Midweight Designer

You are a designer refining your craft. Your days are spent relentlessly authoring ideas, designing identities, collaborating with the team around you.

Your Responsibilities

1. You generate great ideas and know how to articulate them well both visually and verbally.

2. You spend a significant amount of time designing and have a strong understanding of symbolism, typography, colour, illustration, iconography and art-direction. You can compose all of these components into complete brand identities.

3. You collaborate intimately with the team around you, learning from them and supporting junior staff. You are able to follow direction from the senior team.

4. You can construct components of client presentations and are beginning your journey to present work.

5. You assist with and demonstrate an interest in our immersion and strategic phases of work.

6. You demonstrate an active interest in branding and want to 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 are able to manage your calendar, your time and deadlines to finish tasks.

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

10. You have a great understanding of Figma, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Pitch.

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 NSW public holidays, one additional holiday day per year (capped at 5 additional days), and a studio closure between Christmas and New Year.

6. We will contribute to anyone wanting to engage in a pension scheme, appropriate to your location.

7. We deploy a monthly ‘employee wellness’ benefits package via Juno of $140 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. (Note: Final Reward program to be confirmed for Sydney.)

10. We will give you the opportunity to work from any of the four koto studios globally, with appropriate planning and 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 two weeks 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.