UX Designer (Remote) RainFocus Middle 8h ago

Remote Genie; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

RainFocus is seeking an exceptional UX Designer to join a fast‑growing team focused on shaping product strategy and validating market opportunities. You will partner with product managers and developers to turn insights into evidence and tangible prototypes, from discovery through to production handoff.

The role emphasizes hypothesis testing, cross‑functional collaboration, and owning artifacts that demonstrate market demand beyond purely aesthetic UX deliverables.

Qualifications

• Strong business thinking across markets, buyers, pricing, and ROI.
• Demonstrated rapid prototyping ability, including fluency with AI-assisted building tools.
• Hands-on discovery research experience, comfortable speaking with customers and prospects.
• UX and product design fundamentals with a portfolio or shipped work.
• Product management experience or equivalent: scoping, prioritization, and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Shape ideas into testable bets with stakeholders and executives.
• Lead discovery research with customers and prospects, including interviews and usability sessions.
• Build interactive prototypes and PoCs using AI-assisted tools and handoff to engineering.
• Define success signals for each validation cycle and present recommendations to leadership.
• Lead a small cross-functional pod with defined priorities and rapid readouts.

Skills

Business thinking

Rapid prototyping

Discovery research

UX fundamentals

Product management

Job description

RainFocus, one of the most innovative software companies, is in search of an exceptional UX Designer.

About RainFocus

RainFocus cares about its employees, customers, and the world in which we live. Our rapidly growing team serves Fortune 500 companies like Adobe, Cisco, IBM, Oracle, VMware, and others to prepare and execute in-person, virtual, and hybrid events, across the world. Those events are delivered through our industry-disrupting software platform, with groundbreaking business intelligence, to elevate the attendee experience, streamline event operations, and accelerate marketing results. We are well-funded, growing fast, and building a company that is changing the market — it will be challenging, fun and exciting.

About the Role

You’ll play an important part in the entire product development process, from brainstorming to launch. You’ll be part of a UX team where each designer is responsible for different areas of our product and integrated into individual scrum teams. They work closely with the Product Manager and Developers to create elegant solutions to problems our customers are facing. The product team also includes front‑end developers who share our passion to deliver a great user experience throughout our platform.

What You’ll Do:

Shape ideas into testable bets

Partner with stakeholders and executives to capture strategic ideas and turn them into clear hypotheses

Define the problem, the target customer, the business case, and the evidence that would change our minds

Push back constructively when an idea lacks a clear problem or buyer

Lead discovery research

Plan and run high-volume discovery with customers and prospects, including interviews, workshops, concept tests, and usability sessions

Work with Stakeholders, Sales, and Customer Success to find the right participants quickly

Synthesize findings into short, decision‑ready insights

Build proof‑of‑concept prototypes

Create interactive prototypes, from clickable concepts to functional PoCs, using AI‑assisted tools

Apply sound UX judgment to flows, information architecture, and interaction design

Work with your developer counterpart to draw a clear line between prototype‑grade and production‑ready, and hand off cleanly

Use PoCs to confirm understanding, not to deliver solutions

Validate against the market

Test willingness to adopt and pay, not just whether people like the idea

Define success signals before each validation cycle and track them

Present recommendations to leadership with the evidence behind them

Protect the integrity of the process

Frame every prototype clearly as exploratory so customers never hear a commitment

Work with Sales and Legal on NDAs, disclosure, and expectation‑setting

Keep Sales informed of what you’re learning and what is, and isn’t, safe to say to customers

Lead the pod

Set priorities, rhythm, and working agreements for a small cross‑functional team

Share frequent, brief readouts instead of big‑bang reviews

Build reusable templates, scripts, and prototype patterns that make each cycle faster

What this role does NOT do

Build or customize solutions for a specific customer

Help customers integrate, configure, or implement our software

Make roadmap or delivery commitments based purely on a PoC

Ship production code (engineering reviews and rebuilds PoCs before anything goes to market)

What Success Looks Like:

Success is measured by the quality of the decision, not by whether an idea moves forward. A well‑evidenced “stop” is a win.

Ideas reach a go/no‑go decision in weeks, not quarters

Ideas the business funds are backed by clear problem definitions, working prototypes, and customer proof

Leadership and Sales trust the evidence and understand why ideas advanced or stopped

Fewer fully built features fail to find demand

What You Bring:

Core skills

Strong business thinking: markets, buyers, pricing, and ROI, not just usability

Demonstrated rapid prototyping ability, including fluency with AI‑assisted building tools

Hands‑on discovery research experience and comfort talking directly with customers and prospects, including senior stakeholders

UX and product design fundamentals, with a portfolio or examples of shipped work

Product management experience or equivalent: scoping, prioritization, and stakeholder management

Also valuable

B2B SaaS experience, especially enterprise software

Comfort working in or alongside a live codebase

Experience leading small teams without formal authority

The confidence to tell senior leaders “the evidence doesn’t support this”

How this role is different

From a traditional PM: less roadmap ownership, more hypothesis testing, and you build the artifacts yourself

From a UX Designer: you own the business case and market validation, not just the experience

Location

This remote role can be located anywhere in the United States of America.

Why work at RainFocus?

At RainFocus we delight millions of attendees at large‑scale events by delivering better insights, experiences, and marketing. We were able to pivot our product and services offering in 2020 to continue growing and serving new clients and events.

As a member of the RainFocus team, you will have the opportunity to experience first‑hand the impact of our platform at events around the world. Additionally, RainFocus offers competitive salaries, competitive benefits, 401k, generous PTO, and countless other team building activities.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.