Presentation Designer (R5945)
Washington, D.C. · USD 82,000-120,000 / year · Onsite · Posted Sep 24, 2026
At a glance
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Washington, D.C.
- Salary
- USD 82,000-120,000 / year
About the role
- The Marketing Team at Shield AI is hiring a Slide Designer to design high-impact presentation decks primarily in PowerPoint, translating complex ideas into clear, compelling visual narratives.
- You will take rough content, outlines, and stakeholder input and transform them into polished, presentation-ready slides with strong structure, hierarchy, and flow.
- This role requires a deep focus on storytelling through slides, balancing clarity, visual precision, and executive-level polish across a range of use cases.
Responsibilities
- Translate complex ideas into clear, compelling visual narratives primarily in PowerPoint
- Transform rough content, outlines, and stakeholder input into polished, presentation-ready slides with strong structure, hierarchy, and flow
- Partner closely with marketing, business development, product marketing, and solutions engineering teams to shape messaging and build effective presentations from the ground up
- Own and maintain key PowerPoint assets, including templates, slide masters, reusable components, and flagship product decks
- Help evolve scalable template systems and slide libraries to ensure consistency, efficiency, and alignment across the organization
- Apply advanced PowerPoint capabilities such as custom layouts, animations, transitions, charts, and visual systems to elevate storytelling
- Iterate quickly on feedback, balance high-volume, fast-turn requests with more strategic, high-visibility presentations, and maintain organized files and version control
- Handle sensitive or export-controlled material when applicable
Requirements
- Strong information-design skills, including selecting the right visual form for quantitative, technical, and conceptual information
- Experience building and maintaining scalable PowerPoint templates, slide libraries, and flagship product or sales decks
- Demonstrated ability to translate rough sketches, whiteboard concepts, technical diagrams, and incomplete inputs into clear, polished, brand-aligned visuals
- Experience designing charts, process flows, system diagrams, timelines, frameworks, and other complex presentation graphics
- Ability to simplify complex information without distorting the underlying meaning or removing essential detail
- Strong stakeholder-intake skills, including asking clarifying questions, identifying the intended takeaway, and resolving gaps or ambiguity in source material
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator or another vector-design tool for creating custom presentation graphics
- Ability to build reusable, editable visual components in PowerPoint, not just place flattened artwork into slides
- A portfolio demonstrating before-and-after transformations of complex content, data, or rough source material into effective presentation visuals
- Experience creating Excel-linked charts and translating complex quantitative data into accurate, easy-to-understand visuals
Preferred qualifications
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, or Figma for creating custom visual assets
- Experience translating technical sketches, system concepts, or engineering inputs into polished diagrams and presentation graphics
- Understanding of how presentations support product marketing, business development, sales, and solutions engineering
- Experience designing for technical, B2B, aerospace, defense, or other complex product environments
- Familiarity with accessibility and data-integrity best practices in presentation design
- Experience creating editable, reusable PowerPoint components that can be used effectively by non-designers
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity
- Temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment for temporary employees)
Skills
- PowerPoint
- Adobe Illustrator
- Photoshop
- Figma
- Excel
