Shieldai
Presentation Designer (R5945)
Washington, D.C.. Posted a month ago
The role
Design high-impact presentation decks, mainly in PowerPoint, that turn complex ideas into clear visual stories. Build and maintain templates, slide masters, reusable components and flagship product decks. Work with marketing, business development, product marketing and solutions engineering teams.
What you will do
- Design presentation decks, primarily in PowerPoint, from rough content, outlines and stakeholder input
- Own and maintain PowerPoint templates, slide masters, reusable components and flagship product decks
- Help evolve scalable template systems and slide libraries
- Apply custom layouts, animations, transitions, charts and visual systems
- Iterate quickly on feedback, balancing high-volume requests with strategic, high-visibility presentations
- Maintain organized files and version control
- Handle sensitive or export-controlled material when applicable
- Partner with marketing, business development, product marketing and solutions engineering teams
Required qualifications
- Strong information-design skills for quantitative, technical and conceptual information
- Experience building and maintaining scalable PowerPoint templates, slide libraries, and flagship product or sales decks
- Ability to turn rough sketches, whiteboard concepts, technical diagrams and incomplete inputs into polished, brand-aligned visuals
- Experience designing charts, process flows, system diagrams, timelines and frameworks
- Ability to simplify complex information without distorting meaning or removing essential detail
- Strong stakeholder-intake skills, including asking clarifying questions and resolving ambiguity
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator or another vector-design tool
- Ability to build reusable, editable visual components in PowerPoint
- Portfolio showing before-and-after transformations of complex content into presentation visuals
Nice to have
- Experience creating Excel-linked charts and translating quantitative data into visuals
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop or Figma
- Experience translating technical sketches or engineering inputs into polished diagrams
- 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 usable by non-designers
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits (full-time regular employees)
- Temporary benefits package, applicable after 60 days of employment (temporary employees)
Before you apply
- All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check
- Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits
- Salary depends on skill set, experience, licences and certifications, and work location
About the company
Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company that builds intelligent systems to protect service members and civilians. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation technologies.