why Avalara deck modifying as needs change
- They will own our corporate template and keep it constantly updated
- Set up an SLA for a quick-turn PPT deck consultancy where presenters at Avalara can send a deck to our PowerPoint Production team to ensure that current template is being followed and only proper Slide Master is in place in the deck. (This is a significant consistency problem today)
- Understand the nuances of design differences from decks coming from different Avalara stakeholders
- Drive quality and consistency of all PowerPoint decks that are used throughout the company
- Take direction from multiple stakeholders and be able to determine the level of support needed, and best resources to reach the goals of the presenter and company
- Find the best path given differing types of presentation needs and difficult/short timelines. (Types of presentations will vary from McKinsey consultant type decks, to more storytelling image and sparse text approaches)
- Develop and have a strong understanding for Avalaras go-to-market story, our products, and how to tell that story with slides that meet business objectives
- This person should both a doer and a leader who leads by example with a positive outlook and can-do nature
- Develop a service that surprises and delights Avalara internal customers in terms of both design quality and turnaround time
- Understand Avalara products, marketing initiatives, and strategic positioning
- Manage and delegate responsibilities to other PowerPoint production designers providing clear creative direction and manage quality output
- Stay on top of trends and maintain best practices
Qualifications
- Idea candidate has 5+ years managing designers (ideally PowerPoint designers) in agency or corporate environments
- Management of teams across geographic and backgrounds
- Full design and technical expertise within PowerPoint and clear understanding of the nuances between a PowerPoint in a Mac and PC environments
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 (Word, Excel, PPT, SharePoint, OneDrive, etc.)