Presentation & Experience Designer

We’re looking for a highly creative, detail-oriented Presentation & Experience Designer to elevate how our agency shows up—across pitches, marketing materials, and our digital presence. You’ll be responsible for the visual quality of our business development efforts, help shape agency marketing collateral, and play a key role in enhancing the design and user experience of our website. As a media agency without an in-house creative team, this position will turn strategy and ideas into clear, compelling, and visually engaging work that reflects our brand at every touchpoint. If you’re a designer who thrives on storytelling, clarity, and high-impact visuals—and you’re excited to help define and evolve a brand—this role is for you.

• Design high-impact pitch decks, proposals, and client presentations from outlines, drafts, or raw content
• Translate complex media strategies, data, and performance insights into clear, persuasive visual narratives
• Create and maintain presentation templates (Google Slides, PowerPoint, Keynote)
• Elevate presentations with custom charts, diagrams, frameworks, and storytelling structures, not just polished slides
• Utilize AI-enabled tools to create decks for speed to market and consistency of format and quality of presentation.
• Partner closely with leadership and business development teams on high-stakes new business pitches

• Design agency marketing collateral including one-sheets, case studies, credentials decks, and sales materials
• Support the Business Development team with visually compelling materials that strengthen our positioning and win rate
• Help craft and evolve how the agency tells its story across all outbound materials
• Ensure consistency and quality across all branded assets

• Improve and enhance the visual design, layout, and user experience of the agency website
• Ensure the agency’s brand is consistently and effectively expressed across all web pages
• Collaborate on content presentation, page structure, and visual storytelling
• Design graphics, layouts, and visuals that elevate the overall look and feel of the site

• Create low- to mid-fidelity wireframes for simple client-facing experiences (landing pages, dashboards, content hubs)
• Improve flow, structure, and usability across presentations and digital concepts
• Apply core UX principles (information architecture, hierarchy, clarity) without needing full product design depth

• Help define and evolve the agency’s visual identity in the absence of a formal creative team
• Build reusable design systems (slide templates, iconography, chart styles, layouts)
• Create brand consistency across presentations, marketing collateral, & digital platforms
• Apply both agency and client brand guidelines accurately and thoughtfully

• 3–6 years of relevant design experience (agency experience preferred)
• Advanced proficiency in Google Slides and/or PowerPoint (essential)
• Proficiency in Figma (or similar tools) for layout and light UX work
• Experience using AI enabled tools for deck design and marketing.
• Strong understanding of visual hierarchy; typography; layout, spacing, and composition; and storytelling through design
• Experience creating materials for client-facing or executive audiences
• Ability to take rough content and transform it into clear, compelling design

Please Note: This is a hybrid position requiring a combination of in-office work at our Chicago location and remote work from home. The specific schedule will be finalized upon hire.  We are only looking for candidates in/around the Chicago Metro Area and do not offer relocation assistance.

NOVUS is an independent local media planning and buying agency. We are focused on local media of all types including video, audio, OOH, digital, and print. We have carved out a unique position in the marketplace; with comprehensive data sets, proprietary tools and some of the best strategists in the industry, NOVUS builds and executes plans that achieve remarkable results.

NOVUS provides a collaborative work environment, with career advancement potential and offers an array of benefits as well as considerable time off allowances. Additionally, as a mid-sized agency, team members have direct exposure to senior management on a regular basis and they get the opportunity to work on a range of assignments with significant responsibilities. By joining one of the premier media companies in the industry, you'll be part of a team that is passionate, engaged, forward-thinking and seizing opportunities daily.

We are committed to providing salary ranges for all open positions. Please note that the specific compensation for this role will be determined based on your experience, qualifications, location, and internal equity considerations. The salary range for this position is: $65,000 - $85,000. This range reflects the base salary for this position.

NOVUS offers a full array of health care and wellness benefits, which currently includes medical, prescription, dental, vision, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurances, short and long-term disability, pre-tax flexible spending accounts, a health savings account, legal services, identity theft protection and an employee assistance program. Eligible employees are those that are full-time salaried or part-time salaried employees working 30 hours per week or more, as well as those whose eligibility is required by applicable state law.  A group retirement savings plan is also available to all salaried employees.  While the Company continually seeks to improve upon and add to its current benefits suite, it believes you will find the benefit programs as comprehensive as any in the industry.

Novus Media is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against and applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, marital or family status, age, gender identity or expression, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.  Our agency is committed to creating a workplace where every employee feels welcomed, respected, and valued. We embrace diversity in all its forms, and we strongly encourage people from a variety of backgrounds to apply.