Best Sites to Find Presentation Design Jobs (2026): Who Each Suits and How to Land a First Gig

Which site is best for presentation design jobs?

It depends on how you prefer to be found.

Where do fresh presentation design requests show up on Reddit?

Two subreddits are worth checking daily: r/forhire and r/designjobs. Use the [Hiring] tag and search for terms such as pitch deck, investor deck, slides, PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides and template.

Speed matters because a post with a clear brief can attract replies quickly, and most of them are generic. A specific one stands out.

Example (hypothetical): A founder posts: [Hiring] Need my 12-slide investor deck cleaned up in PowerPoint, brand colors attached, due next Friday. A weak reply says you are a designer with five years of experience. A stronger reply says you can restructure the story flow, fix the type hierarchy, and rebuild the charts as editable objects. It links one before-and-after deck, asks whether they need PPTX or Google Slides, and confirms the Friday deadline.

Ignore posts that ask for free test slides or offer vague exposure. Agree scope, number of revision rounds, file formats and payment terms in writing before you start.

Do Behance and Dribbble work for presentation design?

Both work, but they are discovery channels more than request boards. Behance has a job list for creative roles, and Dribbble has a jobs page for design roles. Check which listings are actually presentation-related today. Many design listings on both sites are in broader categories, so filter by terms like slides, pitch deck or PowerPoint and expect fewer matches than on a request board.

The bigger value is the portfolio. Publish a deck as a case study rather than a pile of slides: the original, your redesign, and a short note on what changed and why (hierarchy, data visualization, template system). Check each platform's current terms before relying on it.

Is 99designs worth it for presentation work?

99designs is built around logo and branding contests, and pricing varies by contest. Check whether a presentation or PowerPoint category currently exists. If it does not, skip it. Contests also mean unpaid speculative work, so they suit designers who want practice and portfolio pieces more than reliable first clients. If your deck work leans toward branding, our guide to logo design job sites covers it in more depth.

What about Upwork, Fiverr and LinkedIn?

Upwork suits designers who are comfortable writing proposals against a written brief. Search for pitch deck and PowerPoint design, then lead each proposal with one relevant sample and one clarifying question. Fees change, so read Upwork's official Freelancer Service Fee page before pricing a project, rather than trusting old forum posts.

Fiverr is worth a look if you prefer packaging a fixed offer, such as a deck cleanup of a set number of slides. Check Fiverr's official pricing and help pages for current fees and rules.

LinkedIn works differently. Founders and sales leaders often mention an upcoming raise, conference or product launch. Posting short deck teardowns (one cluttered slide, one fixed slide, two sentences on why) gives them a reason to message you first.

How should you price a presentation design project?

There is no universal rate, and figures quoted without a date or a project type are not reliable. Instead, choose a pricing model that fits the brief:

• Per project: best for a defined deck, such as a 12-slide investor deck with a fixed deadline.
• Per slide or per template: useful when the slide count may change or you are building a reusable template system.
• Hourly or day rate: suits open-ended edits, ongoing decks for a team, or work where the brief keeps shifting.

Whichever you pick, write down the slide count, file formats, number of revision rounds and what counts as extra work. Compare your quote with recent listings on the channels above, and see what similar projects were asking for before you send it.

How can Sidequestboard help you find presentation design leads?

The slow part of this search is checking Reddit, X and other public communities one tab at a time, then missing the good post by a day. Sidequestboard pulls fresh public opportunity posts into one feed, including freelance design and illustration posts. You can save the ones worth pursuing, open the original source to reply there, and start from a drafted first reply that you edit.

Take the founder's 12-slide deck post above. You spot it in the feed, save it, open the original Reddit thread, then edit the draft to add your before-and-after sample, your PPTX versus Google Slides question and the Friday deadline. You reply and agree terms directly with the client at the source, with no middleman.

Sidequestboard is available on the App Store for iPhone. Use it as a speed layer on top of your portfolio, not a replacement for it. It does not create jobs or guarantee responses, and the posts come from public sources, so judge each one on its merits.

How do you land your first presentation design gig?

1. Build three proof pieces. Redesign a public deck, a startup pitch template, or a conference talk into a before-and-after case study.
2. Pick two channels. For example, r/forhire plus Behance, or Upwork plus LinkedIn. Spreading across eight sites usually means answering late everywhere.
3. Check daily at a fixed time. Set a 20-minute slot, save promising posts, and reply to the best two or three.
4. Reply specifically. Mention their slide count, deadline and software, and link one relevant sample.
5. Scope before you start. Confirm deliverables (PPTX, Keynote, Google Slides, PDF), revision rounds, deadline and payment terms.
6. Turn the first project into the next. Ask permission to show the finished deck, and offer a reusable template as a follow-up.

If you also do interface or product work, our guide to UX design job sites covers a different set of channels.

How do you choose between these sites?

• You want fast, direct requests: r/forhire, r/designjobs and a fresh-post feed.
• You want clients to find you: Behance, Dribbble and LinkedIn.
• You want a structured process: Upwork.
• You want speed without tab-hopping: use Sidequestboard alongside one portfolio platform.

Start with the channel that fits how you like to work, track what gets replies for two weeks, then cut the rest.

Sources

• Upwork — Freelancer Service Fee — Official platform fee information; verify current terms before relying on pricing.
• Dribbble — Source consulted for the article research.
• Behance — Source consulted for the article research.
• Fiverr — Your Earnings — Official platform fee information; verify current terms before relying on pricing.