Presentation & Event Designer

Presentation Designer is needed in Harrisburg, United States.

Overview
JPL’s Live Experience Design team creates large- and small-scale live experiences, experiential marketing, and digital presentations for a host of clients across the world.
We are looking for a freelance designer who has the ability to translate complex information into visually stunning and impactful presentations. In addition to designing top-notch presentations, you’ll have the opportunity to work on many aspects of event design including the ming and space design.

• You are able to digest complex processes and re imagine them into simple visuals
• You have some experience designing presentations but want to collaborate with an experienced team to learn all the tricks of designing stellar decks in PowerPoint
• You understand the importance of an in-person experience at events or conferences and want to learn what goes in to making it all happen
• You jive with strategists, designers, creative, tech, motion artists, account management, and clients to ensure creative vision is carried through
• You’re a balanced left-brain / right-brain thinker with the ability to think in the clouds and quickly land ideas into the practical world
• You’re an outgoing people person
• You welcome other’s opinions and input and are constantly looking for ways to make your designs even better
• You’re great as a cross-functional team player and understand the “all hands-on deck” mentality
• A fast-past environment is your comfort zone, and you’re capable of moving rapidly between mediums, projects, and tasks
• You thrive and stay cool as a cucumber under pressure
• You’re never satisfied with the work but have the ability to move on and put effort toward improving the next piece based on what you just learned
• You totally get the importance of beautiful typography and hierarchy of design
• You wish every presentation you saw was as bad ass as your favorite TED Talk

Qualifications

• Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud programs (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Acrobat
• You understand the importance of great customer service
• Designing in PPT doesn’t scare you
• Positive can-do attitude and excited to venture into new realms of the design world
• Great organization and communication skills

Are you experienced

• 2+ years of experience working as a designer in any medium
• Associate degree in a design-related field
• Portfolio of work showcasing your designer chops, specifically, how you translate the complex into a cohesive story or theme

Applications must include a portfolio of work samples. Resumes received without work samples will not be considered.

Responsibilities/What the work may look like

• Collaborate with account managers and strategists to understand the goals of a specific presentation or event
• Participate in brainstorming the big idea for presentations or events and help plan how the team can bring it to life
• Work with senior presentation designers to develop design themes and templates in PPT
• Concept and design print pieces that tie into the overall theme to be used throughout the event space
• Getting creative with Photoshop to mockup event signage within a space
• Think through how attendees will flow through the event space and translate insights into all the interaction points: pre-event, during the event and post-event
• Collaborate with senior designers and motion teams to create stunning content in PPT that make the presenter shine onstage
• Tell compelling stories through the visuals you create in PPT

Are you looking to pay or is this a collaboration?
Pay to hire someone

Is this ongoing work or a one off job?
Ongoing work

How would you prefer to pay?
Day rate

What’s your day rate budget range? (USD)
$250-400 (Industry average)

Do you have an estimate of the job or project length?
A few months

Are you a company or individual hiring?
Company

Do you have internal sign off on the hire?
Yes

Do you need to hire for a specific city, country or place?
Yes, they need to be at a location (give location in job title)

When do you want to have the freelancer secured by?
2-3 weeks

What is most important for this job?
Quality

How many freelancers do you want to contact you?
4-5

Do you have a job specification or creative brief?
Yes (please enter this in the description)

Does the freelancer need insurance?
Yes

Where did you find Twine?
You contacted me