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Program Manager (Rain Focus & Event Management)

Akidev CorporationMenlo Park, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 13, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This on-site Program Manager role offers a fantastic opportunity to lead a critical platform transition, driving significant operational improvements and gaining expertise in event management technology. If you excel at cross-functional collaboration, change management, and have a knack for enabling users, you'll thrive in this impactful position.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
On Site
Location
Menlo Park, CA, United States
Posted
22 hours ago

Job Description

Start/End Dates: 11/23/2026 - 2/11/2027
Tax Work Location: US - Remote (open to onsite Menlo Park or NYC)
Job Title: Program Management - Program Manager III
Summary:
Drive adoption and change management for  transition to Rain Focus as the events platform. Partner across marketing, events, and vendor teams to onboard users, build enablement, stand up a sustainable support model, and migrate off prior platforms.
Job Responsibilities:
Own the change enablement plan for the Rain Focus rollout: stakeholder mapping, adoption milestones, and a communications cadence across impacted marketing and events teams - Build and deliver enablement: training sessions, office hours, quick-start guides, and role-based documentation for event builders, admins, and requesters - Partner with cross-functional teams to lead the migration from prior event platforms (Splash, Cvent) to Rain Focus, including workflow mapping and template and config parity - Serve as the primary point of contact between stakeholders and the Rain Focus vendor team; triage enablement workstreams - Identify and track adoption and enablement KPIs (active users, event volume, time to launch, support ticket trends), using data to target improvements - Gather and prioritize feature requests and requirements; communicate tradeoffs, roadblocks, and status concisely to stakeholders and leadership - Capture and maintain a knowledge base of processes, runbooks, and FAQs to sustain the platform after transition
Must Have Skills
Hands-on experience administering or enabling event management platforms, specifically
Experience with Rainfocus
Demonstrated experience leading tool adoption or platform migrations across cross-functional teams
Experience defining and tracking metrics and running programs to improve operational performance
Experience with Splast or Cvent
Strong stakeholder communication, documentation, and training delivery skills Enablement/Change Management experience
Training experience Marketing, specifically with events experience
Education/Experience:
5+ years of experience in change management, enablement, marketing or
5+ events operations, or program management
BA/BS degree in Marketing or Communications, nice to have but not a requirement.

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