Lead UX Designer

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 4,800 employees and ~22,000 customers worldwide, including 53% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, Cvent delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for marketers and event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business. Our technology brings millions of people together at events around the world. In short, we’re transforming the meetings and events industry through innovative technology that powers the human connection.

The DNA of Cvent is our people, and our culture has an emphasis on fostering intrapreneurship – a system that encourages Cventers to think and act like individual entrepreneurs and empowers them to take action, embrace risk, and make decisions as if they had founded the company themselves. At Cvent, we value the diverse perspectives that each individual brings. Whether working with a team of colleagues or with clients, we ensure that we foster a culture that celebrates differences and builds on shared connections.

About the role:

Product designers live at the intersection of business, technology and human values. They collaborate directly with design researchers, business analysts, content writers, visual designers, developers and other stakeholders to develop thoughtful solutions, taking business needs, technological capabilities, and user feedback into account.

At Cvent, that philosophy translates into creating the best experience for anyone who plans and attends meetings and events. We’re looking for talented and passionate designers to help shape the future of the event industry. We want to see your work, how you think through problems and what design principles guide your process. When applying, please provide a link to your online portfolio or send it as a PDF.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Understand the complex problems our customers face and how Cvent's products work to solve them.
• Collaborate with researchers, product managers, developers, content writers and other stakeholders to drive the experience of our applications.
• Design intuitive, modern, accessible products that are consistent with platform-level standards.
• Create detailed workflows, information hierarchies, wireframes, mockups, prototypes and other UX deliverables.
• Gather feedback and iterate on your designs as needed.
• Work with engineers in an agile environment to ensure designs are implemented as intended.

What You Will Need for this Position:

• 6.to 9 Years of relevant experience
• Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Design with related field or equivalent work experience. Master’s degree in HCI, Design or a related field or equivalent work experience is a plus.
• Expert in design, presentation, and prototyping tools (e.g., Adobe Suite, Sketch and InVision)
• Good understanding of the capabilities of HTML, CSS, and JS
• An understanding of user centered methodologies.
• Deep understanding of responsive and adaptive design approaches for mobile

Must Haves:

• Design: Strategy & Vision Presentation | User Flows | Concept Sketches | Wireframe & Mockups with Sketch | Heuristic Evaluation | Design System
• Prototyping: Rapid Prototyping using InVision and principal
• Research: Data Analysis | Task Analysis & persona hypothesis | A/B testing & experiments
• Collaboration: Facilitating design critique | Self-starter | Flexible | Communicative