About the Role
You are an experienced strategist, deeply motivated to refine your craft and evolve your skillset. Your days are spent authoring brand strategies that inspire exceptional quality of work in the team around you.
Responsibilities
- Generate original and compelling brand strategies.
- Articulate ideas expertly verbally.
- Actively increase the quality of work within teams.
- Create insightful immersion presentations.
- Plan and conduct workshops.
- Craft world-class strategic frameworks.
- Inspire strategic thinking in others and support their strategic work.
- Acquire a sound understanding of client businesses.
- Evolve proficiency in brand strategy and architecture.
- Collaborate intimately with the team, learning from directors and teaching practical skills.
- Construct great client presentations and present work eloquently.
- Collaborate intimately with the Design team, verbalizing creative territories.
- Ensure strategy carries through creative phases.
- Demonstrate deep knowledge of branding.
- Deliver work for impactful companies and founders.
- Demonstrate ownership of your role and action feedback.
- Manage your own time, calendar, and meetings effectively.
- Work in the London studio and travel globally.
- Understand Figjam, Pitch, and Notion.
Requirements
- Experienced strategist
- Aware of strengths and weaknesses
- Deeply motivated to refine craft and evolve skillset
- Strong awareness of time required to complete strategic tasks
- Willingness to work in London studio
- Open to travel globally
- Great understanding of Figjam, Pitch and Notion
Skills
- Brand strategy
- Brand architecture
- Presentation skills
- Workshop facilitation
- Strategic framework development
- Client management
- Team collaboration
- Design collaboration
- Time management
- Figjam
- Pitch
- Notion
Location
- London
- Global travel (Shanghai, San Francisco)
Work Type
- In-person
- Optional WFH day on Friday
- Additional 20 days remote per year
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced strategist
Salary/Compensations
- Discretionary annual bonus of up to 10% of salary
Benefits
- Meaningful and regular access to manager for development
- Promotions and pay increases
- Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of salary
- Paid family leave
- Significant paid maternity and paternity leave
- 25 days holiday yearly
- UK bank holidays (on average eight)
- One additional holiday day per year (capped at 5)
- Studio closure between Christmas and New Year
- 3% contribution to Scottish Widows pension scheme
- Private medical insurance via Vitality Health
- Monthly employee wellness benefits package via Juno (£75/month)
- Access to YCN
- Funding for relevant training opportunities
- Reward for five years of service (£5,000 and 5 days holiday)
- Reward for ten years of service (£10,000 and 4 weeks holiday)
- Opportunity to work from any of the five Koto studios globally
About the Company
- At Koto, we encourage our team to be ‘rationally optimistic’ about the potential of our work, our clients, their businesses, and the power of brand.
- We pursue the best briefs, want to inspire meaningful work, and provide opportunities to make the work of their lives.
- We are actively cultivating leadership, culture, and spaces to encourage this.
- We believe working in person produces the best work, mentoring opportunities, collective learning, and culture.
- We encourage autonomy, allowing team members to manage their own time, hours, and personal commitments appropriately to complete work.
Equal Opportunity
- Koto is an equal environment for all its employees regardless of race, gender, age, or sexual preference.
