Senior Digital Designer

Koto•New York, NY

22h•$115,000 - $130,000•Hybrid

About The Position

You are an experienced digital designer: strategic, detail-oriented, and multi-skilled. You combine technical precision with creative ambition, bringing a strong understanding of visual design, user experience, interface design, branding, and front-end principles. You think in systems, care deeply about craft, and know how to take ideas from concept through delivery. At Koto, you’ll help shape world-class digital experiences that bring brands to life across platforms, translating bold ideas into work that’s as thoughtful as it is beautifully executed.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in digital design, product design, or a related field, ideally within an agency, product, or studio environment.
A strong portfolio showing end-to-end digital work across concept, UX, UI, visual design, interaction, and prototyping.
A strong visual design foundation and care about the details that elevate work from functional to excellent.
Strong skills in typography, layout, UI design, interaction design, and visual storytelling.
Comfortable with ambiguity and bring structure and curiosity to problems where there isn't always a clear path forward.
Connect design decisions to business goals and customer needs and can clearly advocate for those decisions to stakeholders.
Fluency in creating and evolving design systems, modular UI, component libraries, and style guides.
Highly proficient in Figma, with a strong grasp of modern digital design workflows, prototyping, and collaboration.
Collaborative and proactive in iterative environments where teams share work often and build on each other’s ideas.

Nice To Haves

Motion design or deeper brand design experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

Generate strong digital ideas rooted in brand, UX, and UI, and communicate them clearly both visually and verbally.
Translate brand strategy, identity, and visual systems into distinctive digital experiences across web, product, and other interactive touchpoints.
Spend significant time designing, from early concepts and prototypes to polished UI, interaction details, and final delivery.
Bring together UX, UI, accessibility, motion, content, and development considerations into cohesive, brand-led digital experiences.
Clearly articulate the thinking behind the work, bringing confidence and clarity to client presentations, reviews, and stakeholder conversations.
Translate insights from immersion and strategy phases into tangible design outcomes.
Take ownership of design quality across your workstreams, balancing craft and priorities as you move between multiple pages, features, or project needs.
Collaborate closely with strategists, writers, designers, developers, producers, and creative directors to move the work forward.
Contribute to a feedback-rich team culture that values critique, iteration, and craft.
Operate independently, managing your own time, meetings, deadlines, and growth with care, while staying open to feedback and direction from senior team members.

Benefits

Meaningful and regular access to your manager to support your personal development and career trajectory.
Performance is actively rewarded with promotions, pay increases, and a discretionary annual bonus of up to 10% of salary to all employees.
Koto is an equal environment for all its employees.
Support in taking family leave and offer significant paid maternity and paternity.
25 days of holiday per year, in addition to DE bank holidays (on average, 10), one additional holiday day per year (capped at 5 additional days), and a studio closure between Christmas and New Year.
An additional 15% (Entgeltumwandlung) contribution to anyone who wants to participate in our company pension scheme.
Comprehensive health insurance through DKV.
€50 each month on your Givve card.
YCN access and funded relevant training opportunities for any employee looking to develop themselves and their career.
Five years of service rewarded with $5,000 and five days' holiday.
Ten years of service rewarded with $10,000 and four weeks' holiday.
Opportunity to work from any of the five Koto studios globally, with appropriate planning and application.