LONDON / FULL-TIME POSITION / NO VISA SPONSORSHIP

At Rainmaking, our mission is to realise the massive entrepreneurial potential at the crossover between the corporate & startup worlds. We believe the greatest value can be unlocked by combining the scale strengths and deep domain knowledge of corporates with the entrepreneurial execution of startups.

We help corporations embed an entrepreneurial culture. We train teams with practical entrepreneurial skills. We help companies to meaningfully engage with startups. And, we partner to collaboratively build digital products, and launch new ventures, startup-style. We do this through 3 offerings:

• Venture Strategy: Defining investment and innovation thesis aligned with business priorities and opportunity areas for corporates to build/buy/partner within.
• Venture Partnering: Supporting large corporates in forming value-add partnerships with (or acquiring) successful startups, leveraging our in-house accelerator brand, StartupBootcamp, and angel investment network, Raspberry Ventures. For example, the IKEA x TaskRabbit acquisition was the result of a Rainmaking-powered IKEA Bootcamp project.
• Venture Building: Where existing offers don’t exist, helping corporates create new products by launching new ventures from scratch on their behalf. Check out Wylly, which we launched in partnership with BNP Paribas in October 2022.

Rainmaking has partnered with over 100 Fortune 500 companies, delivering positive change through entrepreneurship and bringing startups and corporates together to build and scale new businesses. During which, Rainmaking has built, invested, and accelerated 1,200+ ventures, including the world’s largest industry-focused accelerator programme, Startupbootcamp.

Rainmaking has 11 offices across the globe with a global team of 150+ entrepreneurs, strategists, product experts, program teams and startup experts.

The role

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.

We are looking for a self-starter with a creative mindset to design future offerings and create impact through technology and innovation. We support a range of projects from early-stage concept design through to production. So, as a designer, you might not need to be expert in any one area, but must be ready to have a go at many things!

The role is based in London. We work in a hybrid set-up with at least 2 days a week in the office (Central London).

Your responsibilities

• Represent design and inject creativity into our venture build and partnering work and processes
• Work closely with product teams to build and create visual and experiential assets that facilitate learning with potential customers, and help to pitch/sell the vision to investors and partners
• Hold design workshops and meetings, to gain input from colleagues and clients into your designs and creations
• Conduct customer testing / research and hold user testing workshops / meetings to facilitate learning for you and colleagues
• Run online experiments to validate the attractiveness of propositions and ideas to target customers