Lead Presentation Designer

As one of the world's largest networks of audit, tax and consulting firms, RSM delivers big ideas and premium service to help middle-market businesses thrive. We are a fast-growing firm with big ambitions - we have a clear goal to become the premium adviser to the middle market, globally. This vision touches everything we do, motivating and inspiring us to become better every day. If you are looking for a firm where you can build a future and make an impact, then RSM is the place for you.

Make an Impact at RSM UK 

We are looking for a Lead Presentation Designer to join RSM UK’s Integrated Marketing & Communications (IMC) team. In this role, you will sit at the heart of our Creative Studio and act as our most senior presentation designer, the person who works directly with our CEO and with national and global leaders to bring strategy and the firm’s key growth agenda to life. The presentations you build are not decoration. They carry the argument. When a leader stands up to set direction, win a mandate or move a room, your work is what makes the thinking land and is clear, credible and impossible to look away from.

Your primary stakeholder is our CEO. That means the work matters, the standard is uncompromising, and the demand is intense and variable. When a high-stakes moment lands, a board session, a market announcement, a keynote, you own it, iterating fast, late if it needs to be, until it is exceptional. This is an agency mindset applied to the most senior audience in the firm, you take the tough brief and the short runway, and you make the work materially better every pass. You will also raise the standard for everyone else, setting the bar for how the firm presents and helping others reach it.

This is a senior role for someone who loves presentation design and is genuinely exceptional at it. Not a stepping stone, not a production line, the craft you want to be the best in the country at, working at the level where it counts most.

You’ll make an impact by:

• Owning the narrative, interrogating raw content and finding the story before you tell it, shaping the narrative rather than just executing someone else’s
• Setting the craft standard, designing to the highest standard for the CEO and senior national and global leaders, translating complex, sensitive material into compelling, clear visual communication that holds up in the most demanding rooms
• Designing to the highest standard for the CEO and senior national and global leaders, translating complex, sensitive material into compelling, clear visual communication that holds up in the most demanding rooms
• Bringing genuine motion and animation craft including advanced PowerPoint animation and transitions, master-slide and template architecture, and the judging to reach for After Effects or Premiere when a moment needs more than slides can give
• Making data land, building charts, diagrams, illustrations and data visualisations that make dense information immediately legible
• Responding to high-intensity, high-profile requests at pace, iterating with a leader in real time and staying calm and sharp when the stakes and the tempo are both high
• Leading on AI-enabled ways of working by championing AI in the creative process as the firm rolls out Microsoft 365 Copilot and using Copilot for PowerPoint and generative tools such as Gamma and Beautiful.ai to work faster and better, and then training and coaching colleagues across the business so the whole firm raises its game
• Developing and stewarding the presentation templates, master slides and assets that let others produce polished, on-brand, on-standard material, raising the floor of everything the firm puts on a screen

What we are looking for:

We value diverse experiences and perspectives. Here’s what we’re looking for in our ideal candidate: 

• Around 6+ years’ experience with a clear focus on presentation and communication design, including agency exposure and ideally professional services, corporate communications or a comparable high-stakes environment
• Exceptional, demonstrable PowerPoint skill, including advanced animation, master-slide management and template creation, with a portfolio that proves it
• A real love of the craft. You want to design presentations, keep getting better, and be recognised for it 
• The ability to take complex, unstructured content and find the argument 
• Sound judgement with confidential and market-sensitive material, and the discretion the most senior audiences in a professional services firm require.
• Agency-honed temperament, you take ownership of high-stakes, time-critical moments and stay calm and sharp under pressure, flexing when a major moment demands it
• Confidence and maturity with senior stakeholders, you can hold your own, challenge and earn the trust of the most senior people in the firm
• Fluency with AI tools in a creative workflow and the generosity and clarity to train and coach others to use them well

What we can offer you:

We recognise that our people are our most important assets. That’s why we offer a flexible reward and benefits package that will help you have fulfilling experience, both in and out of work.

• Hybrid and Flexible working
• 26 Days Holiday (with the option of purchasing additional days)
• Lifestyle, Health, and Wellbeing including financial wellbeing benefits such as financial tools, electric car scheme and access to a virtual GP.
• Access to a suite of 300+ courses on demand developed by our inhouse Talent Development team.

Diversity and Inclusion at RSM

At RSM, we want to create a strong sense of belonging so that people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures feel they can bring their true self to work. Our clients come from all walks of life. We aim to achieve that same diversity of background, experience and perspective in our own teams, so that we can genuinely understand our client's needs. Diverse teams bring a broader range of ideas and insights to work. That's why we're working together to ensure our firm's principles and processes support a firm culture that embraces difference and strengthens inclusion.
At RSM we work hard to create an environment where our people can make a difference - to themselves, their career, their teams, and to the success of our firm and clients. We support all our people to work flexibly, to manage their family and other responsibilities alongside their work commitments; we believe this is key to achieving an inspiring and fulfilling working environment.