Highlights
- Base Salary: €4,100 - €5,200
- Location: Portugal Remote
- Stock options
- Languages: Fluent in Russian and English
About Fundraise Up
We’re Fundraise Up - a global fundraising platform built to make donating to nonprofits fast, seamless, and accessible to all. Every month, our technology powers tens of millions of dollars in donations across the globe. We focus on innovation that directly impacts results: faster load times, higher conversion rates, global payment support, and accessibility-first design.
Our platform is trusted by many of the world’s leading nonprofits, including UNICEF, the Alzheimer’s Association, and a wide range of global NGOs. With a 4.9/5 rating across top software review platforms, we’re recognized not just for our impact - but for the quality of the product we deliver.
A Truly Global Product
We operate in the enterprise segment, serving nonprofit organizations across North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Europe.
We’re building a large and complex product ecosystem that serves nonprofits, donors, and partners around the world. The platform includes a modern checkout experience and customizable widgets (each a standalone SPA), donor, organization, and partner portals, admin tools, and several internal apps.
The Team
We are a distributed team of 160+ product professionals. Our team members are mainly based across Spain, Poland, Portugal, Georgia, Armenia, Serbia, Turkey, and Cyprus.
Despite our scale, we operate like a focused team - where every task matters and every voice is heard. We value thoughtful collaboration, strong engineering practices, and a product mindset.
About the role
Fundraise Up is building high-trust donation and fundraising experiences that help nonprofits grow their impact. We’re looking for a UX Researcher to join our Product Research Team and raise the quality, speed, and decision-making power of research across the product.
This role combines classic UX research and Product Discovery: new markets, segments, and product opportunities. You will work across both B2C and B2B contexts: donor-facing experiences (B2C) and nonprofit/org-facing workflows (B2B).
What You'll Do
- Take a research initiative from the quarterly plan and run it end-to-end: intake brief → write methodology → conduct research → analyse → synthesize → present → push actions.
- Choose the right method: interviews, usability tests, concept tests, surveys, desk research, competitive scans or others — based on uncertainty level, business goals, and timeline.
- Set up the mechanics: access to tools/data, participant scheduling and confirmations, session logistics, note-taking, recording, and documentation — no hand-holding.
- Be the cross-team “glue”: proactively collect hypotheses and context from Sales, Customer Success, Support, Marketing, Analytics, and turn them into testable research questions.
- Stay close to product analytics: monitor dashboards and reports, work with analysts to spot anomalies/drop-offs, form hypotheses, and prioritize what to validate with research.
- Produce outputs people can use immediately: key findings, decisions, trade-offs, risks, and clear recommendations, with supporting evidence (quotes, clips, metrics).
- Keep an internal pulse: regularly review existing research, past studies, competitor insights, and synthesize what’s already known before running something new.
- Be the user best friend: ensure user needs and constraints are represented in product decisions – not just opinions.
Requirements
- Proven experience running research end-to-end with high ownership.
- Strong methodological toolkit and judgment: you can pick the right method for the question, given business goals, timelines, and uncertainty, and explain trade-offs clearly.
- Experience working across both B2C and B2B products and audiences.
- Fluent English — all participants are English-speaking; you moderate and present in English.
- Can work with analytics: read dashboards, spot anomalies/drop-offs, form hypotheses, and validate them via research; PostHog/Tableau is a plus.
- Regularly collect input from Sales, CS, Support, Marketing, Analytics and turn it into testable research questions.
- High research quality bar: structured methodology, and ethical practice.
- Use recruiting platforms and handle logistics yourself: access, scheduling, confirmations, tool setup, etc.
- Use AI tools to speed up ops and synthesis (guides, notes, tagging/themes, survey drafts, summaries) while keeping human judgment and methodological rigor where it matters.
- You don’t need to be a marketer, but you should understand core terms and how they affect research and insights.
- Be the team’s source of new knowledge: run a “research radar” across internal learnings, market/competitor moves, and high-signal UX/product sources, then share regular updates so the team stays current and avoids blind spots.
- Bring exceptional empathy and care for people: our users are nonprofits and donors—people doing good in the world—so you approach participants with respect, sensitivity, and high ethical standards.
Strong plus
- NN/g certifications.
- Academic/scientific research background (graduate/PhD track).
- PostHog / Tableau (or similar analytics tools).
- Productboard (or other insights repository tools).
- Mentoring/teaching (workshops, onboarding, sharing research craft).
Why work with us
- A strong, collaborative product team that owns what it builds
- Clear product vision and access to real customer feedback from global nonprofit leaders
- Flat structure: no politics, just great work with great people
- Transparent company culture-we share how we’re growing, where revenue comes from, and what’s next
- Long-term focus: we offer equity options and value sustained, meaningful contribution
Benefits
- Private medical insurance for the employee and their family
- 22 paid vacation days per year
- Up to 14 paid public holidays per year
- 5 company-paid sick leave days
- English learning courses.
- Relevant professional education.
- Gym or swimming pool.
- Home Office Setup Assistance: the company offers assistance with purchasing furniture (office chair, office desk, monitor) and other items to create a comfortable workspace.
- Co-working.
- Remote working.
- €50 monthly allowance to cover internet and mobile phone expenses
**Please note: All official correspondence from Fundraise Up will exclusively originate from the @fundraiseup.com domain. Exercise caution and ensure the authenticity of emails claiming to be from our company.
