Sr. Manager, PowerPoint Design Canada - Socotra, Inc.

Description

Overview

Avalara, Inc., (), is the leading provider of cloud-based software that delivers a broad array of compliance solutions related to sales tax and other transactional taxes.

What is it like to work at Avalara? Come find out We are committed to the following success traits that embody our culture and how we work together to accomplish great things: Fun. Passion. Adaptability. Urgency. Simplicity. Curiosity. Humility. Ownership. Optimism.

We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced Sr. Manager, PowerPoint Design to join our team.

Avalara today has many freelance and vendor relationships with excellent PowerPoint design capabilities. These resources are located primarily on the West Coast of the United States. We are looking to build a PowerPoint center of excellence internally at Avalara. We expect this to be focused with a Sr. Manager of PowerPoint Design based in Ontario, Canada. This person will have oversight over our Freelance/vendor relationships, as well as responsibility for building out a PowerPoint center of excellence in Pune, India.

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 be a highly adept visual storyteller, able to synthesize complex concepts and express those ideas in the simplest visual form. 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, as well as our Avalara presentation design templates and norms. They should have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• This person will own the Avalara "Corporate Compendium" or slide library and understand who to work with to keep all information up to date. They will add, maintain, and remove slides as the business demands
• They will maintain consistency and accuracy of our "Why Avalara" deck – modifying as needs change
• They will own our corporate template and keep it constantly updated
• 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)
• 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, and best resources to reach the goals of the presenter and company
• 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
• Develop a service that surprises and delights Avalara internal customers in terms of both design quality and turnaround time
• Understand Avalara products, marketing initiatives, and strategic positioning
• Manage and delegate responsibilities to other PowerPoint production designers – providing clear creative direction and manage quality output
• Stay on top of trends and maintain best practices

• Corporate environments
• Management of teams across geographic and backgrounds
• Full design and technical expertise within PowerPoint and clear understanding of the nuances between a PowerPoint in a Mac and PC environments
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 (Word, Excel, PPT, SharePoint, OneDrive, etc.)

Benefits

Avalara's benefits for eligible employees includes company benefits such as medical, dental, and vision coverage, life, AD&D, and disability insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, 17 days of paid time off annually, 12 paid holidays, paid parental leave, an employee assistance program, and subsidized transportation options for commuters.

All benefits are subject to eligibility requirements and Avalara reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice, unless otherwise required by law.

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.