Senior Digital Designer

The Role

You are an experienced digital designer with exceptional visual craft, a sharp eye for detail, and a deep understanding of digital experiences. You thrive at the intersection of brand and product—bringing ideas to life through thoughtful, beautifully executed design.

You're equally comfortable thinking conceptually and designing at the highest level of fidelity. You know how to take an established brand and design system and evolve it into fresh, engaging experiences across web, product, and interactive touchpoints. You understand that great digital design isn't just about aesthetics—it's about creating experiences that feel intuitive, dynamic, and unmistakably on-brand.

Your Responsibilities

• Create exceptional digital design
• Design beautiful, thoughtful digital experiences with a strong focus on visual design and UI craft. You understand how typography, color, layout, motion, and interaction work together to create compelling experiences that feel both distinctive and intuitive.
• Think conceptually and execute with precision
• Contribute to creative concepts and help translate strategic thinking into digital experiences. You can move fluidly between big-picture thinking and meticulous execution, delivering work that is both imaginative and highly resolved.
• Evolve and extend design systems
• Know how to work within established brand and design systems while finding opportunities to push them forward. You can translate existing visual languages into new web pages, campaigns, and experiences that feel fresh and dynamic while maintaining consistency.
• Craft work at the highest level of quality
• Produce polished, presentation-ready designs that are suitable for client review and development handoff. You care deeply about the details and take pride in delivering work that is pixel-perfect and thoughtfully considered.
• Bring systems thinking to digital design
• Fluent in Figma and comfortable working with complex component libraries and design systems. You think beyond individual screens, designing scalable solutions that can grow and evolve across multiple touchpoints.
• Contribute to storytelling and presentations
• Help shape compelling creative narratives and communicate design decisions clearly. You're comfortable presenting your work, discussing your thinking, and incorporating feedback from clients and colleagues.
• Absorb emerging technology
• Curious about new creative tools and technologies, including AI. You understand how generative tools can support creative exploration and accelerate workflows while maintaining a high standard of craft and originality.
• Elevate the team around you
• Collaborate closely with fellow designers, creative leads, and adjacent creative partners—sharing ideas, offering feedback, and helping raise the overall quality of the work.

What We're Looking For

• Significant experience designing digital products, websites, and interactive experiences
• Exceptional visual design and UI skills
• Strong conceptual thinking combined with outstanding executional craft
• Deep understanding of typography, color, layout, and digital design systems
• Expertise in Figma and component-based design workflows
• Experience translating established brand systems into engaging digital experiences
• Ability to create highly polished work suitable for both client presentation and development handoff
• Strong understanding of responsive design and modern digital experiences
• Motion storyboarding experience and understanding of interaction design principles
• Prototyping skills are a plus
• Experience using AI tools, including prompting for generative image and video creation, is a plus

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.
• We will support you in taking family leave and offer significant paid maternity and paternity leave.
• We will actively encourage you to take 25 days of holiday per year, in addition to bank holidays and a studio closure between Christmas and New Year.
• We offer YCN access and fund relevant training opportunities for any employee looking to develop themselves and their 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.

About Koto

We’re optimists building brand and digital for the most impactful companies of today and the founders defining tomorrow.