Thursday, January 29, 2015

[KITlist] Graphic Designer (Presentations) (Santa Clara, CA)

 

Please direct your responses to: http://tinyurl.com/Working-With-CrawfordGroup


Crawford Group (www.crawfordgroup.com) is looking for a Graphic Designer experienced in the art of executive story-telling through presentations and visual communications. This is a full time consulting opportunity with an established technology company in Santa Clara. (The company has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner for 14 consecutive years.) The role requires full time on-site support in Santa Clara, where you will partner with the Office of the President and CEO to design impactful technology presentations that inspire internal employee audiences and external customer, partner and investor audiences. The Graphic Designer will work directly with the Executive Communications Lead to provide graphic design support for presentations.



The Graphic Designer will be expected to visually illustrate strategic points from executives and participate in the process of story refinement. The Consultant must be able to work "real time," contribute with relevant business input and strive to simplify visual assets to increase the impact of a presentation. This role requires your ability to create presentation decks from scratch in PowerPoint and requires your active collaboration, business understanding and emotional maturity.

Specific Responsibilities:



Collaborate with Executive Communications Lead in the story development process for keynote presentations and internal employee communications

Collaborate with executives to identify strategic points and guide the process of story refinement

Carefully identify the desired outcome of a presentation and provide relevant input for refinements

Provide ideas and solutions of how to simplify presentations for greater impact

Skills:



At least 2-3 years of graphic design experience, preferably at an agency or large company

Emotional maturity in working with Executives; must perform with grace under pressure

Extreme attention to detail and accuracy; executive-level presentations contribute to the brand of the executive and must be error free

Must be capable of prioritizing your workload and quality checking your own work; must be comfortable asking for guidance if competing priorities come into play; this also means being capable of knowing when to ask for help before it is too late to come up with solutions to meet a deadline

Attitude of accountability; committed to high quality output

Flexible and resilient personality; patient with executives in the story development process

Capable of remaining calm and effective in a fast-paced environment

Has the presence of mind to know when to slow-down to increase the quality of the work

Ability to ask probing questions real-time; must pull out salient points to be communicated through visual arts

Experience or familiarity with the Internet of Things or Industrial Internet concepts is preferred

Expert level PowerPoint skills, including the ability to incorporate financial charts/large sets of data into slide decks

Sample presentation work will be required

BA/BS in Graphic Design, Communications, Business, Marketing, Design or similar is required



RATE: D.O.E., as W-2 employee of Crawford Group, benefits available

LOCATION: Five days per week onsite at client's office in Santa Clara, CA. Local, S.F. Bay area applicants only, please. No phone calls please.

HOURS/DURATION: Full-time, ASAP – ongoing. High potential to convert to full-time, permanent employment.

Interested? Apply online and upload your resume in MS Word format to:

http://tinyurl.com/Working-With-CrawfordGroup

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