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# Junior Designer at KOHO

- **Company:** KOHO
- **Location:** Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/koho/c92880e5-aad9-4fe1-8eb8-ba2785061246

## Job description

## About KOHO

We’re on a mission to make financial services better for every Canadian. That means no hidden fees, no predatory interest rates - just financial products designed to help our users spend smart, save more, and build real wealth. We’re a performance organization with a strong heart: we care deeply about outcomes, and everything ties back to our mission - to financially empower a generation of Canadians. At KOHO, we’re not your average 9-5. We believe real impact comes from people who are trusted, empowered, and supported to do their best work - without sacrificing their lives to do it. We prioritize work-life integration, not just work-life balance. That means asynchronous collaboration, flexible hours, and a remote-first setup built around autonomy and high trust. KOHO is entering its next chapter - leaner, smarter, more AI-integrated. We’re building for impact, not bureaucracy. If you thrive in environments that value clarity, ownership, and bold thinking, you’ll fit right in.

## About the Role

We’re looking for a Junior Designer to join our team, working remotely from anywhere in Canada. In this role, you’ll support the execution of compelling brand design and advertising communications across static and motion-based mediums. You’re a creative designer with a strong foundation in brand systems, visual storytelling, and executional craft—comfortable translating complex ideas into engaging visuals and layouts. You bring a strong eye for detail, a passion for evolving brands, and the ability to think holistically across touchpoints.

## Responsibilities

- Design and execute compelling creative for brand campaigns and always-on channels, including social, dotcom, email, display advertising, and motion.
- Support creative studio members with production design across creative versioning, copy updates, translation versioning, and other production-oriented design tasks, with a primary focus on static or digital formats. Motion experience is welcome.
- Uphold high standards of craft, design excellence, and mistake-free production assets at all required sizes and formats across marketing channels.
- Help uphold KOHO’s brand identity, ensuring consistency, clarity, and craft across all touchpoints.
- Stay ahead of brand and motion design trends, applying best practices to keep KOHO’s brand fresh, expressive, and relevant.
- Explore and integrate AI tools, design and motion systems to improve efficiency, experimentation, and creative output.
- Continuously experiment with new tools, techniques, and workflows to elevate craft and scale creative impact.
- Help evolve a collaborative, feedback-driven design culture that encourages knowledge sharing and alignment.

## Requirements

- 1+ years of experience in brand design and/or marketing design, ideally within fintech, tech, or consumer brands
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in design
- Strong portfolio demonstrating brand systems thinking, visual craft, attention to detail, and fundamentals
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, email building tools & AI Tools (such as Flora, Weavy, Midjourney, etc..)
- A growing understanding of motion principles and systems (timing, easing, transitions)

The budgeted salary range for this role is $70,000-80,000 CAD / year. At KOHO, we are dedicated to providing pay transparency to all candidates. Compensation at KOHO is determined through various factors including but not limited to: comparable salary market data within Canada, technical skill assessment, a holistic view of previous work history, and internal pay equity with other KOHO team members.

Description de poste en français À propos du poste Nous sommes à la recherche d’un ou d’une designer junior pour se joindre à notre équipe, en télétravail partout au Canada. Dans ce rôle, vous contribuerez à la réalisation de communications de marque et publicitaires percutantes, en formats statiques et animés. Vous êtes une personne créative qui a de solides bases en systèmes de marque, en narration visuelle et en qualité d’exécution, et vous savez traduire des idées complexes en visuels et en mises en page attrayants. Vous avez le souci du détail et la passion de faire évoluer les marques. Vous avez aussi une vision globale de l’ensemble des points de contact. Responsabilités

- Concevoir et réaliser des créations percutantes pour les campagnes de marque et les canaux permanents, notamment les médias sociaux, le site Web, les courriels, les bannières publicitaires et l’animation.
- Soutenir les membres du studio de création dans les tâches de production : déclinaisons créatives, mises à jour de textes, versions traduites et autres tâches de design de production, principalement pour les formats statiques ou numériques. Une expérience en animation est un atout.
- Maintenir des normes élevées de qualité d’exécution et d’excellence en design, et livrer des fichiers de production sans erreur dans toutes les tailles et tous les formats requis pour les canaux marketing.
- Contribuer à préserver l’identité de marque de KOHO en assurant la cohérence, la clarté et la qualité d’exécution à tous les points de contact.
- Rester à l’affût des tendances en design de marque et en motion design, et appliquer les pratiques exemplaires pour que la marque KOHO demeure fraîche, expressive et pertinente.
- Explorer et intégrer des outils d’IA ainsi que des systèmes de design et d’animation afin d’améliorer l’efficacité, l’expérimentation et la production créative.
- Expérimenter continuellement de nouveaux outils, techniques et méthodes de travail pour rehausser la qualité d’exécution et accroître l’impact créatif à grande échelle.
- Contribuer à faire évoluer une culture de design collaborative, axée sur la rétroaction, qui favorise le partage des connaissances et la cohésion.

Exigences

- Au moins 1 an d’expérience en design de marque ou en design marketing, idéalement dans le secteur des technologies financières, des technologies ou des marques grand public
- Baccalauréat en design (ou expérience équivalente)
- Solide portfolio démontrant une réflexion axée sur les systèmes de marque, une maîtrise visuelle, le souci du détail et une bonne connaissance des fondements
- Capacité à gérer plusieurs projets et priorités dans un environnement au rythme soutenu
- Excellentes aptitudes en communication et en collaboration
- Maîtrise de Figma, de la suite Adobe Creative, d’outils de création de courriels et d’outils d’IA (comme Flora, Weavy, Midjourney, etc.)
- Compréhension croissante des principes et des systèmes d’animation (rythme, accélération et décélération, transitions)

Rémunération L’échelle salariale prévue pour ce poste se situe entre 70 000 $ et 80 000 $ CA par année. Chez KOHO, nous nous engageons à assurer la transparence salariale auprès de toutes les personnes candidates. La rémunération chez KOHO est déterminée selon divers facteurs, notamment, sans s’y limiter : les données comparables du marché salarial au Canada, l’évaluation des compétences techniques, une vision globale du parcours professionnel et l’équité salariale interne avec les autres membres de l’équipe KOHO. KOHO is for builders.

