Popping-in?

Our studio is filled with light and music.
There are multiple meeting rooms, a well stocked kitchen, and an indoor garden (with fishpond). Talk to us about access needs, environmental factors and any accommodations we might make to enhance your visit. Pop-in for tea and stay to use a spare desk for as long as you need.

11 Greenwich Centre Business Park,
53 Norman Road, Greenwich
London SE10 9QF

Cog is a Certified B Corporation

Public transport

We’re next to Greenwich train and DLR station. We have a door right on the concourse but it’s different to our postal address.

From Greenwich rail platform

This video shows the route to take from the train that will arrive at Greenwich rail station from London Bridge. There's a gentle slope next to the staircase.

From Greenwich DLR station

This video shows the route to take from the DLR that will arrive at Greenwich DLR station from Bank. There's a lift at the platform level if that's useful.

By car

If you have to come by car, we have a couple of parking spaces. We have a charging point that you are welcome to use if you have an electric car. Call ahead and we'll make sure the spaces are free. Use our postcode (SE10 9QF) to guide you in.

Get in touch

We’d love to hear from you. Use whichever medium works best for you.

11 Greenwich Centre Business Park,
53 Norman Road, Greenwich
London SE10 9QF

Cog is a Certified B Corporation

New project enquiry

It's exciting to chat about potential new projects. We don't have a ‘sales’ team or a form to fill in. Call us or give us a little detail via email and we'll get straight back to you.

enquiry@cogdesign.com

Website support

If you're a client then you'll be best served by calling us or contacting us via Basecamp, otherwise you can use this dedicated email that reaches all of the digital team.

digital@cogdesign.com

Finance questions

This email hits the inboxes of the people who deal with our bookkeeping and finances.

accounts@cogdesign.com

Just want a chat?

Sometimes enquiries don't fall neatly under a heading, do they?

hello@cogdesign.com

Cultural Calendar

A round-up of recommendations and reviews, sent on the first Friday of each month, topped-off with a commissioned image from a talented new illustrator. Sign-up and tell your friends.

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Cog News

An irregular update of activity from our studio. Showing off about great new projects, announcements, job opportunities, that sort of thing. Sign-up and tell your friends.

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Hiring: Studio Manager

Hiring: Studio Manager

Be a vital part of our team, creating and managing the environment where we all thrive. You’ll be in charge of our admin, from the day-to-day bookkeeping to arranging our monthly cultural outings.

Download full job description.

Overview

We are looking for someone who enjoys working in a team, creating and managing the environment where we all thrive. 

This is a busy multi-faceted role with many regular tasks alongside the need to take on wider projects and to deal with problems and opportunities as they arise. 

You’ll need to juggle many tasks whilst maintaining a cheerful and helpful approach to clients, colleagues and suppliers. 

This is a job that you can make your own and a fantastic opportunity to learn and develop. We are looking for someone to exceed our expectations and challenge our preconceptions.

We can imagine the role stretching in all sorts of directions, to suit your interests and skills. Or it might suit someone who just loves the day-to-day admin of a studio.

Headline details

Salary: around £25K – £28K

We’re genuinely open to a discussion if you feel you are worth more, or if you feel you’d need to work up to this level.

Location: hybrid 

We are a team. Some work fully or partly remotely but most enjoy the collective culture of our studio in Greenwich, London. 

This role is to manage many studio-based activities; you will need to be in the studio to do that. Minimum of Mon – Wed in our studio in Greenwich, plus other days when our team need studio-based support

Flexible hours

7.5hrs per day, plus an hour’s lunch.
Core hours are 10:00 – 16:00, weekdays (so people can start at 7:30 and work ‘til 16:00, or start at 10:00 and work ‘til 18:30; and anything in between).

Leave

We offer 25 days of annual paid leave (plus bank holidays) which increases after you’ve been here two years. 

Plus: you can also buy or sell up to five days each calendar year. 

