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KOHO

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

💳 Fintech

🛍️ eCommerce

🏦 Banking

Fintech • eCommerce • Banking

KOHO is a financial technology company that provides Canadians with tools to manage their money effectively and enhance their lifestyle. Offering a single platform, KOHO allows users to spend smarter with a prepaid Mastercard that offers up to 5% cash back, grow their savings with competitive interest rates, facilitate borrowing with easy cash advances, and build credit history. The app also features budgeting tools, payment splitting, and various customizable plans to suit individual needs, emphasizing convenience and financial wellness for its users.

📋 Description

• Define and champion KOHO's multichannel creative vision across campaigns, product storytelling, content, events, and social and be accountable for business outcomes • Concept and create key pieces yourself when the work demands it, you are a "player/coach" • Lead and develop a multidisciplinary creative team, including art directors, designers, copywriters, and producers • Set the creative standard for all work, providing clear direction and feedback across both art direction and copy • Work with product marketing to translate briefs into powerful creative ideas • Oversee photo and video shoots alongside the Studios team and freelance production crews • Brief and manage freelance talent and agency partners during campaign surges • Help establish creative processes, review cadences, and quality standards as the department scales • Present concepts and creative work to senior stakeholders with clarity and conviction • Build the systems, processes, and review structures that enable high-quality creative output at scale • Oversee external agencies, freelancers, production partners, and photo/video shoots as needed • Set art direction and copy direction for campaigns, brand, web, product, video, events, and social

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of experience leading creative teams and organizations in ambitious, fast-paced environments with significant time at agencies or in-house teams that think like agencies • A portfolio that shows conceptual range across both copy and art direction; big ideas that work across mediums • Experience working across the marketing stack, with a solid understanding of the overall marketing department’s objectives (not just creative) • Ability to collaborate with product design to ensure consistency and design cohesiveness • Experience directing video and motion work, not just static and copy • Someone who is actively utilizing AI in their creative process today • Proven ability to direct and elevate writers, art directors and designers • Deep expertise across copywriting, advertising, campaigns, content, and production • Strong creative instincts with a portfolio demonstrating conceptual excellence across multiple channels and mediums • Experience leading multidisciplinary teams, developing talent, and creating environments where creatives can do their best work • Strong organizational and operational skills, with the ability to structure teams, allocate resources, and establish effective ways of working • Executive-level communication and stakeholder management skills • Experience directing video, motion, digital, and integrated campaign work • A strong point of view on culture, storytelling, and brand building

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation & equity • Generous vacation + Wellness days + Flex Days + holiday closure • Remote-first environment + coworking support + yearly all hands retreat • Access to coaching & growth programs • Parental top-up & leave policies • Comprehensive health benefits • Power-up budgets for books, home office setup, phone & internet, AI tools, and professional development