If you’re energized by challenge, motivated by mission, and want to be part of a team that punches above its weight - we want to hear from you.

The KOHO culture is one of collaboration, creativity, and diverse perspectives. We are committed to building and fostering an inclusive, accessible environment for everyone. If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding accessibility needs, please contact peopleaccessibility@koho.ca and the People and Culture team will be happy to help.

AI Disclosure: KOHO uses artificial intelligence (AI) in certain aspects of its recruitment process to screen, assess, or select applicants. For any questions or concerns, please contact us at talent@koho.ca.

Note: this posting is for an existing vacancy that we are seeking to fill.

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## About KOHO

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: KOHO is a Canadian fintech company that provides a mobile-first spending, saving, credit-building, and investing platform to help Canadians achieve financial progress.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Daniel Eberhard (CEO), Jonathan Belanger, Laurent Crenier

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Fintech / Digital Banking / Consumer Finance
- **Target customers**: B2C – Canadian consumers, from students to high-earners, seeking an alternative to traditional banks.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To build better financial solutions for all Canadians, providing open, intuitive products designed to help them live a better life. [koho.ca](https://www.koho.ca/about/)

## Products & Services
- **KOHO Spending Account**: A digital spending account with a Mastercard (physical or virtual) offering up to 2% cash back on everyday purchases. Includes real-time transaction notifications, budgeting tools, and no hidden fees.
- **KOHO Savings**: High-interest savings options with up to 3.5% interest on balances (funds held in trust with CDIC member institutions).
- **KOHO Credit Building**: A feature that allows users to build their credit history by reporting on-time payments to credit bureaus (Equifax and TransUnion).
- **KOHO Borrow**: A line of credit and overdraft protection feature for users who need access to extra cash.
- **KOHO Crypto Trading**: A feature enabling users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies within the app.
- **KOHO Everything Account**: A premium subscription plan (with a free 30-day trial) that bundles all features, including higher cashback, higher interest, and more benefits.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (last reported at ~$250M CAD valuation in 2021 per news reports, but current figure is not confirmed).
- **Key Metric**: Over **2.5 million** happy customers (as of 2025). [koho.ca](https://www.koho.ca/)
- **Total Funding**: Over **$230 million CAD** raised (including debt and equity).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Drive Capital, Portag3 Ventures, TTV Capital, HOOPP (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan), Round13 Capital, BDC Capital. Partnered with Mastercard. [koho.ca](https://www.koho.ca/about/)
- **Growth Signals**: Rated **#1 Canadian Financial App** (4.8 stars on the App Store). Strong employee engagement scores (4.3/5 overall in H2 2025). [koho.ca](https://www.koho.ca/culture/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **User-First Design**: A genuinely mobile-first, fee-free banking alternative that prioritizes user experience over hidden fees.
- **All-in-One Platform**: Combines spending, saving, credit, borrowing, and investing in a single app, reducing the need for multiple banking relationships.
- **Trust & Security**: Employs 256-bit encryption (bank-grade security) and holds savings funds in trust with CDIC member institutions.
- **Strong Canadian Brand**: Deeply rooted in the Canadian market with a mission that resonates locally, differentiating it from US-based neobanks.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product Expansion**: Continuing to add new features (e.g., crypto trading, credit building) to become a comprehensive financial hub.
- **User Growth**: Scaling beyond 2.5 million users while maintaining high app ratings and customer satisfaction.
- **Profitability Path**: Likely focused on unit economics and sustainable growth, having raised significant funding and now expanding revenue through subscription plans and lending.
- **Remote-First Culture**: Fully remote environment, allowing hiring across Canada and reducing office overhead.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Mission**: Purpose-driven work with a clear mission to help Canadians make financial progress. High employee engagement scores (4.3/5 overall in H2 2025) and strong scores on Mission (4.6) and Belonging (4.5). [koho.ca](https://www.koho.ca/culture/)
- **Remote-First**: Fully remote company – work from anywhere in Canada. Culture is built on shared ownership and high standards, not ping-pong tables.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Competitive salary, stock options, annual merit increases, holiday bonus, generous PTO, Health & Lifestyle spending accounts, $1,000 remote office setup budget, $5,000 referral bonus, and a free KOHO Everything account. [koho.ca](https://www.koho.ca/culture/)
- **Growth & Development**: $2,000 annual training allowance, in-house coaching program, leadership development program, internal mobility, and regular feedback on performance.
- **Values-Driven**: Emphasizes "User First," "Dynamism" (speed and sound judgment), "Warmth" (openness and candor), "Craft" (pursuit of excellence), and "Anti-Cynical" / "Anti-Complacent" attitudes. [koho.ca](https://www.koho.ca/culture/)

## Sources
1. [koho.ca](https://www.koho.ca/) – Official website (product features, customer count, app rating)
2. [koho.ca/about](https://www.koho.ca/about/) – About page (mission, investors, partners)
3. [koho.ca/culture](https://www.koho.ca/culture/) – Culture page (values, benefits, employee engagement scores)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/koho](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/koho) – Careers page (open roles)
5. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/koho) – Funding history and investors (for total funding figure)
6. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/11/koho-raises-86m/) – 2021 funding round news (for valuation context)

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