The Role

You are an experienced strategist — aware of your strengths and weaknesses — and deeply motivated to refine your craft and evolve your skillset. Your days are spent focussed on authoring brand strategies inspiring an exceptional quality of work in the team around you.

Your Responsibilities

1. You generate original & compelling brand strategies, know how to articulate your ideas expertly verbally and actively increase the quality of work within the teams you‘re part of.

2. You spend a significant amount of time creating insightful immersion presentations, planning and conducting workshops and crafting world-class strategic frameworks, inspire the same in others, and practically support their strategic work where needed. You swiftly acquire a sound understanding of the client business, and keep evolving your excellent proficiency in the fields of brand strategy & architecture.

3. You collaborate intimately with the team around you, learning from your directors and teaching practical skills to less experienced staff.

4. You construct great client presentations and can present work eloquently.

5. You collaborate intimately with the Design team, verbalizing creative territories and ensure the strategy carries through the creative phases of work.

6. You demonstrate a deep knowledge of branding and deliver work for the most impactful companies of today and the founders defining tomorrow.

7. You demonstrate ownership of your role and can both take and action feedback from your manager to progress within it and beyond.

8. You have a strong awareness of the time required to complete strategic tasks. You are able to successfully manage your own time, calendar and meetings.

9. You have a willingness to work in our London studio and are open to travel globally, from Shanghai to San Francisco.

10. You have a great understanding of Figjam, Pitch and Notion.

Our Responsibilities

1. We will ensure you have meaningful and regular access to your manager to support your personal development and career trajectory.

2. We will actively reward performance with promotions, pay increases and a discretionary annual bonus of up to 10% of salary to all employees.

3. We ensure Koto is an equal environment for all its employees regardless of race, gender, age, or sexual preference.

4. We will support you in taking family leave and offer significant paid maternity and paternity.

5. We will actively encourage you to take 25 days holiday yearly, in addition to UK bank holidays (on average eight), one additional holiday day per year (capped at 5 additional days), and a studio closure between Christmas and New Year.

6. We will contribute an additional 3% to anyone wanting to engage in the Scottish Widows pension scheme.

7. We offer private medical insurance via Vitality Health and a monthly ‘employee wellness’ benefits package via Juno of £75 per month.

8. We offer access to YCN and fund relevant training opportunities to any employee looking to develop themselves and career.

9. We reward five years of service with £5,000 and five days holiday. We reward ten years of service with £10,000 and four weeks holiday.

10. We will give you the opportunity to work from any of the five koto studios globally, for a set time period and with appropriate planning & application.

Our Culture

• 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 for those interested provide an opportunity to make the work of their lives. We are actively cultivating leadership, culture and spaces to encourage this.

• We work in person with an optional WFH day on Friday, and an additional 20 days remote a year. We believe this produces the best work, mentoring opportunities, collective learning and culture.

• We encourage autonomy in each member of our team, allowing them to manage their own time, hours and personal commitments appropriately to complete work.