Midweight Designer

• Refine your craft as a designer with days spent relentlessly authoring ideas and designing identities. • Collaborate with the team around you on branding work for impactful companies and founders defining tomorrow. • Deliver work across the immersion, strategic, and design phases of projects.

• Generate great ideas and know how to articulate them well both visually and verbally. • Have a strong understanding of symbolism, typography, colour, illustration, iconography, and art direction. • Be able to compose all design components into complete brand identities. • Collaborate intimately with the team, learning from them and supporting junior staff. • Be able to follow direction from the senior team. • Construct components of client presentations and be beginning your journey to present work. • Demonstrate ownership of your role and be able to take and action feedback from your manager. • Be able to manage your calendar, time, and deadlines to finish tasks. • Have a willingness to work in person in the London studio and be open to travel globally. • Have a great understanding of Figma, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Pitch.

• Demonstrate an active interest in branding and want to deliver work for impactful companies. • Assist with and demonstrate an interest in immersion and strategic phases of work.

• Generate great ideas and articulate them well both visually and verbally. • Spend a significant amount of time designing with a strong understanding of symbolism, typography, colour, illustration, iconography, and art direction. • Compose design components into complete brand identities. • Collaborate intimately with the team, learning from them and supporting junior staff. • Follow direction from the senior team. • Construct components of client presentations. • Assist with immersion and strategic phases of work. • Demonstrate ownership of your role and take and action feedback to progress.

• Receive £40,000 to £50,000 salary. • Access meaningful and regular support from your manager for personal development and career trajectory. • Receive promotions, pay increases, and a discretionary annual bonus of up to 10% of salary. • Access significant paid maternity and paternity leave. • Enjoy 25 days holiday yearly plus UK bank holidays, one additional holiday day per year capped at 5 additional days, and studio closure between Christmas and New Year. • Receive an additional 3% pension contribution via Scottish Widows. • Access private medical insurance via Vitality Health. • Receive a monthly employee wellness benefits package via Juno of £75 per month. • Access YCN and funded relevant training opportunities. • Receive £5,000 and five days holiday after five years of service. • Receive £10,000 and four weeks holiday after ten years of service. • Work from any of the four Koto studios globally with appropriate planning.

Koto is a branding studio that pursues the best briefs and wants to inspire meaningful work. The team is encouraged to be rationally optimistic about the potential of their work, clients, businesses, and the power of brand. Koto actively cultivates leadership, culture, and spaces to encourage team members to make the work of their lives. The company has four studios globally and encourages autonomy in each team member.