Presentation Designer

Job title: Presentation Designer

Company: GitHub

Job description: GitHub is looking for a talented Presentation Designer to partner with company leadership in the conceptualization, design, and development of internal and external presentations, including developing or refining the story arc and creating iconography, illustration, and layout. This role serves as a key ambassador for the GitHub brand that is known and loved by developers around the world.

As a Presentation Designer at GitHub, you’ll work directly with company spokespeople to creatively translate internal narratives into clear, compelling, and visually interesting presentations. You’re passionate about setting the bar high and maintaining excellence in all aspects of your work, from production to communication. You have a breadth of understanding about business marketing collateral creation, graphic design, design systems, and translating complex messaging and stories into elegant and easy to understand visuals.

Our ideal applicant is self-motivated, detail-oriented, and, above all, proactive. We look for Presentation Designers with excellent communication skills, an ability to stay nimble and responsive to ever-evolving requests, respect for confidentiality of highly sensitive information, an understanding of creative methods and thinking, empathy for the needs of all stakeholders, and strong project management skills to ensure projects ship as planned.

The role is US-remote based. Some domestic and international travel may be needed post-Covid (less than 10% annually).

Responsibilities:

• Work with stakeholders to understand goals and target audience to visualize impactful stories
• Use collaboration and design tools, along with design best practices, to create presentations ranging from company all hands, executive keynote presentations and sales and product decks.
• Ensure compelling design production under tight timelines.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and stakeholders.
• Work across the company where needed to brand internal programs, build out infographics, or create other means to effectively communicate key data.
• Collaborate with members of cross functional teams including Communications, Marketing, HR and Design.
• Partner with the Creative Director, Designers, Copywriter and others to contribute to the creation of concepts through active participation in brainstorms.
• Ability to be on-site for major company events to ensure presentations run smoothly, sometimes with last minute changes.

Qualifications:

• Articulate design choices and rationale to internal teams and stakeholders.
• Strong visual storytelling capability, both narrative flow recommendations and ability to maximize visuals in several channels.
• Proactiveness in communicating progress on projects with stakeholders and ability to manage one’s own timelines, milestones, and deadlines.
• Mastery of Keynote, Google Slides, and PowerPoint as storytelling design tools to delight and inspire.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
• Design degree is not required, but is a plus (so is the equivalent demonstration of design experience and aptitude).
• Ability to quickly adopt and understand new technology and tools.
• Desire to help other team members grow.
• Ability to share and receive feedback on design direction, as well as learn from teammates and stakeholders.
• General understanding of GitHub’s industry and business context is a plus.

Who We Are:

GitHub is the developer company. We make it easier for developers to be developers: to work together, to solve challenging problems, and to create the world’s most important technologies. We foster a collaborative community that can come together-as individuals and in teams-to create the future of software and make a difference in the world.

Leadership Principles:

Customer Obsessed – Trust by Default – Ship to Learn – Own the Outcome – Growth Mindset – Global Product, Global Team – Anything is Possible – Practice Kindness

Why You Should Join:

At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees (Hubbers) to do the best work of their lives. We’ve designed one of the coolest workspaces in San Francisco (HQ), where many Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The rest of our Hubbers work remotely around the globe. Check out an updated list of where we can hire here: https://github.com/about/careers/remote

We are also committed to keeping Hubbers healthy, motivated, focused and creative. We’ve designed our top-notch benefits program with these goals in mind. In a nutshell, we’ve built a place where we truly love working, we think you will too.

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there’s any way we can make the interview process better for you; we’re happy to accommodate!

Please note that benefits vary by country. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask your Talent Partner.

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Job date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:53:05 GMT