Freelancer, PPT Designer

CACTUS is a remote-first organization and we embrace an accelerate from anywhere culture. You may be required to travel to our Mumbai office based on business requirements or for company/team events.

As a Freelancer, PowerPoint (PPT) Graphic Designer, your role will be to create visually compelling and professionally designed presentations for a variety of projects, including scientific and technical content. You will utilize your design expertise to develop engaging PowerPoint slides, incorporating animation, graphics, and layout techniques to elevate the visual storytelling. Additionally, you will design supplementary materials like flyers, social media banners, infographics, posters, and graphical abstracts using PowerPoint. Your work will involve understanding client briefs, crafting design concepts, and delivering polished presentations that align with the client's expectations and branding guidelines. If you can read, understand, and work with Japanese, Chinese, and/or Korean content, it will be considered an added advantage.

• Develop high-quality PowerPoint presentations with advanced animations, transitions, and layouts to effectively communicate key messages.
• Create graphical abstracts, flyers, social media banners, infographics, and posters in PowerPoint, ensuring consistency across different formats.
• Understand client briefs and objectives, translating requirements into visually engaging presentations and graphical abstracts.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including content writers and marketing consultants, to enhance the visual narrative.
• Ensure adherence to design principles, maintaining a clean and professional look across all deliverables.
• Review peers and freelancers outputs, providing constructive feedback to ensure quality and delivery-readiness.

• Advanced PowerPoint skills, including animations, transitions, and slide templates, with experience creating presentations, graphical abstracts, infographics, social media creatives, and flyers.
• Strong understanding of design principles such as balance, alignment, contrast, and visual hierarchy familiarity with Illustrator, Photoshop, Canva, or Mind the Graph is a plus.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with scientific content experts and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, meet tight deadlines, and deliver high-quality work as per project requirements.
• Ability to review and provide timely, constructive feedback on the work of peers and freelancers.
• Strong customer focus, with the ability to understand customer needs and incorporate them into deliverables.
• Open to learning, adapting to change, exploring new skills, and keeping up with evolving tools and industry trends.

Before applying, please ensure you meet the role requirements listed above and have legal authorization to work in the country where this role is advertised. Our selection process typically involves an initial screening by a recruiter, a technical assessment, and two to three interview rounds. For this role, we have an assessment round followed by an interview.

Equal Opportunity

Our hiring practices reflect our commitment to providing equal opportunities and creating an environment where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed. We celebrate the uniqueness of our team members and prohibit discrimination of any kind, based on race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

Accelerating from Anywhere

As a remote-first organization, these are essential attributes we look for in all our candidates.

• Taking ownership of your work with minimal supervision, showing strong ability to organize, prioritize and deliver results independently.
• Documenting work that brings everyone on the same page.
• Maturity to choose between synchronous and asynchronous collaboration.
• Effectively collaborating with colleagues across different time zones by setting dedicated hours for collaboration and keeping team members updated through your MS Teams status.

Established in 2002, Cactus Communications () is a leading technology company that specializes in expert services and AI-driven products which improve how research gets funded, published, communicated, and discovered. Its flagship brand Editage offers a comprehensive suite of researcher solutions, including expert services and cutting-edge AI products like Mind the Graph, Paperpal, and R Discovery. With offices in Princeton, London, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo, and Mumbai and a global workforce of over 3,000 experts, CACTUS is a pioneer in workplace best practices and has been consistently recognized as a great place to work.