Job Details
What You'll Do
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.
- 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 will add, 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 Avalara's 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
What You'll Need to be Successful
- 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.)
About the Team
The PowerPoint Design Manager will be part of the Brand Marketing team, which consists of the following teams: Campaign and Brand Creative, Brand Advertising, Video, Corporate Events, Content Marketing (Writing, Editorial, and Content Strategists.)
How We'll Take Care of You
Total Rewards
In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.
Health & Wellness
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
Inclusive culture and diversity
Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.
Flexible hybrid working
We support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.
Learn more about our benefits by region here:
About Avalara
We're Avalara. We're defining the relationship between tax and tech.
We've already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year.
Last year, we became a billion-dollar business , and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there's nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we're not slowing down - not until we've achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.
We're bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we've designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.
We've been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.
EEO Statement We're an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company - we don't want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.