The Marketing Team at Shield AI is hiring a Slide Designer to design high-impact presentation decks primarily in PowerPoint, translating complex ideas into clear, compelling visual narratives. You will take rough content, outlines, and stakeholder input and transform them into polished, presentation-ready slides with strong structure, hierarchy, and flow. This role requires a deep focus on storytelling through slides, balancing clarity, visual precision, and executive-level polish across a range of use cases.
You will partner closely with marketing, business development, product marketing, and solutions engineering teams to shape messaging and build effective presentations from the ground up. A core part of the role is owning and maintaining key PowerPoint assets, including templates, slide masters, reusable components, and flagship product decks. You will help evolve scalable template systems and slide libraries to ensure consistency, efficiency, and alignment across the organization.
In addition, you will apply advanced PowerPoint capabilities such as custom layouts, animations, transitions, charts, and visual systems to elevate storytelling. You will iterate quickly on feedback, balance high-volume, fast-turn requests with more strategic, high-visibility presentations, and maintain organized files and version control. This role also requires careful handling of sensitive or export-controlled material when applicable.
Required qualifications:
- Strong information-design skills, including selecting the right visual form for quantitative, technical, and conceptual information.
- Experience building and maintaining scalable PowerPoint templates, slide libraries, and flagship product or sales decks.
- Demonstrated ability to translate rough sketches, whiteboard concepts, technical diagrams, and incomplete inputs into clear, polished, brand-aligned visuals.
- Experience designing charts, process flows, system diagrams, timelines, frameworks, and other complex presentation graphics.
- Ability to simplify complex information without distorting the underlying meaning or removing essential detail.
- Strong stakeholder-intake skills, including asking clarifying questions, identifying the intended takeaway, and resolving gaps or ambiguity in source material.
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator or another vector-design tool for creating custom presentation graphics.
- Ability to build reusable, editable visual components in PowerPoint—not just place flattened artwork into slides.
- A portfolio demonstrating before-and-after transformations of complex content, data, or rough source material into effective presentation visuals.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience creating Excel-linked charts and translating complex quantitative data into accurate, easy-to-understand visuals.
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, or Figma for creating custom visual assets.
- Experience translating technical sketches, system concepts, or engineering inputs into polished diagrams and presentation graphics.
- Understanding of how presentations support product marketing, business development, sales, and solutions engineering.
- Experience designing for technical, B2B, aerospace, defense, or other complex product environments.
- Familiarity with accessibility and data-integrity best practices in presentation design.
- Experience creating editable, reusable PowerPoint components that can be used effectively by non-designers.
Skills Required
- Strong information-design skills for quantitative, technical, and conceptual information
- Experience building and maintaining scalable PowerPoint templates, slide libraries, and flagship product or sales decks
- Ability to transform rough sketches, whiteboard concepts, technical diagrams, and incomplete inputs into polished visuals
- Experience designing charts, process flows, system diagrams, timelines, frameworks, and complex presentation graphics
- Ability to simplify complex information while preserving essential meaning and detail
- Strong stakeholder-intake and clarification skills
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator or another vector-design tool
- Ability to build reusable, editable visual components in PowerPoint
- Portfolio demonstrating transformation of complex content, data, or rough source material into effective presentation visuals
- Experience creating Excel-linked charts and translating quantitative data into accurate visuals
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, or Figma
- Experience translating technical sketches, system concepts, or engineering inputs into polished diagrams
- Understanding of presentations for product marketing, business development, sales, and solutions engineering
- Experience designing for technical, B2B, aerospace, defense, or complex product environments
- Familiarity with accessibility and data-integrity best practices
- Experience creating editable, reusable PowerPoint components for non-designers
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
At Shield AI, you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.
Why Work With Us
Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield AI builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.
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