Midweight Strategist in London

You are a strategist and deeply motivated to refine your craft. Your days are spent focused on significantly contributing to brand strategies, collaborating with the team around you. The move to Middleweight might not seem different in terms of day-to-day roles, but the responsibilities and expectations increase.

Your Responsibilities:

• You work on original and compelling brand strategies and know how to articulate your ideas well verbally.
• You spend a significant amount of time creating immersion presentations, planning and conducting parts of workshops and working on excellent strategic frameworks with the more senior members of the team.
• You’re beginning to build relationships with clients, demonstrating a sound understanding of their business.
• You keep growing your solid proficiency in the fields of brand strategy and architecture.
• You collaborate intimately with the team around you, learning from them and supporting junior staff.
• You can construct client presentations and are taking the initiative for your own development — seeking and requesting opportunities to present, participate in or lead parts of the process.
• You assist with verbalising creative territories and ensuring the strategy carries through the creative phases of work.
• You demonstrate an active interest in branding and want to 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 are able to manage your calendar and attend meetings on time.
• You have a willingness to work in our London studio and are open to travel globally, from Shanghai to San Francisco.
• You have a great understanding of Figjam, Pitch and Notion.

Our Responsibilities:

• 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 regardless of race, gender, age, or sexual preference.
• We will support you in taking family leave and offer significant paid maternity and paternity.
• 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.
• We will contribute an additional 3% to anyone wanting to engage in the Scottish Widows pension scheme.
• We offer private medical insurance via Vitality Health and a monthly ‘employee wellness’ benefits package via Juno of £75 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, for a set time period and 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 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.