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About the Role
This role is for a Special Projects Designer focused on creating original content, thought leadership, and events that elevate Koto's brand. You will define ideas, design, and art direction for digital and physical projects, including editorial content, live events, and new ventures. This is a unique opportunity for an entrepreneurial individual who can identify, develop, and execute impactful ideas.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with Koto’s Chief Creative Officer, London’s Executive Creative Director, and Global Marketing team to shape Koto's brand presence.
- Bring a clear creative vision to Koto’s brand, developing strong concepts and visual systems.
- Co-lead design for special projects like Seasoned, CcType, and the OFF ecosystem.
- Imagine and launch new ventures, events, collaborations, and products.
- Take projects from concept development through to final delivery.
- Lead the visual output of Koto’s social channels, creating engaging branded content.
- Design across a broad range of formats including brand identity, campaigns, editorial, events, presentations, digital experiences, merchandise, and moving image.
- Bring fresh thinking to studio launches, cultural moments, hiring campaigns, and celebrations.
- Experiment with new tools, formats, and production techniques.
- Collaborate with designers, strategists, writers, filmmakers, developers, photographers, and external makers.
- Take ownership of work, managing projects with pace and care.
- Present ideas confidently and respond well to feedback.
- Play an active role in the London studio and wider global team.
Requirements
- Strong ideas
- Excellent taste
- Curiosity
- Ability to learn quickly
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Ability to spot a good idea and push it further
- Ability to turn ideas into something people notice, share, and talk about
- Ability to manage own time, hours, and personal commitments appropriately to complete work.
Skills
- Design
- Art direction
- Concept development
- Visual systems
- Brand identity
- Campaigns
- Editorial design
- Event design
- Presentation design
- Digital experiences
- Merchandise design
- Moving image design
- Social media content creation
- Motion skills (nice to have)
- Project management
Location
- London
Work Type
- In-person
- Optional WFH day on Friday
- Additional twenty days remote a year
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Salary/Compensations
- Discretionary annual bonus of up to 10% of salary
Benefits
- Meaningful access to manager and creative leadership
- Support for development
- Room to shape the role and propose new ideas
- Active reward for performance through promotions and pay increases
- Significant paid maternity and paternity policies
- 25 days of annual leave
- UK bank holidays
- One additional day of annual leave for each year of service (capped at five days)
- Studio closure between Christmas and New Year
- 3% contribution to Scottish Widows pension scheme
- Monthly employee wellness allowance of £75 through Juno
- Access to YCN
- Funding for relevant training opportunities
- £5,000 and five additional days of holiday for five years of service
- £10,000 and four weeks of additional holiday for ten years of service
- Opportunities to work from and travel to 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.
Equal Opportunity
- We will ensure Koto is an equal and inclusive environment for every employee.
- We will support family leave.