What You Will Do
- Own presentation design strategy and execution end to end, leading projects from initial concept through final delivery while staying aligned with objectives, timelines, and brand guidelines.
- Design visually compelling presentations that combine storytelling, information design, and data visualization to communicate key messages clearly and memorably.
- Build and maintain a cohesive presentation design system, including templates, components, layouts, motion principles, documentation, and usage guidelines.
- Develop scalable, branded presentation frameworks across Google Slides, PowerPoint, Figma, and Keynote so teams can move quickly without sacrificing quality or consistency.
- Partner with Design Engineering to explore, prototype, and potentially build internal tools that improve how presentations are created, maintained, and scaled across the company.
- Establish workflows and governance for presentation assets, making it easy to distribute updates, maintain consistency, and evolve the system alongside the Vercel brand.
- Identify repetitive presentation-design tasks and create systems, automation, or tooling that reduce manual work and improve quality at scale.
- Build and maintain a consistent visual identity across all presentation materials, ensuring every deck reflects Vercel's brand.
- Partner directly with executives and speakers to tailor narratives and visuals to their individual voice, style, audience, and presentation needs.
- Integrate multimedia, including animation, video, and interactive elements, to maximize audience engagement during high-stakes moments.
- Translate complex technical ideas into clear, engaging visuals, researching topics deeply enough to identify the simplest and most compelling way to explain them.
- Iterate quickly on feedback from executives and cross-functional partners, delivering polished, presentation-ready materials under deadline pressure.
- Support Vercel's highest-visibility moments, including product launches, corporate events, customer presentations, and executive keynotes, with design that performs on the main stage.
About You
- 4+ years of experience in visual communication, presentation design, brand design, or multimedia design.
- Expert proficiency in Google Slides, Keynote, PowerPoint, and Figma Slides.
- Strong understanding of presentation systems, including templates, reusable components, master layouts, documentation, and asset governance.
- Experience building and maintaining scalable, on-brand self-service templates for use by teams with different levels of design expertise.
- A systems-oriented mindset and an interest in improving creative workflows through tooling, automation, and close collaboration with engineers.
- Experience partnering with design engineers or developers to prototype or build internal creative tools is highly valued.
- Experience incorporating multimedia elements such as audio, video, animation, and interactive content.
- Experience developing visual narratives for B2B SaaS, developer tools, technical products, or services.
- Ability to research and precisely translate complex information into clear and compelling visual narratives.
- Adept at customizing presentations to align with different speakers, audiences, formats, and themes.
- Proven track record of designing high-impact presentations for main-stage corporate events as well as smaller executive, strategic, and customer-facing meetings.
- Experience collaborating effectively with C-suite executives and senior leaders on presentation projects.
- Portfolio demonstrating a range of presentation work across different formats, themes, audiences, and levels of visibility.
- Evidence of strong project management from initial concept through final delivery.
- Track record of maintaining brand integrity across a broad presentation ecosystem.
Bonus If You
- You have motion design or motion graphics skills.
- You have experience building plugins, prototypes, automation, or internal creative tools.
- You understand front-end development or have experience collaborating closely with Design Engineering teams.
- You are comfortable flexing into smaller brand and visual-design projects when time allows.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package, including equity.
- Inclusive Healthcare Package.
- Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills.
- Flexible Time Off.
- We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed.
The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $152,000 - $209,000. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location. Compensation outside of San Francisco may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package may include benefits, equity-based compensation, and eligibility for a company bonus or variable pay program depending on the role.
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