How to apply: write (don’t send a CV)

We want to know about you not where you lived or went to school. Write to us about why you’d be the ideal fit for our team. 

Include examples of why you will be the perfect fit and why you’d be interested in working here. 

Apply by: 11am, Monday 6th February

Email opportunity@cogdesign.com
We’ve got work to get on with straight away. But we’ll wait for the right person. 

Initial interviews will be via Zoom.
We will ask for your CV after that, and may conduct second round interviews in person at our studio.

Additional things that mark us out: 

  • We’re a Certified B Corp: we have a proven record meeting the highest standards of social and environmental impact 
  • You’ll always be treated with respect and empathy. You’ll work with your manager to keep learning in ways that suit you
  • Funded monthly cultural outing with the team – in person (sometimes remote)
  • Monthly breakfast briefings with leading figures from the sector
  • Regular training sessions delivered by team members and guests
  • Membership of the Arts Marketing Association with access to online resources
  • Membership of the Typographic Circle with discounted event tickets
  • Annual team discussion days – where we celebrate the past and play an active part in planning your future
  • Occasional team dinners
  • Recruitment referral bonus
  • Cycle to work scheme 
  • Travelcard loans (interest free)
  • Free tickets and opportunities to attend shows and client events
  • A well stocked kitchen with cupboards full of fancy teas, coffee and biscuits
  • The world’s best portfolio of the nicest arts clients

Main areas of work

Maintaining our studio

You’ll be in charge of maintaining our working environment or finding the right suppliers to do so. 

You’ll be involved or in charge of everything from feeding the fish to backing-up the server and providing IT troubleshooting.

You’ll oversee our fire alarm system and be our first aid contact; and you’ll keep our kitchen cupboards stocked with tea and biscuits.

You’ll always be seeking new ways to make our work and our studio more environmentally sustainable.

Bookkeeping/invoicing

You will need to be scrupulous in all areas of bookkeeping and invoicing, liaising with our Director to ensure that we keep accurate records, pay all invoices within a week of receiving them, and charge fairly and promptly for all our work.

Managing systems

As a busy studio, it’s important that we have efficient and effective procedures and systems in place. It will be your job to follow, champion, maintain and constantly improve upon those systems, and document those improvements.

People focused

This is a people focused role. 

We’re a team, we work hard, we’re passionate about what we do and we are honest and fair in the way we do it; we want to work with people who share these values.

You’ll be involved in lots of areas of people management, from organising our monthly cultural outings to helping us remember to celebrate milestones and birthdays.

You’ll be organising activities including our monthly cultural outings, Xmas meal and annual team discussion days. 

Liaising with clients

Excellent client relationships are vital to our success. You’ll be in the front-line, answering the phone, greeting guests, contacting clients, sending out welcome packs, and setting-up meetings etc. 

Liaising with suppliers

We work hard to make sure we get the best value from all of our suppliers (not just the cheapest). It will be your job to negotiate prices, nurture relationships and manage specific tasks. 

Championing our values 

Like everyone in the Cog team, you’ll be an advocate for our values as a Registered B Corporation, especially around Sustainability, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging.

Qualities

We’re looking for someone who can show us they’d be a great addition to our team. That probably means they can demonstrate the following: 

  • Organised with a meticulous eye for detail
  • Ability to manage concurrent projects
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • Numerate with experience in bookkeeping and purchasing
  • Comfortable following existing (written)instructions when needed, and using your own initiative when appropriate
  • An understanding of when to escalate and when to use initiative
  • Positive attitude and energetic approach to working in a team. A self-starter with a desire to constantly improve and develop
  • Interest in the work of Cog and our clients
  • Additionally some of the following qualities would be useful:
  • Experience of working in a creative office/studio environment
  • A knowledge and experience of working in the arts, cultural and heritage sectors
  • Knowledge and experience of using Harvest (project management and time-tracking), Xero (accounts), Google Apps for Business and Adobe Creative Cloud
  • IT knowledge and ability to troubleshoot problems