Venture Designer, Rainmaking
No visa sponsorship
2+ days a week in office (Central London)
Corporate innovation firm
Be an early applicant
Corporate innovation firm
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
No visa sponsorship
2+ days a week in office (Central London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help individuals, companies and societies solve big challenges by unleashing the power of entrepreneurship.
Role
Who you are
- You are a great match with our strong and value-driven culture (see below)
- You have a strong UX/UI design background, including rapid wireframing and visual concepting, interactive prototyping in Figma and ideally, the ability to design developer-ready UI (variants, states, tokens, etc)
- You can turn your hand to support graphic design, whether to polish up slides, create diagrams or illustrations, as well as adcepts and landing page designs
- You love getting to know your potential users, can plan and run user research sessions, as well as create and upload assets for testing (e.g. LinkedIn or Facebook ads)
- You have the solid low-code/no-code web development experience on tools such as Weblow or Framer to create landing pages, and are willing to learn how to configure basic analytics to measure clickthrough rate and run A/B testing
- You have experience working in multidisciplinary teams, understanding and interpreting briefs from non-design colleagues, as well as communicating design concepts to non-design audiences
- You can manage your time effectively, assess what requires a “quick and dirty” turnaround or a more polished outcome, communicating your needs and appropriate timelines, managing requests from several workstreams, and sometimes even some side projects
- Curious, driven, with strong willingness to continue learning and develop new skills
- You will have excellent written and spoken English
- You are eligible to live and work in the United Kingdom
- Passionate about tackling complex challenges through technology and innovation
- A self-starter and compassionate leader, with good communication skills, including when presenting concepts to clients, clearly and with the right level of detail
- Comfortable with uncertainty and complexity, ready to “have a go” at a variety of tasks and with a strong willingness to continue to learn and grow
- Enthusiastic team player that enjoys working with and leading different types of people in cross-functional teams and who is willing to help people around you to grow
- We are looking for a self-starter with a creative mindset to design future offerings and create impact through technology and innovation
Desirable
- Past experience in an entrepreneurial environment (working with a start-up or venture builder for example)
- Video editing or animation experience
- Familiarity with design tokens and established design systems
- Innovation or service design experience (ideation workshops and service innovation)
What the job involves
- We are looking for a full-time Venture Designer to join our team
- This is a unique opportunity to join a growing team and help us tackle some of the most pressing and impactful challenges for our clients whilst creating new revenue streams or high return on investment
- You will be working in 3-4 people teams under the direction of an experienced Venture Lead and Venture Director
- You will be the creative muscle in the team - making visual assets, running experiments and testing concepts with customers
Salary benchmarks
Our take
In the current climate of uncertainty, businesses need strong focus more than ever, but it can be difficult for them to know where to prioritise for innovation and growth. Rainmaking provides an array of tools, alongside entrepreneurial experience, to enable companies to address challenges and move towards a portfolio of growth-focussed activity.
Rainmaking was founded by entrepreneurs in 2007, to help build impactful businesses, and is now one of the world’s leading corporate innovation and venture development firms. The company delivers a range of products – from a data-driven approach to identify and execute business opportunities, to venture building for large corporations, to programs that introduce clients to promising startups that match their business objectives.
Rainmaking has partnered with many large corporations to build successful new ventures, contributing to the creation of jobs and a massive raising of funds. The company recently partnered with Barclays for the launch of Rise Start-Up Academy, a digital skills-building accelerator for early-stage FinTech founders, demonstrating its continued support for innovation through entrepreneurship.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Company benefits
- Many opportunities to learn and grow
- Remote-first working culture
- Stock options
- 30 days of holiday
- Annual learning and development budget (£500)
- A diverse and inclusive culture
- Pension contribution
Company values
- Be entrepreneurial: We are entrepreneurs at heart. We love to execute and get our hands dirty. We continue to experiment and are willing to take risks. We are also professionals who know how to go from ideas to results.
- Be kind: Being kind is a key in both daily work and customer relations. We attract people that we sincerely enjoy working with and who treat each other with kindness, respect, and an open mind.
- Be impactful: We measure success by our impact. We aim to combine a business outcome with a positive influence on the world. We partner with like-minded individuals and organisations to achieve impact at scale.
Company HQ
Christianshavn, Copenhagen
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Leadership
Jordan Schlipf
(CEO)Partner and Co-founder of Startupbootcamp. Venture Partner with Vectr Ventures. Former Teaching Fellow at University College London. Previously co-founded Founder Centric, GiftCannon and Nobebop.
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