Senior Talent Manager

Koto•Los Angeles, CA

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

You’re an experienced talent professional who knows the creative industry, has a strong instinct for identifying exceptional talent, and can build trust quickly with candidates and senior leaders alike. You’re proactive, thoughtful, highly organized, and comfortable owning recruitment independently while bringing ideas and perspective to how we build great teams. In Koto’s LA studio, you’ll own recruitment across a range of disciplines, partnering closely with studio leadership and hiring managers to understand what they need, identify and engage the right people, and keep hiring moving with pace and diligence. Reporting to our Talent Director, North America, you’ll have significant autonomy in LA recruitment while working with the team to continually strengthen how we hire, build our networks, and create a thoughtful and distinctly Koto candidate experience.

Requirements

Experience in the creative industry.
Strong instinct for identifying exceptional talent.
Ability to build trust quickly with candidates and senior leaders.
Proactive, thoughtful, and highly organized.
Comfortable owning recruitment independently.
Ability to bring ideas and perspective to team building.
Ability to listen closely, ask good questions, and understand team nuances.
Ability to communicate the Koto opportunity authentically.
Stay close to the creative talent market and build pipelines ahead of hiring needs.
Warm, communicative, honest, and thoughtful candidate interaction.

Nice To Haves

Experience with ATS platforms.

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruitment for our LA studio, from shaping the initial brief and sourcing strategy through screening, interviews, offers, and close.
Independently manage multiple searches while keeping momentum with both candidates and hiring teams.
Build strong, trusted relationships with studio leadership and hiring managers.
Develop a deep understanding of Koto — our work, culture, ambitions, and what makes someone successful here.
Proactively source and build relationships with exceptional talent across brand, digital, strategy, Client Services, motion, and operations.
Create an excellent candidate experience from first conversation through offer.
Bring market knowledge and candidate insights into hiring conversations to help us understand talent availability, compensation expectations, and trends across the wider creative industry.
Partner closely with the Talent Director, North America on recruitment priorities and opportunities to continually improve how we hire.
Own the organization and health of our recruitment pipelines through our ATS platform, keeping candidate information, feedback, and hiring activity current and using those insights to identify bottlenecks or opportunities to improve our process.

Benefits

Meaningful and regular access to manager for personal development and career trajectory support.
Performance-based rewards including promotions and pay increases.
Discretionary annual bonus of up to 10% of salary.
Equal employment environment.
Support for family leave.
Significant paid maternity and paternity leave.
25 vacation days per year.
US national holidays.
Studio closure between Christmas and New Year.
401(k) with company match up to 4%.
Monthly employee wellness benefits package via Juno ($105 per month).
YCN access.
Funding for relevant training opportunities.
Reward for five years of service ($5,000 and five days' holiday).
Reward for ten years of service ($10,000 and four weeks' holiday).
Ability to work from any of the five Koto studios globally (with planning and application).