Job Summary

The Executive Presentation Designer collaborates with senior executives, commercial banking sales teams, and other internal clients to produce PowerPoint presentations for financial industry conferences, sales pitchbooks, investor meetings, and more. Consults with presenters to understand the strategic vision for each project. Assesses data and translates it into compelling, on-brand visual stories using imagery, infographics, illustration, color, and typography. In addition to supporting presentation requests, creates and maintains PowerPoint templates and design elements to be utilized enterprise wide. As part of the in-house Creative Studio team, upholds design best-practices, supports the team with constructive feedback to produce great work, and nurtures a creative culture within the group.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborates with senior executives, commercial banking sales teams, and other internal clients to create specialized presentations for financial industry conferences, sales pitchbooks, investor meetings, and more.
• Consults with senior leaders and their teams to understand the vision for each presentation, including strategic objectives and project requirements.
• Creates streamlined executive presentations incorporating PowerPoint best practices that complement presenter narratives to ensure compelling, immersive audience experiences.
• Simplifies presentation of complex financial information and concepts with visual storytelling techniques, illustrations, infographics, financial diagrams, and process flows.
• Uses knowledge of descriptive and inferential statistics, types of data, and standard charts and graphs to guide information visualization.
• Maintains a pulse on cutting-edge data visualization trends.Develops and maintains branded PowerPoint templates for internal use by all team members and provides training and instructional material as needed to ensure proper use.
• Serves as a subject matter expert (SME) and consultant for all team members on PowerPoint best practices.
• Develops and maintains a library of reusable design components to improve efficiency when delivering future revisions and requests.
• Contributes to day-to-day Creative Studio production not specific to presentations, as time allows.
• Adheres to high professional standards and deadlines in development of presentations and in assistance with other creative development tasks within the Creative Studio.
• Follows established workflow and project management tools.
• Each team member is expected to be aware of risk within their functional area. This includes observing all policies, procedures, laws, regulations and risk limits specific to their role. Additionally, they should raise and report known or suspected violations to the appropriate Company authority in a timely fashion.
• Performs other related duties as required

The information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Synovus is an Equal Opportunity Employer supporting diversity in the workplace

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Digital Design, or closely related area of study or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Minimum Experience:

• Three years professional experience focused on presentation design in a corporate, marketing/advertising agency, or in-house studio environment.

Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Mastery of Powerpoint, Excel, and other Microsoft tools.
• Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite - primarily Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, XD.
• Ability to synthesize information from multiple sources to inform design.
• Understanding of visual design as a powerful, strategic tool to communicate ideas and connect emotionally with an audience.
• Ability to work creatively within a brand identity framework.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to represent the Synovus Creative Studio in presentations, effectively communicating creative rationale.
• Exhibits a passion for great design with a strong understanding of fundamental design principles such as typography, composition, information hierarchy, and iconography.
• Thrives collaborating in a team environment, whether in-person or working remotely.
• Approaches all projects, large or small, as challenges to create great work.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Experience in financial or related industry.