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UX Designer

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Cvent is a leading meetings, events and hospitality technology provider with more than 4,700 employees and nearly 21,000 customers worldwide. Founded in 1999, the company delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business.

UX Product Designer 
 

About Cvent

 

Cvent is the world's leading provider of cloud-based software for meetings and event management. Our product suite includes tools like online event registration, meeting site selection, event management, e-mail marketing and web surveys.

Founded in 1999, we currently have 2,600+ employees and are still growing rapidly. Our headquarters is located outside of DC, in Tyson’s Corner, VA, and we have additional U.S. offices in Portland, OR; Austin, TX; and Atlanta, GA. We’re global, too: we have offices in New Delhi, India; London, England; and New Brunswick, Canada. Cvent has an award-winning culture and has been recognized as one of the best places to work in the DC area annually by various media and news organizations.

 

We’re looking for recent college graduates and talented junior designers who are ready to go pro, contribute to a growing team, and see first-hand the impact that world-class product design can have in the marketplace.

 

Job Description 

Product designers live at the crossroads of empathy and technology. They embrace their users’ points of view to define meaningful problems. researchers, business analysts, writers, visual designers, developers, and countless other stakeholders. They develop thoughtful solutions, taking business needs, technological capabilities, and user feedback into account.

Product Designers live at the intersection of business, technology and human values. Every day, they work to better understand the meaning and impact that a product can have in a person’s life. They collaborate directly with design researchers, business analysts, writers, visual designers, developers, and countless other stakeholders. They invent and refine thoughtful solutions, and measure their success based on how their solutions fulfill or exceed the needs of the business, technological capabilities, and the expectations of the customer.

At Cvent, that philosophy translates into creating the best experience for anyone who plans and attends meetings and events. As a part of our Product Design team, you’ll design new products and improve existing ones. You’ll map workflows, create wireframes, produce prototypes, and participate in user research. You’ll use the latest design tools, but also develop ideas on paper and whiteboards. You’ll work alone and collaborate with a team. You’ll take ownership for your product area, validating your ideas and presenting to senior designers and stakeholders for feedback.

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. Candidates who do not submit a portfolio will not be considered.

 

 

Position Duties

  • Understand the complex problems our customers face, and how Cvent’s products work to solve them
  • Collaborate with researchers, product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to drive the experience of our applications
  • Design intuitive, modern, accessible products that are consistent with platform-level standards
  • Create high-quality workflows, information hierarchies, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and other deliverables
  • Write design specifications, and work with engineers in an Agile environment to ensure designs are implemented as intended
  • Participate in (and learn to lead) design collaboration sessions
  • Write and maintain a UX brief outlining the goals of each project
  • Design with a platform mindset, understanding the relationships between each of Cvent’s products
  • Produce multiple design solutions as you work toward a final design
  • Articulate your thinking as you present your work to senior designers and other stakeholders
  • Gather feedback and iterate on your designs as needed

 

Skills & Requirements

  • The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or a similar related field and has a passion for product design
  • Experience of 1-4 years in design with a focus on software applications
  • A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional design skills and design thinking
  • Expertise in professional design and prototyping tools
  • In-depth understanding of the capabilities of HTML, CSS, and JS
  • The ability and desire to apply their creativity to a variety of projects
  • Sharp critical thinking and problem solving skills
  • Good visual design capacity and/or understanding
  • Practitioner of user-centered design principles
  • Confidence to take criticism productively and defend your designs when necessary
  • Ability to see the big picture, but also pay attention to the details
  • A passion for improving people’s lives through design and technology

 

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Cvent maintains a drug-free workplace

 

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At Cvent we celebrate, support and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment.  We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristics.

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