Location
Pune | India
Job description
Job Description
Overview
Avalara is looking to build a PowerPoint center of excellence in Pune. 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 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, and Avalara presentation design templates and norms. They should have excellent written and verbal English skills.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- Together with Manager and other leadership, 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)
- Develop a service that surprises and delights Avalara internal customers in terms of both design quality and turnaround time
- Understand Avalara products and associated marketing initiatives and strategic positioning
- Manage and delegate responsibilities to other PowerPoint production designers/specialists – providing clear creative direction and manage quality output
- Stay on top of trends and maintain best practices
Qualifications
- Proven working experience (5+ years) as PowerPoint design lead and PowerPoint design specialist
- Experience at a firm that produces high volume of PowerPoint presentations (i.e. McKinsey, Citibank) strongly preferred
- Highest level PowerPoint expertise in terms of design and functionality
- Deep understanding of PowerPoint in both PC and Mac environments
- Demonstrable PowerPoint skills with a strong portfolio
- Able to incorporate feedback and take/give direction well
- Team player with strong communication skills
- Experience with Adobe Suite a plus
- Strong knowledge of collaboration withing Microsoft Office 365, and particularly SharePoint and OneDrive
About Avalara
About Avalara:
We’re building cloud-based tax compliance solutions to handle every transaction in the world. Imagine every transaction you make — every tank of gas, cup of coffee, or pair of sneakers, every movie ticket, meal kit, or streamed song, every sensor-to-sensor ping. Nearly every time you make a purchase, physical or digital, there’s an accompanying unique and nuanced tax compliance calculation. The logic behind calculating taxes — the rules, rates, and boundaries is a global, layered, three-dimensional mess of complexity, with compliance dictated by governments and applied by every business, every day.
Avalara works with businesses of all sizes, all over the world — from corner stores to gigantic global retailers — to calculate tax accurately and automatically, at speeds measured in milliseconds. That’s a massive technical challenge, in terms of scale, reliability, and complexity, and we do it better than anyone. That’s why we’re growing fast. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world, in Brazil, Canada, India, U.K, Belgium and across Europe.
Equal Opportunities:
Avalara is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law.
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