Senior Designer

Koto • Los Angeles, CA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

You are an experienced designer, your days are spent relentlessly authoring ideas, designing identities and inspiring an exceptional quality of work in the team around you.

Requirements

• Experienced designer
• Strong understanding of symbolism, typography, color, illustration, iconography and art-direction
• Deep knowledge of branding and the creative practitioners within it
• Strong awareness of the time required to complete design tasks
• Ability to manage your own time, calendar and meetings
• Willingness to work in person in our Culver City studio and are open to travel globally.
• Great understanding of Figma, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Pitch.

Responsibilities

• You generate excellent ideas and know how to articulate them expertly both visually and verbally.
• You run creative catch-ups and idea generating sessions to actively increase the quality of thought in your team.
• You spend a significant amount of time designing, have a strong understanding of, and can create briefs for: symbolism, typography, color, illustration, iconography and art-direction.
• You can compose all of these components into complete world-class brand identities, inspire and lead others to the same result, and practically support their design where needed.
• 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.
• You can construct client presentations and can present work eloquently.
• You assist with and can translate our immersion and strategic phases of work into design execution.
• You demonstrate a deep knowledge of branding and the creative practitioners within it.
• You consistently deliver work for the most impactful companies of today and the founders defining tomorrow.
• You demonstrate ownership of your role and can both take and action feedback from your manager to progress within it and beyond.
• You have a strong awareness of the time required to complete design tasks.
• You are able to successfully manage your own time, calendar and meetings.
• You have a willingness to work in person in our Culver City studio and are open to travel globally.
• You have a great understanding of Figma, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Pitch.

Benefits

• We will ensure you have meaningful and regular access to your manager to support your personal development and career trajectory.
• We will actively reward performance with promotions, pay increases and a discretionary annual bonus of up to 10% of salary to all employees.
• We ensure Koto is an equal environment for all its employees.
• We will support you in taking family leave and offer significant paid maternity and paternity.
• We will actively encourage you to take 25 vacation days yearly, in addition to US national holidays (on average 10), and a studio closure between Christmas and New Year.
• We offer a 401k that you can contribute to and Koto matches up to 4%.
• We deploy a monthly ‘employee wellness’ benefits package via Juno of $105 per month.
• We offer access to YCN and fund relevant training opportunities to any employee looking to develop themselves and career.
• 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.
• We will give you the opportunity to work from any of the five Koto studios globally, with appropriate planning and application.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed