Senior Visual, Communications Designer, Presentations & Multimedia
Manhattan Associates · Atlanta, GA · 2 wk ago
HybridDesignFull-time
Responsibilities
- Translate complex business, product, technical, and strategic ideas into clear, compelling visual concepts.
- Develop creative approaches from rough briefs, incomplete content, executive input, data, speaker notes, or early-stage ideas.
- Identify the central message within a large amount of information and create a visual system that makes it easier to understand and remember.
- Recommend the right creative format for the idea, whether that is a presentation, diagram, animation, short-form video, infographic, event visual, digital asset, or combination of mediums.
- Create conceptual frameworks, visual metaphors, diagrams, information graphics, and data visualizations that make abstract ideas tangible.
- Bring a distinct point of view to the work rather than simply formatting or decorating content.
- Design and produce presentations across the full spectrum—from clear, functional internal communications to high-end, visually sophisticated keynotes for major external events.
- Transform rough outlines, raw content, and speaker notes into polished visual narratives with a clear structure, pace, and emotional arc.
- Produce large-scale main-stage presentations for user conferences, customer summits, product launches, executive meetings, and company events.
- Incorporate animation, video, live demos, data visualization, speaker choreography, and multi-screen content into cohesive presentation experiences.
- Build and maintain presentation templates, slide libraries, modular assets, and design systems that enable consistent, on-brand output at scale.
- Ensure presentation files are technically reliable, efficiently constructed, and prepared for handoff, rehearsal, and live production.
- Extend visual concepts beyond presentations into formats such as event screens, digital experiences, social media, executive communications, videos, one-pagers, infographics, internal campaigns, and customer-facing assets.
- Edit and produce short-form video content, including keynote openers, product demos, executive videos, customer stories, social clips, and event sizzle reels.
- Create light motion graphics, animated typography, transitions, titles, diagrams, and presentation-integrated animations using Adobe After Effects or similar tools.
- Develop storyboards and visual treatments for more advanced motion or video projects that may be completed with internal or external production partners.
- Source, generate, select, and adapt photography, illustration, iconography, video, and other assets to create a cohesive visual language.
- Partner with brand, content, events, product marketing, communications, and digital teams to ensure ideas translate consistently across channels.
- Understand the fundamentals of live-event and screen-based design, including scale, resolution, aspect ratios, legibility, pacing, and environmental context.
- Use generative AI and AI-assisted creative tools as an integral part of the design process—not as an occasional add-on.
- Evaluate emerging AI design tools and determine where they can meaningfully improve speed, quality, scalability, or creative possibility.
- Build repeatable AI-assisted workflows that allow the creative team to explore more directions, iterate faster, and reduce low-value manual production.
- Share effective AI workflows, prompts, techniques, and lessons with other members of the creative and marketing organization.
- Maintain a high creative standard regardless of how the work was produced; AI should accelerate craft, not replace it.
- Collaborate with speakers, executives, strategists, and content owners to understand what an audience needs to think, feel, understand, or do.
- Help shape the story—not simply design the content after it has been finalized.
- Apply strong editorial judgment to distill complex information into clear, audience-appropriate narratives.
- Know what to emphasize, what to simplify, what to remove, and how to sequence information for maximum impact.
- Create visual pacing and moments of emphasis that hold attention and make important ideas memorable.
- Ensure every major deliverable has a clear point of view and takes the audience somewhere.
Qualifications
- 5–8 years of professional experience in visual communications, presentation design, brand design, multimedia design, or a closely related creative role.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual thinking, sophisticated visual design, information design, and the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly.
- Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote, including advanced animation, master-slide architecture, template development, and large-file management.
- Demonstrated experience producing main-stage, conference-level, product-launch, or executive presentations for high-profile audiences.
- Strong visual design fundamentals, including typography, composition, layout, hierarchy, color, imagery, and visual systems.
- Exceptional visual storytelling and narrative instincts—you can receive a large, unstructured collection of information and find the story and visual idea within it.
- Demonstrated experience using generative AI and AI-assisted design tools to improve the speed, range, and efficiency of creative work.
- The ability to explain how AI has been incorporated into your creative process, with portfolio examples or case studies showing its practical application.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Illustrator and Photoshop.
- Experience with Adobe After Effects or a similar motion-design tool, with the ability to create light motion graphics, animated type, transitions, and visual explainers.
- Video editing proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or a similar platform.
- Experience designing across multiple formats and channels, not solely presentations.
- Strong project-management skills and the ability to manage multiple high-priority workstreams simultaneously.
- Strong interpersonal skills and confidence working directly with senior executives and demanding stakeholders.
- The ability to work independently, make sound creative decisions, and move projects forward without requiring highly prescriptive direction.