Senior Brand Strategist

Intro to KOTA

We shape how ambitious brands are seen, trusted, and remembered. We work at the intersection of creative craft, brand clarity, and commercial performance, building brand led web experiences that do far more than look good.

Role

As a Senior Strategist at KOTA, you will lead strategy across our projects. You will uncover insight, shape clear strategic thinking, guide multidisciplinary teams, and help unlock the full creative potential of every brief.

You will work across multiple projects at once and act as the trusted strategic voice for clients and internal teams. You will be the person people turn to for clarity, direction, and confident decision making.

You will bring broad experience across sectors and be comfortable tackling a wide range of strategic challenges with proven outcomes. You will likely have five or more years of professional experience, not necessarily within brand alone.

What you will do

• Lead the brand strategy process across projects for B2B and B2C clients, giving teams clear guidance and direction throughout.
• Plan and lead research, including client workshops, stakeholder interviews, and insight gathering.
• Identify brand challenges, opportunities, and tensions, then shape a strong strategic response.
• Create a compelling, actionable strategy that creative teams can build from.
• Work confidently across brand purpose, brand positioning, value propositions, and brand/product architecture.
• Contribute to new business opportunities, scoping, inputting into proposals, and early project planning.
• Collaborate closely with the design, copywriting, and development teams to ensure strategy lives in the work.
• Work with KOTA directors and marketers to shape our own brand strategy.

What we are looking for

• A focus on clarity over complexity.
• A balance of intuition, intellect, and imagination.
• Natural curiosity and a genuine interest in the world around you.
• A clear and confident point of view.
• A practical, hands on mindset with a strong sense of ownership.
• Confidence working independently and collaboratively.
• Strong design literacy with a deep understanding of brand.
• Experience with leading agencies is a plus.

Opportunity

At KOTA, strategy shapes everything we do. You will have the space to think deeply, challenge briefs, and help create work that moves brands forward in meaningful ways. We believe this hire will be pivotal to the next phase of growth at KOTA.

Benefits

4.5 day week: Finish at 1pm on a Friday

Fully remote + flexible working: Choose where you work from. Change location but just make sure you have a good internet connection. We operate core hours but make your day work for you.

Zero Ego Hiring Policy: We only hire open minded people that will be easy going and of course, talented.

Open Communication: Every team member has a mentor where they will have 1 to 1’s every month. Every quarter you will meet to discuss how things are going.

Great holiday allowance: We offer 20 days + bank holiday as standard. You get your birthday off (if it falls in the week) and you receive an additional day holiday for every years service. We also have a Christmas shut down on top of this. At 5 years we give you a 5 week paid sabbatical.

Yearly trip: Every year we will get our team together for an action packed trip. Focused around team building and fun. Barcelona, San Sebastian, Porto and Athens the last 4 trips. Where next?

Macbook Pro: You will work from the best equipment giving you the platform to do the highest quality work.